AWS Backup vs. Azure Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Backup
Score 9.0 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
We use Rubrik for long-term backup archiving & management, and we use AWS backup for short-term backups.
Chose AWS Backup
AWS Backup is already integrated with a lot of its services so is native option to go without needing third-party software.
Chose AWS Backup
AWS Backup is easy to use and is recommended by the clients and our organization.
Chose AWS Backup
The selection process is not final - we are comparing multiple vendors for our backup solution. However, Veeam has been slightly more enticing due to pricing.
Chose AWS Backup
Linode requires a minimum data purchase for their S3 storage solution. While the convenience of being able to mount the drive directly is great, it isn't the best for small amounts of data for our different customers.

I initially tried there other backup solution but they …
Chose AWS Backup
The other method of backups we considered was a scheduled backup of important data to AWS S3 and manual backup of data to a third-party storage (local/other cloud service). It works, but it takes much more time than using AWS Backup. AWS Backup interfaces with AWS services, and …
Chose AWS Backup
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 …
Chose AWS Backup
because its easy to startup on it and also so easy to use, and again its just a one single place for control, create and recover your instances and environments. Great product overall and a must to have in your infrastructure.
Also we recommend try it and even daily or monthly …
Chose AWS Backup
Being an AWS service, AWS Backup integrates in a native way with other AWS services, providing an easy way to backup those services. Being able to create separate backup plans that meet specific business and regulatory compliance requirements provides us with capabilities to …
Chose AWS Backup
We decided to go with AWS Backup because we already use other products within the AWS suite.
Chose AWS Backup
Well Microsoft Azure is cheaper but that said AWS has more hardware and software partners so that can give a real deep integration to your AWS files. Also AWS also has a lot more support option, and is older and more mature. That said AWS isn't as easy or as pretty as Microsoft …
Azure Backup
Chose Azure Backup
Azure Backup’s biggest advantage is seamless integration with Azure workloads, identity, networking, storage, monitoring, and automation. Advantage: - No extra infrastructure -Unified identity (Azure AD) -Integrated monitoring (Azure Monitor / Backup Center) - Policy-based …
Chose Azure Backup
Main advantage is the integrated nature of Azure Backup, it's integrated in the Azure UI for VM's so it's quick to enable/access.

Cove and Shadowprotect don't support Bare Metal Restore for Azure VM's
Chose Azure Backup
Azure Backup, Commvault, Acronis Data Protector, and Veeam Backup are popular backup solutions that offer similar functionality to protect data and applications.Azure Backup vs CommvaultCommvault is a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution that covers everything from …
Chose Azure Backup
Azure Backup is cheaper however Veeam is more visually pleasing and allows you to send the backups to other places including Azure, or other competitors remote DR vaults.
Chose Azure Backup
Azure supports on-premises and cloud-based servers, and IBM supports only IBM Cloud-based servers. IBM Cloud Backup has costs 7x higher than Azure.
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.
Chose Azure Backup
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 …
Chose Azure Backup
I won't say Azure Backup stacks up against these mentioned backup solutions, they're just for different approaches/implementations.
Depending on your requirements, you may have a mix of Azure Backups for 'simpler' backups and another backup tool for the most complex applications …
Chose Azure Backup
The cost, not only in the short term, but in our long-term calculations.
Even in need of improvements, the pre-sale and post-sale support is very good.
The ease, like many Microsoft products about scheduling backups, the friendly interface, the fact that there is no need for an …
Chose Azure Backup
Azure Backup is based on the most secure and encrypted cloud storage facility available...Microsoft. They have been doing this a long time and have ironed out all the kinks, leaving only the good and dependable solution in place. Azure Backup is fast also, you do not have major …
Chose Azure Backup
When it comes to protecting VM's in Azure, Azure Backup is the way to go versus offerings from Commvault. If you only have the infrastructure in Azure, Azure Backup is the much more attractive solution because it's built into the product, offers ease of configuration, and ties …
Features
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
8.9
Ratings
4% above category average
Azure Backup
-
Ratings
Management dashboard8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
7.7
Ratings
3% below category average
Azure Backup
-
Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
7.7
Ratings
11% below category average
Azure Backup
-
Ratings
SaaS Product Integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
-
Ratings
Azure Backup
8.7
Ratings
4% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
File search00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings9.00 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
Ratings
4% above category average
User and role management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
File organization00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Device management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
-
Ratings
Azure Backup
8.0
Ratings
8% below category average
Performance00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Reliability00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Storage Reports00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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AWS BackupAzure Backup
Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 3.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(0 ratings)
9.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS BackupAzure Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS [Backup] does what it intends on doing. AWS [Backup] is very fast, however, for that speed, you'll end up with a high bill at the end of the month. Compared to competitors, AWS [Backup] is a lot more expensive than others. However, I believe it makes it up in it's versatility - there's no company more compatible with others than AWS.
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By using Azure Backup, you can back up your NAS device you use locally as a file server, virtual machines you use in [a] production environment, critical databases, and everything you can think of. I do not know if there are scenarios that are not suitable, it meets all my needs.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Azure Backup excels at protecting both cloud and on-premises workloads, enabling organizations to adopt a unified backup strategy.
  • Azure Backup performs application‑consistent backups, capturing full application state, including in-memory data and pending transactions.
  • Azure Backup requires no backup servers, appliances, or tapes. Azure Backup includes multiple built‑in ransomware mitigation features.
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Cons
  • Lacks built-in features for granular recovery, such as files or DB records, without restoring the entire backup.
  • Complexity - managing backups with multiple rules and resources, with limitations on the number of tags and resources per plan.
  • D/R recovery orchestration - does not offer advanced D/R orchestration.
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  • Having an admin console that you can use to manage backup schedules across your network would be useful. Going machine to machine to check the current settings is ok but would be better in a GUI.
  • Maybe an agent utility installed on each workstation where the user can specify or customize the backup, perhaps just a set of folders, or ignore certain folders, would be helpful to eliminate garbage in the cloud.
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Usability
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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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
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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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
Linode requires a minimum data purchase for their S3 storage solution. While the convenience of being able to mount the drive directly is great, it isn't the best for small amounts of data for our different customers. I initially tried there other backup solution but they couldn't guarantee where the data would be stored in relation to the server we were using. The risk being an incident in our near our server could result in the loss of our backup as well.
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The cost, not only in the short term, but in our long-term calculations.
Even in need of improvements, the pre-sale and post-sale support is very good.
The ease, like many Microsoft products about scheduling backups, the friendly interface, the fact that there is no need for an expensive resource dedicated to this backup and some other details, made us choose Azure Backup.
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Return on Investment
  • With AWS Backup we can restore a resource in minutes
  • With AWS Backup we don't need to worry if a resources is being backed up or not, the plan you can configure can cover all resources
  • With AWS Backup you can plan for Disaster Recovery as it lets you copy the backup to other account or region
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  • 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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