AWS Backup vs. Carbonite Safe

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
Carbonite Safe
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Carbonite Safe is a personal cloud backup solution offered on pricing tiers to backup a single computer to multiple computers, to an insfrastructure consisting of endpoints and servers. Users of the former Mozy product (an online data backup service which allows users to back up their hard drive and, in the event of a computer catastrophe, perform a full restore of all files) are migrated to Carbonite Safe. Mozy was acquired by Carbonite from Dell in March 2018.
$83.99
per year
Pricing
AWS BackupCarbonite Safe
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
Basic
$83.99
per year
Plus
$119.99
per year
Prime
$149.99
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS BackupCarbonite Safe
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 BackupCarbonite Safe
Features
AWS BackupCarbonite Safe
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
Carbonite Safe
8.9
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Management dashboard8.36 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Retention options7.36 Ratings6.93 Ratings
Encryption8.36 Ratings9.83 Ratings
Universal recovery00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings3.93 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.63 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
7.9
3 Ratings
1% below category average
Carbonite Safe
8.7
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Operational reporting and analytics8.03 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Malware protection8.03 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery7.73 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
8.0
3 Ratings
8% below category average
Carbonite Safe
-
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
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User Ratings
AWS BackupCarbonite Safe
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(12 ratings)
9.2
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
5.9
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(5 ratings)
8.9
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(4 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS BackupCarbonite Safe
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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Mozy Pro is a great fit, especially for small businesses that don't want to pursue a very large number of licenses, and don't have many TB of data to backup. The price per user is reasonable, and well within the budget of smaller businesses needing workstation backup solutions. For larger enterprises, there are other products that provide a lot more storage and better performance. We found Code42's product to be better for larger data backup needs.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • Performance Settings: Mozy can be configured to run very smoothly in the background with minimal performance degradation. It provides network bandwidth throttling, backup speed, and backing up only when idle option. From my own experience I usually do not notice any performance degradation when Mozy is running. Of course a good network or Internet connection is vital.
  • Restore: file restoration is simple and intuitive. The user can restore logical backup sets (e.g. all photos) or file based (select the folder or file you want restored). Files and folders can be restored with the latest version or earlier version. Rename and overwrite options provide further flexibility.
  • Sync: with Mozy you can sync file across multiple devices including mobile. Access to your corporate files via smart phone is a secure manner is very useful.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • I would like to see backups for programs that I have installed on my machine. For instance I use Adobe CS6 and MS Office among other things. Instead of having to reinstall all these programs on my new machine, I would love for Mozy to be able to save the programs somehow and I can restore them as they were on the old machine with the same almost one-click process that I use to restore files. Basically like Time Machine, but for Windows.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Carbonite, an OpenText company
For the clients we have using this service, we fully plan to renew the subscription. However, that may change as our client's business grows and they have a need to add visualization and other server types to their environment
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Out of all the vendor we deal with they are one of the best when it comes to customers service. Reliable,you can reach them by telephone easily, Great overall can not say anything to the contrary. Usibility is excellent. I recommend them highly whether you need a simple backup ofr more complex for servers etc.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
I usually find what I need to know by looking in the Carbonite knowledge base online. We haven't had any major problems, usually we just need clarification on a point or more details about a feature so we look it up. We haven't had to call in for help in quite awhile.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Carbonite Safe is a great solution for startup entities. It ranks nicely with Acronis and Carbonite Server Backup. Carbonite Safe is very good for backing up workstations including home computers. This is a good solution for home office users. Acronis does image level backups better than Mozy / Carbonite Safe whereas Barracuda Backup is a much more expensive (but worthwhile) investment. Barracuda Backup includes a physical BDR appliance.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • Mozy is very affordable and pricing is very flexible and easy to add more space when needed. This allows us to only pay for what we need.
  • Having our critical files protected is the most important thing. The fact that it doesn't cost much for us to do that is just a bonus.
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