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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) gives enterprises a managed Kubernetes platform—but persistent storage and data protection often become limiting factors.
Native Azure tools can create bottlenecks:

  • Azure Managed Disks offer fixed capacity and performance tiers
  • Cross-zone and regional protection adds cost and complexity
  • Snapshots and backup lack app consistency and automation
  • Over-provisioning drives up spend
  • Each VM has limits on how many disks it can attach
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Solution

Portworx eliminates the limits of Azure Managed Disks — giving AKS users elastic storage, thin provisioning, and built-in data protection through a single, container-native control plane.

Kubernetes-native storage, performance, and utilization for AKS

Portworx Enterprise virtualizes Azure storage into a single, scalable pool that automatically balances capacity, performance, and protection.

Key benefits:

  • Pool and scale storage across Azure Managed Disks and Pure Cloud Block Store
  • Thin provisioning reduces waste and maximizes efficiency
  • Cross-AZ replication for continuous availability
  • Automated capacity management with zero manual intervention
  • Application I/O control to eliminate noisy neighbors
  • Deploy directly from the Azure Marketplace

Business continuity for AKS workloads

PX-DR delivers zero-RPO synchronous replication and async regional recovery for Kubernetes workloads.

Key benefits:

  • Zero-RPO replication within zones; near-zero across regions
  • Simple, policy-based failover and recovery
  • Continuous DR testing and monitoring
  • Unified protection across AKS, Azure Arc, and hybrid clouds

App-consistent backup and restore for AKS

Portworx Backup protects Kubernetes workloads across AKS clusters with a single, policy-driven platform.

Key benefits:

  • Application-consistent snapshots with no downtime
  • Restore across clusters, namespaces, or regions
  • Integrate with Azure Blob Storage for long-term retention
  • End-to-end encryption and role-based access control

Common use cases

Leading enterprises running critical workloads on AKS choose Portworx to modernize their data strategy and simplify operations.

  • Migrate from VMware or on-prem to AKS with data integrity
  • Protect cloud-native apps with app-consistent backups and DR
  • Enable multi-region replication and cross-cloud resilience
  • Implement ransomware protection and rapid restore workflows
Use Cases
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