Veeam Backup for AWS vs. Veeam Data Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Veeam Backup for AWS
Score 8.1 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
Veeam Data Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.
$428
per year per 5 instances
Pricing
Veeam Backup for AWSVeeam Data Platform
Editions & Modules
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Veeam Data Platform Essentials
$428
per year per 5 instances
Veeam Data Platform
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Veeam Backup for AWSVeeam Data Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Veeam Backup for AWSVeeam Data Platform
Considered Both Products
Veeam Backup for AWS
Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
Several items on the market were analyzed by our company, including the Dell product. Other items on the market are just as competitive and have their own set of advantages and disadvantages to weigh against each other. In the course of our evaluation, we discovered that Veeam …
Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
Other products required multiple programss and vendors to work correctly. To be able to operate everything from one program makes management, training, and recovery so much easier
Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
Veeam [Backup for AWS] is the best backup product out there, period. Lightyears ahead in product features and ease of deployment and use.
Veeam Data Platform

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Veeam Backup for AWSVeeam Data Platform
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Backup for AWS
7.9
79 Ratings
8% below category average
Veeam Data Platform
9.1
182 Ratings
11% above category average
Universal recovery8.078 Ratings9.9148 Ratings
Instant recovery7.977 Ratings9.0159 Ratings
Recovery verification8.176 Ratings9.4161 Ratings
Business application protection7.669 Ratings9.0148 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations7.976 Ratings9.9172 Ratings
Incremental backup identification7.974 Ratings9.4178 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.378 Ratings8.0109 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression7.871 Ratings9.4166 Ratings
Snapshots7.971 Ratings8.9155 Ratings
Flexible deployment7.771 Ratings9.0144 Ratings
Management dashboard7.673 Ratings7.522 Ratings
Platform support7.971 Ratings8.5148 Ratings
Retention options7.970 Ratings9.5150 Ratings
Encryption7.970 Ratings9.5129 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Backup for AWS
8.0
82 Ratings
2% below category average
Veeam Data Platform
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Ratings
Continuous data protection8.377 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.675 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.175 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection7.362 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities7.873 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery7.838 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Veeam Backup for AWSVeeam Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(115 ratings)
9.4
(637 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.1
(11 ratings)
9.9
(31 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(12 ratings)
9.7
(26 ratings)
Availability
8.9
(106 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(8 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(11 ratings)
9.9
(32 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.9
(8 ratings)
10.0
(19 ratings)
Configurability
6.7
(6 ratings)
9.3
(5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.6
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.0
(5 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.4
(9 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Professional Services
6.6
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.5
(6 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.0
(6 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Veeam Backup for AWSVeeam Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Veeam Software
We have a small deployment with a handful of physical hosts and two dozen or so virtual servers. It's been a perfect fit for us to manage all those backups and to restore entire systems from or even pull specific files/folders from a backup as needed if just a few things need changed/rolled back.
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Pros
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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  • File-level restore is quick, reliable, and much simpler than other platforms I've used
  • Replication is extremely simple to configure and test
  • Agent setup for user endpoints and subsequent backup storage is incredibly simple
  • Cloud repository configuration is extremely straightforward and well-documented
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Cons
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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Veeam Software
  • Support could stand to improve by a bit. The level of support has seemingly lessened over the years I've been using it.
  • It needs to be able to report backup repository statistics better when XFS and ReFS are in use.
  • It could be a little better about cleaning up after itself (old logs, etc.).
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Veeam Software
I have used many other data backup products that are on the market. I trust the configuration options within Veeam to do as they are labeled, without any specific back end software changes that may cause backups to fail if you don't use a systems integrator.
I trust the product for my own home environment as well due to relationship I have with the product at work.
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Usability
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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Veeam Software
Veeam is fairly simple in terms of how it is set up; its not an overly-complicated dashboard that can be intimidating to less technically-inclined users. Veeam also offers good instructional videos to help users work through how to do specific functions. I appreciate that they have specific video tutorials rather than having users scroll through a cumbersome manual.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Veeam Software
The Veeam Backup & Replication solution is up and running every time you need it as it was planned. In more than 3 years that we have been using the product every night, it might have failed or presented an error once or twice, so the availability percentage is almost at 100%.
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Performance
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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Veeam Software
Veeam does a good job with backing up our servers in a timely manner. We are still at the beginning of our Veeam use and are pleased with the speed at which we can access the system as well as the backups and restore points. Veeam is definitely superior to our previous backup system in terms of speed and accessibility
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Support Rating
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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Veeam Software
The support team has never asked me to jump through silly hoops or waste time on pointless exercises. They seem to truly have a handle on what may be wrong. In fact, when we were having trouble getting our license renewal setup (because of yet another license migration at Veeam) a support incident got us connected to the right people to get our renewal done in time.
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In-Person Training
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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Veeam Software
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Online Training
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
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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Veeam Software
(I assume this question should say "Veeam" and not "Crownpeak Universal Consent Platform") Planning is key. Planning your backup schedule, size, data restore points, replication if you're doing that, &c. Testing is also important; make sure you back something up and then do a test restore. Set up alerts so you know if things aren't working (or even if they are, always good to know that too).
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Alternatives Considered
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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Veeam Software
We used Zerto and CA Arcserve to address these needs without migrating to Veeam Backup & Replication. Zerto is a very successful instant backup and we are still using it now. It does what Veeam application cannot do in instant replication. CA Arcserve, on the other hand, is clearly lagging behind the Veeam Backup & Replication product and does not meet today's requirements.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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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Veeam Software
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Scalability
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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Veeam Software
In terms of scalability for our company, Veeam was able to cover our backup needs with ease. They have options for even more individualized backup if we were to need them; i.e. if a specific workstation needs its own independent backup. We have not used these resources yet, but I am confident they will be beneficial to our company in the near future.
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Professional Services
Veeam Software
Generally satisfied
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Veeam Software
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Return on Investment
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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Veeam Software
  • Confidence before starting riskier maintenance windows is a large component of what veeam is able to offer for us
  • Some of the segmentation between different backup servers across our data enters causes unnecessary delays or backups that are duplicated unnecessarily
  • Lack of certain storage vendors being natively supported requires hacky workarounds not fit for a production environment
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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.

Veeam Data Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Veeam Backup Community Edition can be used to migrate a live VMware VM to any host or data store—even if clusters or shared storage are not used.Screenshot of Reduces storage needs by eliminating redundant VM data, with Veeam data deduplication.Screenshot of To enable WAN acceleration, the user needs to deploy a pair of WAN accelerators in the backup infrastructureScreenshot of SharePoint items can be located and restored to the original or new SharePoint site, sent by e-mail or saved to the specified locationScreenshot of The user can restore virtual and physical machines from Veeam backups directly to Microsoft Azure.Screenshot of The user can restore Microsoft SharePoint items in a couple of minutes.