Cross-Tenant Restore (CTR) helps organizations establish an independent recovery path by enabling Azure VM backups to be restored into a separate Azure tenant. It strengthens cyber resilience while using the existing backup copy, without requiring customers to maintain and manage duplicate backup data.
Azure update ID: 577117
Published: Oct 28, 2026
Status: In preview
Timeline: October 2026 Preview
Product: Azure Backup
Tag: Management, Microsoft Ignite, Security, Feature
Category: Management and governance, Storage