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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Commvault Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ACommvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon S3Commvault Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3Commvault Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon S3Commvault Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    Commvault
    Chose Commvault Cloud
    We switched to Commvault Complete Data Protection.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    55 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    60 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    Features
    Amazon S3Commvault Cloud
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Commvault Cloud
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Commvault Cloud
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Universal recovery8.410 Ratings8.067 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.310 Ratings7.064 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.47 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Business application protection8.57 Ratings7.572 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.210 Ratings5.371 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.14 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.511 Ratings7.559 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.05 Ratings7.575 Ratings
    Snapshots8.67 Ratings7.571 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.011 Ratings6.166 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.610 Ratings7.567 Ratings
    Platform support8.510 Ratings7.067 Ratings
    Retention options9.17 Ratings8.065 Ratings
    Encryption9.58 Ratings7.564 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Commvault Cloud
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon S3Commvault Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    Score8.7 out of 10
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3Commvault Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (77 ratings)
    6.5
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    7.0
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.6
    (52 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3Commvault Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Commvault
    Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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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    Commvault
    • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
    • Improves our Disaster Recovery
    • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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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    Commvault
    • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
    • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
    • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    Commvault
    It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
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    Usability
    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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    Commvault
    Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    Support Rating
    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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    Commvault
    I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
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    In-Person Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Traning is very easy very helpful
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Commvault
    In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Commvault
    • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
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