Likelihood to Recommend Overall we are happy with what Acronis is offering us, both as a use and a Value Add Resellers. The fact that there is one portal to onboard customers and select services is exactly what we were looking for. Now we are working on the Multi Tenant version, so we can also White Label Acronis towards our customerbase. We have not yet found any scenario's where Acronis can not offer any benefits. We do hear that the pricing for the storage is often to high versus competition. This applies to the Acronis data center storage, yet also the structure of Workload/per TB combination towards other Cloud vendors. (mainly the 3 largest Hyper Scalers) Compared to other Cloud storage solutions, these cost should be lower, so it will be easier to explain to customers to come and join Acronis in the cloud, instead of doing local back-ups or use solutions like DropBox, BackBlaze, PureStorage, Wasabo Hot Cloud Storage, Cloudian and more.
Read full review We were wanting to prove the concept of a low touch process for quickly spinning up boilerplate AWS environments. We were able to get started quickly and to ensure that the AWS Well-Architected Framework principles were followed - at least upfront - however, we found that for our use case and expertise level it ultimately wasn't a fit. We have the skills on our team to manage more of this on our own. My recommendation would be contingent on what skills are already available on your team: if you can "do it yourself" you might as well so that you don't pay for resources you don't need and you have finer grain control over what's created.
Read full review Pros Local backup to local encrypted and protected hard drives Cloud backups of files, folders, or entire machines Vulnerability assessment of systems Antivirus and content filtering Remote control of systems Integration with Connectwise and other RMM and MSP tools Replacement that's better than Dropbox or Google drive Read full review Easily create new AWS accounts. Easily secure and manage AWS accounts. Landing zone with SSO is a huge win for larger teams. Read full review Cons Better reports with important security information for analyze. The ability to monitor resources like CPU, memory, disks and network activity, and availability. The ability to monitor user activity, very important today because of home working. Endpoint security for IOs and Android, better if it can be an MDM. Read full review The AWS SSO GUI is not very intuitive and determining how to apply policies to users without creating redundant logins has been a challenge. The default guardrails do not fully encompass all the security checks that we needed. There does not appear to be any way to control roles at the IAM level from the control tower account through the GUI. Some features on AWS accounts still require logging into the individual account with the root user and cannot be done from AWS Control Tower. Read full review Usability The Cyber Protect portal is very intuitive and easy to use for anyone with some knowledge of IT systems.
Read full review There is no way to easily close an AWS account whether it was created manually or via the AWS Control Tower. It takes too many steps to close it vs to provision a new AWS account
Read full review Alternatives Considered An organization might choose Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud over
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup for several reasons: Comprehensive Protection: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud offers a more comprehensive solution that covers data protection, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery. If an organization requires an all-in-one solution to manage both backup and security, Acronis is a better fit. Diverse IT Environment: If a business operates in a diverse IT environment that includes physical, virtual, and cloud components, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud's broad platform support makes it more suitable. Enhanced Cybersecurity: Organizations that prioritize advanced cybersecurity features and AI-driven threat detection capabilities might find Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud a more robust solution in this regard.
Read full review Using
AWS Systems Manager and other slightly lower level components has been helpful for us to manage parts of our AWS presence at a more granular level than AWS Control Tower was designed for. It's not at all an apples-to-apples comparison as they solve different use cases, but for us, the use case associated with
AWS Systems Manager was a better fit for our specific needs and skillsets. We did not need everything that AWS Control Tower was doing for us.
Read full review Return on Investment Acronis has helped us grow the total number of endpoints under protection by 500% in the past 2 years Single agent/product has resulted in better overall margins Easier to deploy, easier to support means better onboarding experience Acronis helps us "delight" our customers! Read full review Less time manually deploying accounts which was error prone. Central logging allowed us to have 1 place to view logs. Read full review ScreenShots