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articles/backup/backup-support-matrix-mabs-dpm.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: MABS & System Center DPM support matrix
 description: This article summarizes Azure Backup support when you use Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) or System Center DPM to back up on-premises and Azure VM resources.
 ms.service: azure-backup
-ms.date: 07/17/2025
+ms.date: 09/11/2025
 ms.topic: reference
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-mallicka
@@ -56,6 +56,22 @@ For more information:
 --- | --- | ---
 **Back up on-premises machines/workloads** | DPM/MABS protection agent runs on the machines that you want to back up.<br/><br/> The MARS agent on DPM/MABS server.<br/> The minimum version of the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services agent, or Azure Backup agent, required to enable this feature is 2.0.8719.0.  | DPM/MABS must be running on-premises.
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> Backup of virtual machines hosted on public cloud platforms such as Azure VMs or AWS EC2 using DPM/MABS is not supported.
+> 
+> Also, Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) with MABS is supported only for recovery on the same hardware; recovery to different hardware or cloud environments (such as Azure VM or AWS EC2) isn't supported.
+>
+>
+> **Support Matrix**
+>
+> | Scenario | Supported |
+> | --- | --- |
+> | Recover system state after BMR on the same hardware | ✅ Yes |
+> | Recover system state after BMR on different hardware | ❌ No |
+> | Recover system state after non-BMR full restore (same/different hardware) | ❌ No |
+>
+> This limitation is primarily due to the fact that **system state backups contain hardware-dependent information**, making recovery on different environments technically infeasible.
+
 ## Supported deployments
 
 DPM/MABS can be deployed as summarized in the following table.
@@ -223,4 +239,4 @@ Deduplication support for MABS depends on operating system support.
 - [Set up](backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup.md) a MABS server.
 - [Set up DPM](/system-center/dpm/install-dpm).
 - [Back up a SharePoint farm on Azure Stack](backup-mabs-sharepoint-azure-stack.md).
-- [Back up SQL Server on Azure Stack](backup-mabs-sql-azure-stack.md).
+- [Back up SQL Server on Azure Stack](backup-mabs-sql-azure-stack.md).