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AWS Backup

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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What is AWS Backup?

AWS Backup is a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that simplifies data protection at scale.

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AWS Backup Ratings

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87 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AWS Backup?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Virtual Machine Backup

Analytics

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Replication for High Availability

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Backup Automation

Application Awareness

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Deduplication Implementation

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

AWS Backup Reviews

Raghava s.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Best automated backup solution in market

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

Aws backup ensures automatic backup of projects emails and data periodically making our organisation data available during threats with providing at most security

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to integrate and ability to automate the backups with set time periods

What do you dislike most about this product?

Price could be considered costlier compared to other options in market but can counter with the security it provides

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The control panel and UI can be improved, currently need special training for new users

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

BIMAL F.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Superb backup solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

Using real time analytics and insights, users can monitor, audit, and report on data protection policies and operations with AWS Backup Audit Manager. This feature aids in making sure that organizational and legal standards are met.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

High reliability since it has many data centers

What do you dislike most about this product?

Price is high

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is a good product and suitable for any businesses

Pros

Security Protects
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Vasanth K.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Feb 2025

Backup your data before you get ransomware attack.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

AWS backup is very cost effective cloud backup solution. Hybrid data protection enables servers and VMware to do data backup.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AWS cloud backup has centralized data protection policies which help the user to streamline the data backup policies across the network. AWS Cloud backup helpful in case of any ransomware attack occurred in the organisation. In AWS cloud backup we can do backup based on schedule and create an automatic data backup in the organisation. We can govern a data protection policies and be complaint according to data backup policies.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The customer support need to optimise the response and resolution time and providing a timely deliverables.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

To maintain a CIA triad, cloud backup is one of the essential thing so going for AWS cloud backup would be a nice choice and to be immune against ransomware attack cloud backup should be a must.

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Caring
Helps Innovate

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AWS Backup Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love AWS Backup?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Virtual Machine Backup Automatically discovers and protects VMs as they come online, move, and change. Production VMs are replicated to a secondary data store.

Analytics Built-in real-time and historical reporting and analytics on SLAs, performance, and resource consumption, as well as predictive capabilities to plan & optimize.

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery Onsite backup data is replicated and stored to a public cloud (AWS, Azure). Can also include restore-to-cloud capabilities for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Replication for High Availability Beyond secondary copy backup, the solution also manages replication of primary data host-to-host and site-to-site for live failover and high availability.

Backup Monitoring and Reporting Backup and replication are continually monitored for status and effectiveness. Detailed reporting is available on successful and unsuccessful operations.

Backup Automation Solution automates backup, recovery and remediation tasks using RestAPI and CLI to integrate with 3rd party solutions, reduce cost and enforce standards.

Application Awareness Application consistent backup and granular restore for application data from core applications such as MS SQL, Oracle, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint.

Automated Backup Testing and Verification Goes beyond monitoring whether backup jobs completed by verifying the integrity of data restoration.

Backup of Cloud Based Data In addition to targeting backups to the cloud, the solution also has the capability to back up primary data and services already in the cloud.

Deduplication Implementation Deduplication of redundant data blocks is implemented by the solution. Deduplication can be at source, target, or globally (source and target).

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms Backs up data and system info for non-virtualized systems. Primarily Windows and Linux servers but also, potentially, AIX, Unix and others.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

AWS Backup Reviews

Raghava s.

Best automated backup solution in market

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

BIMAL F.

Superb backup solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vasanth K.

Backup your data before you get ransomware attack.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Virtual Machine Backup

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Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Replication for High Availability

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Backup Automation

Application Awareness

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Backup of Cloud Based Data

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Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

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Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

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Ease of Data Integration

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Ease of Customization

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Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement