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AWS Backup

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.3 /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 Enterprise Backup 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

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 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 82

On-Prem and Cloud Targets

100

Backend as a Service

SaaS Protection

Containers Protection

Application Data Consistency

Infrastructure as a Service

Physical and Virtual Machines Protection

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Backup Verification and Testing

Data Deduplication

Application-Aware Processing

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

AWS Backup Reviews

Mayuresh T.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Protect Your Data - AWS Backup

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

AWS Backup offers different ways to recover your data. You can restore data at different levels, like whole volumes, databases, tables, or even individual files. It also allows you to recover data from specific backup instances based on the exact point in time you want to restore from.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AWS Backup works well with other AWS services like AWS IAM, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS CloudFormation. This seamless integration improves security, allows for better tracking of backup activities, and makes it easier to manage backups within your existing AWS workflows.

What do you dislike most about this product?

AWS Backup makes backup management easier, it may not be suitable for all advanced or complex backup needs. In such cases, additional configuration and setup might be required. It's important to assess the complexity of your backup requirements and ensure that AWS Backup can effectively meet your specific needs before implementation.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Before fully implementing AWS Backup, it is recommended to start with a small-scale test called a proof-of-concept (POC) or pilot project. This allows you to try out AWS Backup in a controlled environment to assess how well it performs, how compatible it is with your existing setup, and how easy it is to use.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Effective Service
Inspires Innovation

Henry E.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

Awesome Backup service

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

Using Amazon Backup can make backing up your AWS infrastructure and services easier because it has functionality to support a variety of services. AWS Backup is great for data backup because it solves a lot of data integrity and disaster recovery issues as a centralized backup tool on the Amazon platform

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy of usage and easy backup tasks definition and operation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

So far, so good, it works perfectly for me to back up all I need to backup so for me, there's really nothing to dislike about the product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Any scenario where you need to make backups, this is the product for you. Using Amazon Backup can make backing up cloud workloads easier because it has functionality to support many different services.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Shivam S.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Amazon backup reviews

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

Amazon web service backup is a cloud based software that supplies most storage services and data transfer procedures

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Automate the backup scheduling and backup compliance in very well. Automated retention management is an amazing feature out of the box and Amazon EC2 instance backups helps a lot

What do you dislike most about this product?

The UI could be a little more complete and response time via high email

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's reliability and strong support has been wonderful

Pros

Helps Innovate
Effective Service
Inspires Innovation
Client Friendly Policies

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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

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

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

On-Prem and Cloud Targets Restore workloads to on-prem or cloud targets.

Backend as a Service Vendor manages backup implementation and execution based on your requirements.

SaaS Protection Protects SaaS data and customizations where the SaaS vendor enables appropriate access (e.g., via APIs).

Containers Protection Protects workloads in container environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).

Application Data Consistency Ensure recovered transaction data is in sync across relevant applications.

Infrastructure as a Service Protects IaaS workloads in public cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP).

Physical and Virtual Machines Protection Back up and restore multiple types of physical machines (servers, storage systems, etc.), server platforms (Windows, Linux, HCI, etc.), and VMs (VMware, Hyper-V

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

Backup Verification and Testing Verifies backups (e.g., completion, accuracy, not corrupted) and enables non-disruptive restore testing (e.g., in a non-production environment).

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

Application-Aware Processing Ensure a consistent application state and support granular restore for application data from core applications such as MS SQL, Oracle, MS Exchange, SharePoint

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Mayuresh T.

Protect Your Data - AWS Backup

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Henry E.

Awesome Backup service

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Shivam S.

Amazon backup reviews

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

On-Prem and Cloud Targets

Backend as a Service

SaaS Protection

Containers Protection

Application Data Consistency

Infrastructure as a Service

Physical and Virtual Machines Protection

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Backup Verification and Testing

Data Deduplication

Application-Aware Processing

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement