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Based on 57 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Data Center Backup
AWS Backup
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

9.0
Cohesity Helios
90%
Cohesity Helios ranks higher in 14/14 features
Cohesity Helios ranks higher in 14/14 features
Universal recovery
N/A
0 Ratings

9.9
99%
39 Ratings
Live recovery
N/A
0 Ratings

9.9
99%
41 Ratings
Recovery verification
N/A
0 Ratings

8.8
88%
37 Ratings
Business application protection
N/A
0 Ratings

7.1
71%
39 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations
N/A
0 Ratings

8.9
89%
41 Ratings
Incremental backup identification
N/A
0 Ratings

9.9
99%
42 Ratings
Backup to the cloud
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
34 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression
N/A
0 Ratings

7.3
73%
44 Ratings
Snapshots
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
42 Ratings
Flexible deployment
N/A
0 Ratings

8.1
81%
40 Ratings
Management dashboard
N/A
0 Ratings

9.8
98%
44 Ratings
Platform support
N/A
0 Ratings

8.9
89%
44 Ratings
Retention options
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
44 Ratings
Encryption
N/A
0 Ratings

9.8
98%
42 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- AWS Backup is rated higher in 1 area: Usability
- Cohesity Helios is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
AWS Backup
81%
9 Ratings

9.9
Cohesity Helios
99%
44 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
AWS Backup
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
Cohesity Helios
91%
1 Rating
Usability
9.5
AWS Backup
95%
2 Ratings

8.6
Cohesity Helios
86%
8 Ratings
Support Rating
9.4
AWS Backup
94%
8 Ratings

9.8
Cohesity Helios
98%
36 Ratings
Implementation Rating
AWS Backup
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
Cohesity Helios
91%
1 Rating
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
AWS Backup
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
Cohesity Helios
82%
2 Ratings
Professional Services
AWS Backup
N/A
0 Ratings

8.8
Cohesity Helios
88%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Backup
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.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 1-10 employeesCohesity Helios
Cohesity is very well suited to protecting virtualised workloads and is a significant improvement over IBM Spectrum Protect which we’ve replaced by Cohesity. We also protect a Netapp workload and whilst the on-prem side works really well careful planning of protection jobs is needed if you’ll be archiving these to Cloud.
Senior Storage Administrator
UCLEducation Management, 10,001+ employees
Pros
AWS Backup
- Backups - it's what it does.
Chief Executive Officer
Hoffman Management GroupMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees
Cohesity Helios
- 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.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesCons
AWS Backup
- 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)

Verified User
Engineer in Other
Environmental Services Company, 11-50 employeesCohesity Helios
- 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.

Verified User
Strategist in Human Resources
Retail Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
AWS Backup
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.01 per GB per month
AWS Backup Editions & Modules
Edition
Backup Storage - Warm Storage | $0.0951 |
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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
—Cohesity Helios
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Cohesity Helios Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
AWS Backup
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.
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
CureusPublishing, 1-10 employees
Cohesity Helios
Cohesity Helios 8.6
Based on 8 answers
The Cohesity platform with its user interface is easy to implement, rack space-saving, and easy to use on a daily business basis. Backup jobs and policies are easy to define, multiple machines and objects can be grouped for the same tasks. In general, Cohesity makes backup admins' lives much easier.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Entertainment Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
AWS Backup
AWS Backup 9.4
Based on 8 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesCohesity Helios
Cohesity Helios 9.8
Based on 36 answers
Cohesity support is wonderful to work with. If your case is assigned to someone who is outside of your time zone, you are able to ask for it to be reassigned to someone in your time zone and no offense is taken; in fact, some of the support agents will call out that they see the time zone difference and if you want the case assigned to someone in your time zone, please request it be re-queued so that proper attention is given to it. This is rare in my experience and it makes it wonderful to work with them. I usually only request it be re-queued when I have a system down or severely degraded and need to work on it immediately. Great people to work with!

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 501-1000 employeesImplementation Rating
AWS Backup
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Cohesity Helios
Cohesity Helios 9.1
Based on 1 answer
The layout of how to implement consistency should be thought through beforehand. Changing it after the application is time-consuming.
Information Technology Executive
Sanko HOLDINGTextiles, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
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 face auditing processes.
DevOps
Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees
Cohesity Helios
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.
Systems Administrator
Valley Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
AWS Backup
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Cohesity Helios
Cohesity Helios 8.2
Based on 2 answers
Cohesity Helios was included with our Cohesity DataPlatform purchase. The pricing to refresh our backup and software with Cohesity was less than our annual backup software renewal from our previous solution.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employeesProfessional Services
AWS Backup
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Cohesity Helios
Cohesity Helios 8.8
Based on 3 answers
Overall Cohesity professional services like the rest of Cohesity are brilliant. We had some poor advice around how to carve up our Netapp protection jobs which has set us back but it has been acknowledged that a mistake was made by Cohesity and they promise for future engagements with new customers the lessons learnt with us will be integrated into their planning workshop for NAS onboarding.
Senior Storage Administrator
UCLEducation Management, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
AWS Backup
- 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.
Co-Owner
Dawn till Dusk TekInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Cohesity Helios
- 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.

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employees