Microsoft's Azure Backup is a cloud backup service.
$5
Veeam Backup for Azure
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Veeam® Backup for Azure delivers native, policy-based protection for reliable recovery from accidental deletion, ransomware and other data loss scenarios. With an API-first approach, immutable backups and full- and file-level restores ensure resilient protection that’s easy and cost-optimized, freeing up time and resources for more strategic IT priorities. Immutable and Encrypted - Data integrity through WORM state and encryption Logically…
$40
per year Azure VM/year Backup and recovery
Pricing
Azure Backup
Veeam Backup for Azure
Editions & Modules
Storage in GB/Month
$0.0224 to $0.0569
per GB
Backup Instance <50GB
$5.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB
$10.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance Instance is > 500 GB
$10 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed
BYOL edition
$40
per year per Azure VM (Back up and recover in Azure only with 24/7 production support)
Free Edition
Free
Backup up to 10 Azure VMs FREE with no limitations on features or number of restores.
BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
VUL Portable licensing
Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
Azure Backup, Commvault, Acronis Data Protector, and Veeam Backup are popular backup solutions that offer similar functionality to protect data and applications.Azure Backup vs CommvaultCommvault is a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution that covers everything from …
Azure Backup is cheaper however Veeam is more visually pleasing and allows you to send the backups to other places including Azure, or other competitors remote DR vaults.
While we have a big Cove Data Protection usage it is simply not able to offer the same functionality as Veeam Backup for Azure, in a case a Azure VM fails to boot due to a configuration error or faulty Windows Update we would not be able to restore it with Cove Data Protection.
It is much faster, easier to use, has multiple scale out repositories that are immutable. Azure Backup works but it is slow when processing backups, and restoring backups. It is not flexible compared to Veeam.
Azure Backup services give reliable backups with the bare minimum needed to get the job done. Veeam Backup takes it several steps further with better management, better features, better reporting and better integration with on-prem backups. It does the same job, it just does it …
Veeam allows much more flexibility in scheduling backup jobs, It also allows you to copy backups to an on prem server or another cloud if you wanted to, it also allowed you to restore Azure VMs on premise or to another cloud.
The other products we considered had higher overall costs and appeared to offer less functionality/customisation. We had also experienced reliability issues with one of the other products so did not have confidence it would provide a suitable backup and DR solution.