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Review the following information to understand the differences in feature support between the various backup service offerings.

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Review the following tables to learn of the differences in feature support for IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery when considering an application backup, and Backup policies for VPC instances that are an infrastructure backup.

Comparison by attributes of backup services offered on IBM Cloud
Attributes	IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery	Backup policies for VPC
	Schedule backups for various workloads (view documentation)	Schedule VPC block storage snapshot backups and manage retention (view documentation)
Managed by	IBM	IBM
Centralized billing	Yes	Yes
Management console	IBM Cloud	IBM Cloud
API/CLI provider	IBM Cloud	IBM Cloud
Automation library	Yes	Yes
Application backup	Yes
Infrastructure backup		Yes

Comparison by supported platforms and services of backup services offered on IBM Cloud
Supported platforms and services	IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery	Backup policies for VPC
	Schedule backups for various workloads (view documentation)	Schedule VPC block storage snapshot backups and manage retention (view documentation)
MS SQL on VMware	Yes
OracleDB on VMware	Yes
VPC Block Volumes		Yes
VPC Files Shares		Yes