Managing Service Accounts

For each data protection and disaster recovery operation performed for an Azure resource, you must specify a service account that has access to the resource and a set of permissions that determine what operations are allowed for the resource.

Particularly, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure uses service accounts to perform the following tasks:

To enumerate resources added to backup policies.

To create snapshots and backups of Azure resources protected by policies.
To create and manage worker instances.
To create and manage backup repositories.
To attach virtual disks to worker instances when performing image-level backup.
To restore Azure VMs, virtual disks, and files and folders from cloud-native snapshots and image-level backups.
To restore Azure SQL databases and Cosmos DB accounts from backups.
To restore files of Azure file shares from cloud-native snapshots.
To create backups of Azure virtual network configurations.
To restore backups of Azure virtual network configurations from backups.

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