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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
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Feature Ratings
Backend as a Service
Containers Protection
Physical and Virtual Machines Protection
Backup Monitoring and Reporting
SaaS Protection
Continuous Data Protection
Data Deduplication
Data Encryption
Infrastructure as a Service
On-Prem and Cloud Targets
Backup Verification and Testing
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Quality of Features
Vendor Support
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
AWS Backup Reviews
Vasanth K.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2025
Backup your data before you get ransomware attack.
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Rajat M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Vendor Selection and Purchasing
Submitted Dec 2024
Easy to implement for all team sizes using AWS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?
Centralized automated backup for AWS services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Seamless AWS Service integration
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited third-party application support
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Best for AWS-focused workloads and compliance needs
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Pradip G.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2026
Reliable, easy to manage backup solution for AWS.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?
As per my knowledge and experience on AWS backup service most important differentiate others backup solutions that it is capabilities of integrated with the AWS others ecosystems based on need of solution and provide centralized management for backups across multiple AWS services. And another things I like most about AWS backup that cross-region and cross-account backups that improve disasters recovery by copying backups to other AWS regions or AWS accounts.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As per my knowledge the strongest aspect of AWS backup is its centralized, policy based backups management. This reduces manual efforts, helps maintain consistent back-up policies and make it easier to meet compliance requirements.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Based on my experience I dislike about the AWS backup services is that cost can be difficult to estimate because they depends on backup storage, restore operations cross region copies and data transfer so in short pricing is so complex.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I personal recommend to my friend circle for this product is that choose it is if your workload are primary on AWS and one more thing that test restore regularly because so everyday the dynamic data will be getting change here to check it regularly.
Pros
- Reliable
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
