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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Backblaze Business Backup

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ABackblaze headquartered in San Mateo, California offers continuous, automatic cloud backup for personal and business use. Backblaze Business Backup consists of cloud solutions to safeguard systems and files (e.g Veeam, Servers, NAS, Workstations).

    $7

    per month

    Veeam Backup for AWS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® delivers native, automated AWS backup and disaster recovery to protect and manage Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS and Amazon VPC data. Veeam states it is built with simplicity, scalability, savings and security in mind, so users can eliminate the risk of data loss for AWS services.

    $40

    per year instance

    Pricing
    Backblaze Business BackupVeeam Backup for AWS
    Editions & Modules
    Monthly
    $7.00
    Per Computer
    Yearly
    $70.00
    Per Computer
    2-Year
    $130.00
    Per Computer
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Backblaze Business BackupVeeam Backup for AWS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Backblaze Business BackupVeeam Backup for AWS
    Considered Both Products
    Backblaze
    No answer on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    We chose Veeam Backup for AWS because of the seamless deployment, licensing and support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    We were looking at alternatives to Veeam due to the costs and the data it allows us to back up. We feel Veeam has better features and support however in regards to limitations for bandwidth and cost are the only downsides of their product. Overall Veeam appears to be a leader …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    112 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    97 Answers
    Features
    Backblaze Business BackupVeeam Backup for AWS
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Backblaze Business Backup and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Backblaze Business Backup
    7.4
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery8.02 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Instant recovery5.01 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.02 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.02 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression2.01 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Snapshots9.02 Ratings8.371 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.01 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Management dashboard6.02 Ratings8.673 Ratings
    Platform support6.02 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Retention options10.01 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Encryption10.01 Ratings7.870 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Backblaze Business Backup and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Backblaze Business Backup
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.2
    82 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Continuous data protection7.53 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Replication7.02 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.53 Ratings8.975 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities10.02 Ratings7.173 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery7.03 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
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    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Backblaze Business BackupVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (31 ratings)
    8.9
    (115 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (106 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Backblaze Business BackupVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Backblaze
    Backblaze does one thing and does one thing well: backup. If you recognize it for what it is, you will be very happy with it as an unobtrusive off-site backup solution. If, however, you want full-featured endpoint protection, you'll want to look elsewhere. For me and my needs, Backblaze provides the right amount of protection at a cheap price. You can't beat it.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    I like the idea of using this product for backups and cold storage. This allows for long retention times and a very low cost. The ability to quickly restore and the efficiency of all the products involved. I haven't come across scenarios where it isn't appropriate. I don't have a lot of experience so for me, it works well in my cases.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Backblaze
    • Backblaze utilizes a native app across platforms vs. a javascript app you find with other backup services (CrashPlan being one of them). Native apps function better and have a better user interface than comparable javascript apps.
    • Backblaze has an intuitive interface that automatically backs everything up from your computer but allows you to easily exclude items you don't want or need to backup (applications, system files, etc.).
    • Backblaze has a built-in bandwidth cap and monitor allowing you to limit how much data is backed up on a daily basis to prevent going over ISP data caps or utilizing all of your upload bandwidth.
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    Veeam Software
    • Veeam Backup for AWS provides a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS workloads.
    • It's very easily integrated with the AWS cloud.
    • The Simple and intuitive user interface of Veeam Backup for AWS makes it easy to set up and manage backups for AWS instances.
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    Cons
    Backblaze
    • User management isn't the greatest. We had the choice of either a site license under one email address, or a domain license, allowing users to log in with their own email address, however there's no management for this option. I can see metrics of the users' backup, but I can't manage the accounts in any way.
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    Veeam Software
    • We have never managed to use Veeam for Azure or GCP. It works well with AWS.
    • A client needed a multi-cloud DR solution management but we had a security issue and could find a solution from Veeam Backup for AWS.
    • Usually, you need a dedicated resource to monitor when the number of workloads is high. That adds to the cost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have been using Veeam Backup for AWS for our cloud hosted solutions for the last several years and will continue to do so. The ease of use and available support staff make the learning curve for use nearly flat in our case and having Veeam Backup for on-premise workloads makes the decision easy.
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    Usability
    Backblaze
    As stated in my review, Backblaze simply works and works simply. You install it. It runs silently in the background storing and safeguarding all your computer data remotely. You seldom notice it until you've lost something you need - then you can quickly find it online using their interface and restore it - which is what's really important.
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    Veeam Software
    The UI and the integration is good with the product. so far
    has not encountered any major challenges while using the UI. of course, this is
    user perspective. Few users suggested some different view that it should be
    change father should have some different options but overall the feedback about
    UI is positive and no major issues encountered by using the UI or forsake of
    this usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Veeam Backup has never failed me, whenever we have needed to recover data it has worked flawlessly. It is highly available and I do not know of of a situation where our business has needed Veeam Backup fo AWS and has not been able to access or use it in some way.
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    Performance
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have not really noticed much difference and only notice it when doing work afterhours with our veeam being backed up. However, this is not the case as we do not do this often and hence we don't really have any real challenges for performance issues. Overall, we find that the performance is pretty good
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    Support Rating
    Backblaze
    They answered any questions I had accurately and politely. I prefer to call a phone number and get a human on the phone, but they prefer email and chat. I understand they have business profits to consider, so it makes sense.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    One of the best and leading backup solution with central management for all Virtual Servers, Physical servers and Application level backup. Migrated from distributed backup solution running at each site to central VEEAM solution which has reduced overhead of backup administrator and improves the backup performance. Veeam team is very supportive in solution design, taken care of all our requirements and provided the cost effective solution.
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    In-Person Training
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We had only one due to the pandemic, but we remember really enjoying the help. Someone came to our site and walked us through the process and we had lots of time to ask questions and got really helpful solutions and tips and tricks to make sure that staff would understand and learn how to use it
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    Online Training
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    The training provided online was good. The training was restrictive to users but was content was good and informative. The information provided was relevent and flow was maintained well. The Question and answers were good and supported well. Need to have more material provided with the training and will support users to adopt train the trainer approach.
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    Implementation Rating
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We were pretty happy with our implementation as it was simple to deploy and we followed the technical guide online with out much technical assistance from vendor support. We had also tested and streamlined a process based on our own documentation for our own company which was simple to follow overall for deploying into AWS for future instances
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    Alternatives Considered
    Backblaze
    It's honestly been so long that I've been using Backblaze - maybe 10+ years - that I don't even remember other options I compared it to way back when. I've had a subscription on all of my personal machines for years, and we've used it on all of our machines at my job for the past six.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    I had looked at N2WS Backup & Recovery backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS environments. But while it provides similar backup and recovery capabilities as Veeam Backup for AWS, it lacks some of the advanced features such as instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Overall, we pretty happy with the way it is contracted and the pricing structure. However, as stated we got it on promotion so we wont know until what it is after the 3 years but at this stage we are pretty happy with the product and the pricing from the commercial aspect
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    Scalability
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have using this solution since 2020. In that moment we had four Host Linux and today we have forty vm Linux and Windows. The solution work fine as with few vm as multiples vm. The backup operators lovely this feacture, because keep simple his duties. Finally, we use the same solution for AWS, Azure or onpremise. This is great characteristic for skill transfer over backup team!
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    Professional Services
    Backblaze
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Generally satisfied
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    Return on Investment
    Backblaze
    • The saving of data is almost immeasurable - Backblaze is the best backup company I've ever used.
    • Getting started is quick and easy - and you get a 14-day trial.
    • The price is cheaper than every other service - but don't tell them!
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    Veeam Software
    • The only thing is that you have to make sure you understand your AWS costs if your retention periods are not kept under control.
    • ROI is hard to prove until the moment you need to restore your workload.
    • Time-saving is something that comes to mind. Before Veeam, we used to spend/waste a lot of time verifying and testing our backup and restore. Veeam makes it easy with its SureBackup technology.
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    ScreenShots

    Veeam Backup for AWS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview page detailing high-level information like alarms, protected instances, policies, and session information.Screenshot of Policies page detailing available policies, status and sessions log.Screenshot of Estimated monthly costs in policy wizard for snapshots, replicas, backups, traffic and transactions for machines in a policy.Screenshot of File Level Recovery, where individual files and folders can be searched and browsed for granular recovery.