AWS Backup vs. Azure Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Backup
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service from AWS, designed to make it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises using the AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup, users can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
$0.01
per GB per month
Azure Backup
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Backup is a cloud backup service.
$5
Pricing
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Editions & Modules
Backup Storage - Cold Storage
$0.01
per GB per month
Restore - Warm Storage
$0.02
per GB per month
Restore - Cold Storage
$0.03
per GB per month
Backup Storage - Warm Storage
$0.095
per GB per month
Restore - Item-Level Restore
$0.50
per request
Storage in GB/Month
$0.0224 to $0.0569
per GB
Backup Instance <50GB
$5.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB
$10.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance Instance is > 500 GB
$10 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Considered Both Products
AWS Backup
Chose AWS Backup
AWS Backup is easy to use and is recommended by the clients and our organization.
Azure Backup
Chose Azure Backup
Cost and SLA were important [in our] decision to prefer Azure Backup over others. The customization of existing policy with an archive of data was not available in competitors so we had preferred Azure Backup.
Features
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
8.9
6 Ratings
3% above category average
Azure Backup
-
Ratings
Management dashboard8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options7.26 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
7.9
3 Ratings
1% below category average
Azure Backup
-
Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
7.9
3 Ratings
10% below category average
Azure Backup
-
Ratings
SaaS Product Integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
-
Ratings
Azure Backup
8.7
13 Ratings
4% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
File search00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
-
Ratings
Azure Backup
9.0
13 Ratings
4% above category average
User and role management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
File organization00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Device management00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
-
Ratings
Azure Backup
8.0
13 Ratings
7% below category average
Performance00 Ratings8.513 Ratings
Reliability00 Ratings8.513 Ratings
Storage Reports00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(12 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(5 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(4 ratings)
9.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
There is a cost involved with data retrieval. AWS Backup is truly that, a backup. If you need to access this data on a regular basis, there are better options out there. For long term, just in case incremental backups, AWS [Backup] checks all the boxes. Just set it up, start your backups, and rest assured your data is safe.
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Microsoft
Azure Backup is suitable for companies of various sizes, with varying amounts of data. The cost of the investment should be thought out carefully so that there are no bad surprises with unnecessary files going to Azure Backup. The interface is friendly and easy to configure and it does not require your company to have a backup expert. It is highly recommended for companies with smaller number of servers and better if the servers are already running in an Azure environment.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Centralized management - single pane of glass to manage backups for multiple AWS services.
  • Encryption - integrates with KMS to encrypt backup data at rest and in transit.
  • Cross Account management - manage backups across multiple AWS accounts with AWS organizations.
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Microsoft
  • Azure Backup is fast! Coupled with the fact that Microsoft created Azure and Windows - these two operate phenomenally together!
  • Administering the backups inside of Azure is a breeze. The ability to mount, restore entire backups, or recover files, has been made very easy. You do not have to download any media to recover something, you do this all in the cloud and it gets mounted in Microsoft's systems. Making this process less than a quarter of the time you would have spent with your 'other' backup solutions.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Restoring the compute nodes of the cluster should be done always
  • Having the default Roles all the necessary permission, you have to add some depending on your configurations
  • Being able to see the Jobs status in a centralize account more graphically
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Microsoft
  • backup schedule calendar would be cool
  • Backup vaults should ask if you want to send notifications when you first set it up, there have been a couple of times when I noticed a month later that, backup job failures were not configured to send email notifications.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Overall because I can sell it white labeled and use my white labeled software like CloudBerry and the native backup apps on my synology NAS servers to store things in real time and do duplication and disaster recovery directly to it was game changing for my client in the advertising world they are never down now.
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Microsoft
Azure backup is easy to implement, accessible by using the web portal GUI, and has the ability to restore at the file level or the complete VM. We have experienced zero issues with the backup process or performing file-level restorations. We have not restored an entire VM to date.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
Support for AWS Backup is by Amazon itself so it is solid as always. If you have a business or higher level support plan you'll have no trouble getting engineers or other staff on the job to help you with whatever comes up.
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Microsoft
One of the differentials of the solution is the high level of guarantee and support of the Azure Backup solution. Microsoft is a reference in a technology company with a highly trained support team and helps us with any questions or technical problems with the tool. Service is fast and efficient with trained engineers.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
I've tried a lot of different products. Backblaze, at least from a birds-eye view is significantly cheaper than AWS/the rest. Backblaze is a little more simpler, but it's well worth it. Linode also provides backup options, however I'm only familiar with their backup on their VPS's (however you make that plural), which never gave me a problem.
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Microsoft
Azure Backup works on Azure, the most famous of the cloud systems that the whole world has switched to, which is now a very large part of the Microsoft ecosystem that we have been used to using for years. Therefore, it is less tiring to use the additional service of an infrastructure that we already use, even if it is a part of it, which can be easily integrated with existing systems, which is one of the most important issues we IT professionals pay attention to. For this reason, we wanted to swim in familiar waters instead of another brand.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Offsite means a failure at our cloud provider means we can redeploy quickly to another data center or another provider quickly.
  • The cost can't be best.
  • Pay only for what you use. No need to pay for extra data that you don't need.
  • No minimums
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Microsoft
  • It allowed us to have our VMs protected very quickly and with simple implementation.
  • It saved us from taking backups from Azure workloads from the on-prem environment, or even deploying a Backup environment on the cloud.
  • It has a low/'controlled' cost as you "pay-as-you-go."
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