Hybrid cloud based protection for applications and virtual machines

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a cloud computing environment, cause a cloud-based micro-service to:

• register a working environment that is configured to store virtual machine (VM) data for a VM;
• create a policy for the VM, wherein the policy defines a number of copies of a backup of the VM data are to be retained and how often the backup is generated by a management system interfacing with the working environment and the cloud-based microservice;
• store a copy of the backup within a cloud-based storage of the cloud computing environment;
• receive an indication from the management system of a successful execution of a pre-restore operation after unregistering the VM from a VM management system;
• and
• execute a restore operation to restore the backup to the working environment by copying the VM data from the copy of the backup to the working environment.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors of a cloud computing environment;
• and
• instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause a cloud-based micro-service to:
• register a working environment that is configured to store virtual machine (VM) data for a VM;
• create a policy for the VM, wherein the policy defines a number of copies of a backup of the VM data are to be retained and how often the backup is generated by a management system interfacing with the working environment and the cloud-based microservice;
• store a copy of the backup within a cloud-based storage of the cloud computing environment;
• receive an indication from the management system of a successful execution of a pre-restore operation after unregistering the VM from a VM management system;
• and
• execute a restore operation to restore the backup to the working environment by copying the VM data from the copy of the backup to the working environment.