AWS Backup vs Cohesity Helios

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Director in Information Technology

E-Learning Company, 1-10 employees

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Cohesity checks all the boxes when it comes to backups to an on-prem appliance as well as offloading to the cloud as an offsite backup. If you are after some meaningful analytics around backups for reporting when some additional work will be needed as the built-in reporting does not seem too intuitive or useful for those who want more than just an understanding of whether the backup succeeded or failed - we need to understand which, files, directories, partitions or VMs and the cause.

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Professional in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Backups - it's what it does.

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Matt Hoffman

Chief Executive Officer

Hoffman Management GroupMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Instant spin up of test and dev machines is pretty amazing. Our last solution claimed to do this but the backing storage was much too slow t be of use.
Uploads to the cloud are simple to set up and you can leverage low cost blob storage.
The cluster nature of the solution makes upgrades seamless with zero downtime.
The entire cluster fits in 2U of space -- we are saving 8U in our main datacenter and all 6U we previously had offsite.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Not so easy to use
A little pricey
The backup is in the cloud; make sure to keep an offline backup (the problem of all of this kind of solution)

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Engineer in Other

Environmental Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Replication performance - We needed support to provide some customizations in order to get our replication to work properly to another offsite cluster. We have been told that this issue is fixed in the newest general release.
Support - I would characterize the support as very good, but in a few instances I could tell my support agent needed to go higher up his chain to get clarification on features. I believe Cohesity is rapidly growing their support infrastructure as they put more hardware in the field.

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Strategist in Human Resources

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

AWS Backup 9.5

Based on 2 answers

Very easy to use and is as plug and play as you can get. There are configuration options for multiple schemas that best fits your organization.

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Chris Barretto

CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

CureusPublishing, 1-10 employees

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Cohesity Helios 7.3

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The user interface is very intuitive and gives a good overview of the status of your backup jobs. Its a full html5 environment which can be used in very browser and is available on every device through the use of private connections to the office. When going to implement Cohesity it is as easy as putting it in the rack and configuring your network. The environment does the rest. Once configured new nodes can be added by configuring them with the correct network.We use it in a VMware vCenter environment with vCloud Director on top. Since the latest version vCloud Director is an official source for your backups. This means that resoring to vCloud Director is a posibility as well. This makes the multi-tenancy and self service capability for our users an easy to use function. It can be implemented as a plugin within the Cloud portal for users to leverage.The path to vCloud Director support took a while but now that we are there I can give it an 8.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

AWS Backup 9.4

Based on 5 answers

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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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cohesity Helios 9.1

Based on 44 answers

They are always friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. The support is easy to reach and the reaction times are on point. Several times I had called with my system being down and the person who answered the call would require a support rep call me back. Some of these call backs would be 1-2 hours later. When needed, the support will scale up to deliver the right support for the right cases. When asking for detailed information about a problem they always help you to understand the problem and the underlying causes better.

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Scott Noel

Systems Engineer

SheetzRetail, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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 face auditing processes.

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Oscar Martinez

DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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We looked at Veeam and although it's a great product when we priced out the licensing of both primary and disaster datacenters it became much too expensive.Rubrik is a great product and very similar to Cohesity. In the end, Cohesity had a secondary storage play as well as a better UI and better compatibility with lower tier cloud storage. We also like the way Cohesity did protection jobs vs Rubrik's virtual machine centric backup.CommVault is a product we still use today due to its massive features and the ability for bare metal backups. Cohesity does a much better job in the area of UI simplicity, virtual backup ease, and ease of management.

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Kris Olson

Systems Administrator

Valley Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Being able to offer live hot storage in the cloud for production environments allows me to get more people in the creative space with vast demand for speed.
Great integration with all my hardware, firewall and backup software was great.
Being able to network path my files like a native drive to my computer from the cloud made the designer not complain so much able learning new stuff.

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Daniel Cauley

Co-Owner

Dawn till Dusk TekInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Cost savings from having to purchase and manage physical tapes, as well as the man-hours to swap them in and out and store them off site.
Extremely fast recovery times, can bring up a restored VM back in our environment in under a minute. Get back up and running much quicker.
Simplifies our disaster recovery strategy.
Initial cost can be pricey depending on your storage needs.

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Supervisor in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

AWS Backup Editions & Modules

Edition

Backup Storage - Warm Storage	$0.095¹
Backup Storage - Cold Storage	$0.01¹
Restore - Warm Storage	$0.02¹
Restore - Cold Storage	$0.03¹
Restore - Item-Level Restore	$0.50²

per GB per month
per request

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cohesity Helios Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Feature Rating Comparison

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Cons

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Usability

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Support Rating

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Alternatives Considered

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Return on Investment

AWS Backup

Cohesity Helios

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

AWS Backup Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Cohesity Helios Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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