AWS Backup vs. Azure StorSimple

AWS Backup

138 Reviews and Ratings

Azure StorSimple

Azure StorSimple

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Backup	Score 8.1 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 StorSimple	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	StorSimple was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. The StorSimple storage gateway appliance is now a part of Microsoft's Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage solution.	$4.11 Per Day

Pricing

AWS Backup

Azure StorSimple

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

Virtual Appliance: $4.11
Per Day
Cloud Array: $4.11
Per Day
Physical Appliance: $43.84
Per Day

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Backup	Azure StorSimple
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	AWS Backup	Azure StorSimple
Top Pros	Pro Disaster recovery Pro Save documents Pro Best security	Pro Private cloud Pro Web client Pro Plug and play
Top Cons	Minus One click Minus User interface Minus Long wait	No answers on this topic

Features

AWS Backup

Azure StorSimple

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	AWS Backup 9.3 3 Ratings 3% above category average	Azure StorSimple - Ratings
Management dashboard	9.23 Ratings	00 Ratings
Retention options	9.43 Ratings	00 Ratings
Encryption	10.03 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	AWS Backup	Azure StorSimple
Likelihood to Recommend	7.1 (9 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Backup	Azure StorSimple
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Backups - it's what it does. Incentivized Matt Hoffman Chief Executive Officer Read full review	Microsoft Performance via the SSD drives. Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure. Easy to Admin via Web client interface. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS 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) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Additional fail-over functionality Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	Microsoft If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Usability	Amazon AWS 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. Incentivized Chris Barretto CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	Microsoft 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS 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. Incentivized OM Oscar Martinez DevOps Read full review	Microsoft Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS 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. Incentivized Daniel Cauley Co-Owner Read full review	Microsoft Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team Great value on year 2 Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review
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