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AWS Backup

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.4 /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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Awards & Recognition

AWS Backup won the following awards in the Backup and Availability category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation

2025

6 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2024

AWS Backup Ratings

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88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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+99 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 83

Backup Automation

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Analytics

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Replication for High Availability

Deduplication Implementation

Application Awareness

Integration With Storage Arrays

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

AWS Backup Reviews

Carlos Orlando C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jan 2024

Hard to start but worthit

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

The integration with AWS service and the hybrid options

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The AWS integration, it helps building data lakes and similar data architecture easy

What do you dislike most about this product?

Understanding the product at the start can be difficult

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Stick to the high learning curve if it fits your use case

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing

Punit G.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

An amazing service to manage your backups

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

Once setup correctly, AWS Backup know what to backup, when to backup, till when to keep the backup, where all to copy the backup and when to delete it. And it does all that securely.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Once setup correctly, AWS Backup know what to backup, when to backup, till when to keep the backup, where all to copy the backup and when to delete it. And it does all that securely.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Only missing feature of this is the file explorer restore option. However, in Cloud it is not a very big issue.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is a must have service of AWS to stay compliant and without wasting your time and money on old backup cleanup.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Effective Service

Smruti R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2025

AWS Backup makes archival of snapshot possible

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

1. It provides completely individual backups vault secrets by default keys 2. It provides immutable backups, means once done is done

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It provides live compliance tracking

What do you dislike most about this product?

cost increases as storage data increases to take backup

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is very effective and easy to use

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

AWS Backup Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+99 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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Integration With Storage Arrays Integrates with APIs from major storage vendors (NetApp, HP, Dell EMC) to leverage capabilities in these arrays such as data snapshots and replication.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Carlos Orlando C.

Hard to start but worthit

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Punit G.

An amazing service to manage your backups

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Smruti R.

AWS Backup makes archival of snapshot possible

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Backup Automation

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Analytics

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Replication for High Availability

Deduplication Implementation

Application Awareness

Integration With Storage Arrays

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement