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AWS Backup

Overview

What is AWS Backup?

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.…

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Pricing

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Backup Storage - Cold Storage

$0.01

Cloud
per GB per month

Restore - Warm Storage

$0.02

Cloud
per GB per month

Restore - Cold Storage

$0.03

Cloud
per GB per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Data Center Backup

Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication

9
Avg 9.0

Enterprise Backup

Enterprise backup solutions are implemented by IT professionals to automatically and safely backup data hosted on a range of systems (including cloud-native workloads, servers, databases, laptops and mobile devices) to external cloud storage.

8.3
Avg 8.6

SaaS Backup

Software As A Service (SaaS) backup software is a technology designed to store and protect data created by SaaS products.

8.6
Avg 9.1
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Product Details

What is AWS Backup?

AWS Backup Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Management dashboard and Retention options and Encryption highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of AWS Backup are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Backup solution for integrated AWS workflows

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 26, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
2 years of experience
AWS Backup is being used by my project as a method to make regularly scheduled backups of data from various services. It is being used just by the project at this point but it addresses the business problem of disaster recovery and having the capability to restore data that was deleted by accident that may be critical or customer facing.
  • Data backup.
  • Disaster recovery.
Cons
  • Interface.
  • Documentation.
AWS Backup is great for data backup because it solves a lot of data integrity and disaster recovery issues as a centralized backup tool on the Amazon platform. This is really only good if you use AWS as your main infrastructure organization. It is less appropriate in cases where you have data from other systems not covered by AWS.

AWS Backup--automate the backup of your AWS services

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 23, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
2 years of experience
AWS Backup is used as the main backup solution for the core of our system (which is based on AWS infrastructure). AWS Backup is used mainly to back up our servers--and some important data--on regularly scheduled backups. This solution enables us to centralize and automate the backup of all of our AWS services (EBS volumes, EFS file systems, and databases).
  • It does what it supposed to do--backs up data
  • Almost a full solution to disaster recovery
  • Integrates with AWS services
Cons
  • 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)
Backing up your AWS infrastructure and services can be simplified by using AWS Backup, as it provides features to support multiple services. The backup plans can be defined using JSON files (not straightforward) and you can use tags to identify the resources that you need to back up. The main advantage is that all the backups are in one place and that you can see your backup status using AWS Backup dashboard.

AWS Backup the one and only tool you need to keep all safe in AWS

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 31, 2024
We rely on AWS Backup to keep all our resources backed up, whether they be EC2 instances or RDS/Aurora Clusters. We can keep all resources backed up with a plan an retention policies. AWS Backup allows restores easily keeping all the metadata so the restored resource is exactly as the original resource.
  • Back up almost any resource in AWS Backup, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, etc
  • Restore the resource leaving it identical to the original
  • Works with AWS Organization so you can cover all your AWS accounts with a single Plan
Cons
  • Restoring the compute nodes of the cluster should be done always
  • Having the default Roles all the necessary permission, you have to add some depending on your configurations
  • Being able to see the Jobs status in a centralize account more graphically
AWS Backup is well suited for any environment on AWS where you need to protect your resources from disasters, whether human or hardware/software.
If you have on-premises resources is not the best option as AWS Backup is not able to copy all your information from the physical/virtual resources, there are other services for that.

Best Hot Storage.

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 16, 2019
DC
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
2 years of experience
We use AWS Backup for hot backups to store our clients' active projects so they have an active cloud based NAS for their most important doc, emails, and creative projects.
  • Speed
  • Integration
  • Ease of billing
Cons
  • Price
  • Long training and signup process
When dealing with all three types of cloud back ups - AWS is almost the only provider where you can get deep freeze, cold and hot cloud storage from only one provider and have them all integrated between one another. Also they have a large list of third party integrations for programs like CloudBerry and the like to make it even easier.

A single place for your backups

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 12, 2021
cb
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
5 years of experience
Basically we use AWS Backup to complete the cycle of lifetime backups, and also for centraliz[ing] those backups in one place. In first place we used just AMI backups, but when AWS release this service was amazing for us, because we can tag all resource that we want backup for.
  • tag select
  • backup voults
  • Backup plans
Cons
  • add more services to support aws backups
  • optimized the total size of backups (used one)
  • try to make previews of backups
centralized backups in one simple service and place, and for those environments with a big sizes of instances.
its not appropriate when you use try to test some unique instance and you don't need a real retention period for backups. Its totally recommended for RDS environments to improve the existent backups
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