AWS Backup vs. CloudAlly by OpenText

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Backup
Score 8.8 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
CloudAlly by OpenText
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
CloudAlly, now from Opentext, which acquired CloudAlly parent company Zix in December, 2021, aims to offer an easy and reliable backup solution for leading online services such as Office365, Google Apps, Box and Salesforce. CloudAlly subscriptions include: - Unlimited secure Amazon S3 storage and unlimited retention of daily archives - Archive storage in Amazon’s U.S., E.U. or Australia Data Centers - One-click non-destructive…
$2
user, month
Pricing
AWS BackupCloudAlly by OpenText
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
SharePoint Online and OneDrive backups for Business
$2
user, month
Backup Box for Business and Enterprise
$2
user, month
Gmail Backup
$2
user, month
Yahoo! Mail Backup
$2
user, month
IMAP Backup
$2
user, month
Amazon DynamoDB and SimpleDB Backups
$2
user, month
office-365-backup
$3
user, month
Google Apps Backup
$3
user, month
Salesforce Backup
$3
user, month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS BackupCloudAlly by OpenText
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
AWS BackupCloudAlly by OpenText
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
CloudAlly by OpenText
-
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
CloudAlly by OpenText
-
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
CloudAlly by OpenText
-
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 BackupCloudAlly by OpenText
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(12 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS BackupCloudAlly by OpenText
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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OpenText
CloudAlly is a great backup for Salesforce and Box that is cloud based for a reasonable monthly/annual cost. Thankfully, we have rarely had to use our backups, but the service has been very reliable. It is less appropriate if you are not storing a lot in any of the platforms that they backup
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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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OpenText
  • Backup Services
  • Salesforce Backup
  • Box Backup
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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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OpenText
  • User interface could be easier to use
  • Backups in Salesforce could be easier to view
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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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
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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OpenText
We chose CloudAlly because it had both Box and Salesforce as backup options so we were able to only setup one service, rather than two. The price point is also much better than OwnBackup, which was our second option. I like Skyvia for importing data, but their interface is not as easy to use.
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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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OpenText
  • Extra layer of protection on our data
  • Ability to retrieve past data if an issue occurs
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