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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acronis True Image

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAcronis True Image is a backup, cloning, cyber protection and privacy tool suite for home users.N/A

    Amazon S3

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.N/A
    Pricing
    Acronis True ImageAmazon S3
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acronis True ImageAmazon S3
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Acronis True ImageAmazon S3
    Considered Both Products
    Acronis
    Chose Acronis True Image
    I use another backup product for Windows previously but it went out of business and discontinued their support and even stopped the work of running copies of their product. I am using AWS backup. AWS backup is useful for specific files you can store on the cloud. I am using …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    82%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    Features
    Acronis True ImageAmazon S3
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Acronis True Image and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Acronis True Image
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.310 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.47 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings7.610 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.17 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Acronis True Image and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Acronis True Image
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.811 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Acronis True ImageAmazon S3
    Small Businesses
    NetBackup Flex Appliances
    Score10 out of 10
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetBackup Flex Appliances
    Score10 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Acronis True ImageAmazon S3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (19 ratings)
    8.7
    (77 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acronis True ImageAmazon S3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acronis
    Acronis Cyber Protect is great for any small/mid-sized business. The price point makes it attractive to all budgets >$100/year for 5 device deployments. Competitors offer less and charge more! Very happy with the suite of products, and renewals are simple and straightforward as well. I hope they don't change a thing!
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    Amazon AWS
    Amazon S3 is a great service to safely backup your data where redundancy is guaranteed and the cost is fair. We use Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by Amazon S3. Transferring data into Amazon S3 is free but transferring data out has an associated, albeit low, cost per GB. This needs to be kept in mind if you plan on transferring out a lot of data frequently. There may be other cost effective options although Amazon S3 prices are really low per GB. Transferring 150TB would cost approximately $50 per month.
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    Pros
    Acronis
    • Delta backup makes backups super fast of larger files that do not change in its entirety (e.g. VM images, large PSD files)
    • Easy to use (set it and forget it)
    • Rescue media makes it easy to restore backups to different hardware and migrate to other work stations
    • Lots of backup options on the Windows version of ATI
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    • Fantastic developer API, including AWS command line and library utilities.
    • Strong integration with the AWS ecosystem, especially with regards to access permissions.
    • It's astoundingly stable- you can trust it'll stay online and available for anywhere in the world.
    • Its static website hosting feature is a hidden gem-- it provides perhaps the cheapest, most stable, most high-performing static web hosting available in PaaS.
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    Cons
    Acronis
    • Some features have actually become more complicated over the years. One that comes to mind is creating a backup plan that can execute daily to an external USB media that is changed daily (older versions would back up to the, for example, "F" drive regardless of which drive was attached - newer versions identify each drive uniquely, and a backup task created with a given external drive will fail due to the lack of media presence if the drive is replaced).
    • Error messages could be less cryptic.
    • Support turnaround time and live assistance could be faster.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Web console can be very confusing and challenging to use, especially for new users
    • Bucket policies are very flexible, but the composability of the security rules can be very confusing to get right, often leading to security rules in use on buckets other than what you believe they are
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acronis
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    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    Usability
    Acronis
    Protect my system from data loss and also can manage multiple devices via online cloud from any where and also can set Multifactor authentication for more secure login access. Archive any backup which will use less space and we can transfer it to any other space also so it is very easy as server admin to manage acronics utilities
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    Amazon AWS
    It is tricky to get it all set up correctly with policies and getting the IAM settings right. There is also a lot of lifecycle config you can do in terms of moving data to cold/glacier storage. It is also not to be confused with being a OneDrive or SharePoint replacement, they each have their own place in our environment, and S3 is used more by the IT team and accessed by our PHP applications. It is not necessarily used by an average everyday user for storing their pictures or documents, etc.
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    Performance
    Acronis
    Backups run fast and no significant performance issues other than the ones discussed previously.
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    Support Rating
    Acronis
    Beyond a single instance, I haven't had to approach Acronis' support. I needed a new key following the death of my previous workstation, and they rapidly supplied it. I've heard from colleagues that they've quickly answered any questions that've been asked. If I need something, I'll generally frequent FAQ pages first, although Acronis actually has instructional videos to help users get started, which is forward-thinking. Great software that fills a vital niche for Windows systems.
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    Amazon AWS
    AWS has always been quick to resolve any support ticket raised. S3 is no exception. We have only ever used it once to get a clarification regarding the costs involved when data is transferred between S3 and other AWS services or the public internet. We got a response from AWS support team within a day.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acronis
    IDrive is incredibly faster than Acronis on cloud backup. After Acronis' failures on cloud storage I moved to IDrive for peace of mind. IDrive can also do local backups, and either variant of system state, server, outlook, exchange, etc. It does not however have the ability to do a full image of a bitlocked machine like Acronis, so I'm continuing the local imaging with Acronis.
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    Amazon AWS
    Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.
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    Scalability
    Acronis
    The Windows version is generally reliable and only ran into one issue thus far. Restores are easy and there are many features. On MacOS, it's a completely different story. There is significant resource leakage related to the updater app that can bog down part of a CPU core continuously until it is disabled. The mobile backup feature also needs to be disabled via UNIX command line or CPU usage will go up when a mobile device on the same network like an iPad or iPhone's screen is turned on.
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    Return on Investment
    Acronis
    • Peace of mind - knowing that if anything happens to our data, we can recover it.
    • File Versioning has saved us a few times - we can grab prior versions of a particular file if there is a problem.
    • Reasonably priced - there are more comprehensive backup solutions out there, but for online backup, this was the right product for the right price.
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    Amazon AWS
    • It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
    • The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
    • If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of data control, which supports backup in just two clicks, and all data and backup information is displayed in one placeScreenshot of a display of the data that is backed up, the number of backup versions in storage, and how many photos, videos, music and documents that are available to restore.