GoodSync vs. Veeam Backup for AWS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodSync
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
GoodSync for Business provides complete enterprise data backup and synchronization across data sources, destinations, and systems. The GoodSync for Business Control Center is specifically designed to minimize user interaction and increase management control by deploying pre-created GoodSync backup and synchronization jobs to GoodSync for Business Workstations and GoodSync for Business Servers, and enabling an administrator to monitor performance from a centralized location.N/A
Veeam Backup for AWS
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Veeam® 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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodSyncVeeam Backup for AWS
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
GoodSync
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Ratings
Veeam Backup for AWS
7.7
59 Ratings
12% below category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings7.858 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings7.653 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings7.656 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings8.159 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.554 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings7.953 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings7.654 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings7.653 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings7.653 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings7.852 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings7.852 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
GoodSync
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Ratings
Veeam Backup for AWS
7.6
58 Ratings
10% below category average
Continuous data protection00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings7.953 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.354 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings7.347 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings7.553 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings7.920 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodSyncVeeam Backup for AWS
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(3 ratings)
8.2
(92 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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7.0
(11 ratings)
Usability
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7.7
(11 ratings)
Availability
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8.4
(88 ratings)
Performance
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7.1
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
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7.7
(11 ratings)
In-Person Training
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8.1
(2 ratings)
Online Training
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7.3
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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6.7
(8 ratings)
Configurability
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6.7
(7 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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6.6
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
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5.7
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
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7.1
(7 ratings)
Professional Services
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6.7
(5 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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6.4
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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7.1
(7 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodSyncVeeam Backup for AWS
Likelihood to Recommend
Siber Systems, Inc.
It is mainly because of its features and reliability. Even when dealing with large drives, after the analysis step, it can identify the changes that occurred between the backup or synchronization drive and the master drive and presents to the use the choices of what should be done about the changes. The user can accept the changes or tweak which the backup or synchronization will do. The SW will remember those decisions for future activities on the same drives.
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Veeam Software
Veeam Backup for AWS is a good choice for organizations that have a hybrid cloud environment, with workloads running both on-premises and in the cloud. The solution provides a unified backup and recovery platform that can help organizations protect their entire IT environment. From the other side, Veeam Backup for AWS is a powerful solution, but it comes with a price tag. Organizations with limited IT budgets may not be able to justify the cost of the solution, particularly if they have only a small number of workloads running on AWS.
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Pros
Siber Systems, Inc.
  • Quickly analyzes the drives and compares files and dates to give a complete picture
  • Gives you complete control over what to do with files that are similar but my not be matching. (same name, different size or date)
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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
Siber Systems, Inc.
  • Can't sync to Sharepoint 2016 at this time. Which is a problem since we are on 2016 already.
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Veeam Software
  • Latency was an issue sometimes and after backing up data for 95%, the backup will fail and we will have to re-run
  • UX is great but we would like to have more CLI usage and automation baked into the solution. Especially now when GitOps (IaC) is getting traction.
  • Pricing wise the Veeam solution was difficult for native business to adopt.
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Likelihood to Renew
Siber Systems, Inc.
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
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
Veeam Backup for AWS is a user-friendly, reasonably priced solution for backing up AWS resources, which is something I like. Users of AWS are able to back up and restore their data quickly and effectively thanks to the reliable backup and recovery solution it offers. Additionally, it offers scalability, making it simple for users to add more storage space.
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Performance
Siber Systems, Inc.
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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
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
Siber Systems, Inc.
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
Siber Systems, Inc.
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
Siber Systems, Inc.
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
Siber Systems, Inc.
For reliability, GoodSync is beyond comparison. Some of the other tools I tried either fail through the backup/synchronization process, leaving one with unknown status of what has been backed up and what has not, wasting an inordinate amount of time because one has to repeat the whole process. Goodsync, even if it stops because of power glitches can easily pick up where it left after performing the analysis
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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
Siber Systems, Inc.
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
Siber Systems, Inc.
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Veeam Software
We have found that Veeam Backup on AWS is very reliable as we have had it running for about a year and only have had it failed daily a few times and that was due to outages or servers that was part of our maintainance. We also like how the testing and verification of our backups is an excellent feature to confirm we can restore to the previous backup
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Professional Services
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
Generally satisfied
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Return on Investment
Siber Systems, Inc.
  • This has saved many hours of work because occasionally the flash drives die, break, fail or get left behind somewhere. The time to get all the files and software back in working order would take a day or two. By keeping several of them identical with GoodSync, work goes on without missing a beat.
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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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