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

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 31, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 p...
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Iván García
Consultant - Professional Services
Consultant
Datum, S.A.
AWS Backup5 years of experience

AWS BACKUP REVIEW.

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 20, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
AWS Backup helps us to take a code Backup automatically, and we can plan the Backup schedules.
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Verified user
Professional
AWS Backup5 years of experience

Pricy, but worth it

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 1, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We used AWS [Backup] as a backup for each server we have. Our data retention policies are fairly strong, and we keep about 3 months of backups in our services. AWS [Backup] wa...
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Matt Hoffman
C-Level Executive - Corporate
Chief Executive Officer
Hoffman Management Group
AWS Backup2 years of experience

A single place for your backups

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 12, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 whe...
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carlos bonilla
Consultant - Information Technology
Office Support Manager
cibernetica
AWS Backup5 years of experience

AWS Backup service

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 21, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use AWS Backup to simplify backup tasks of all our workloads in AWS.
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Oscar Martinez
Technician - Information Technology
DevOps
Aval Digital Labs
AWS Backup1 year of experience
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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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AWS Backup the one and only tool you need to keep all safe in AWS

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 31, 2024
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
AWS Backup Feature Ratings
Data Center Backup (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Management dashboard
90%
9.0
Retention options
100%
10.0
Encryption
100%
10.0
Enterprise Backup (3)
90%
9.0
Operational reporting and analytics
90%
9.0
Malware protection
90%
9.0
Ransomware Recovery
90%
9.0
SaaS Backup (3)
90%
9.0
Multiple Data Restoration Options
90%
9.0
Data Auditing and Search
80%
8.0
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • With AWS Backup we can restore a resource in minutes
  • With AWS Backup we don't need to worry if a resources is being backed up or not, the plan you can configure can cover all resources
  • With AWS Backup you can plan for Disaster Recovery as it lets you copy the backup to other account or region
Usability
10
AWS Backup is so simple to use yet so powerful, it alleviates the burden of having a backup plan and managing all the processes to copy, encrypt and delete historical copies of a resource.
AWS Backup makes easy to restore resource to the original state without having to worry about keeping a copy of the configuration in another tool.
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

A single place for your backups

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 12, 2021
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carlos bonilla
Office Support Manager
cibernetica (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
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
Return on Investment
  • decrease recovery times
  • securely our environments daily and monthly
  • reduce the investment on AMI and S3 backups
Alternatives Considered
because its easy to startup on it and also so easy to use, and again its just a one single place for control, create and recover your instances and environments. Great product overall and a must to have in your infrastructure.
Also we recommend try it and even daily or monthly create a recovery test environment to check the all process in action.
Other Software Used

Best Hot Storage.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 16, 2019
DC
Daniel Cauley
Co-Owner
Dawn till Dusk Tek (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Speed
  • Integration
  • Ease of billing
Cons
  • Price
  • Long training and signup process
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
AWS Backup Feature Ratings
Data Center Backup (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Management dashboard
90%
9.0
Retention options
100%
10.0
Encryption
100%
10.0
Enterprise Backup
N/A
N/A
SaaS Backup
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Being able to offer live hot storage in the cloud for production environments allows me to get more people in the creative space with vast demand for speed.
  • Great integration with all my hardware, firewall and backup software was great.
  • Being able to network path my files like a native drive to my computer from the cloud made the designer not complain so much able learning new stuff.
Usability
9
Overall because I can sell it white labeled and use my white labeled software like CloudBerry and the native backup apps on my synology NAS servers to store things in real time and do duplication and disaster recovery directly to it was game changing for my client in the advertising world they are never down now.
Support Rating
10
With a HUGE online help base, and very knowledgeable and fast support teams. They also have reps on the Spiceworks forums actively helping members in real time and support a very large VAR and MSP / Re seller Networking that are all trained and hyper knowledgeable in the solutions offered by AWS.
Alternatives Considered
Well Microsoft Azure is cheaper but that said AWS has more hardware and software partners so that can give a real deep integration to your AWS files. Also AWS also has a lot more support option, and is older and more mature. That said AWS isn't as easy or as pretty as Microsoft Azure is. For people just starting out I would use Microsoft Azure.
Other Software Used

The go-to service to automate and manage backups across AWS services

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 29, 2019
CB
Chris Barretto
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Cureus (Publishing, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It was primarily being used as our DB backups across the whole organization. We had daily backups as well as rollups of weekly and monthly backups. We could pull application state at any one of those given times.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Integration
  • Compatibility
Cons
  • I've been pleased with everything it has to offer
Likelihood to Recommend
Any scenario where you need to make backups, this is the product for you. It beats the use of old tape drives.
AWS Backup Feature Ratings
Data Center Backup (3)
100%
10.0
Management dashboard
100%
10.0
Retention options
100%
10.0
Encryption
100%
10.0
Enterprise Backup
N/A
N/A
SaaS Backup
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • It was great for digesting QA inquiries and narrowing down specific problems that could only be solved by pulling a backup on a specific date.
Usability
10
Very easy to use and is as plug and play as you can get. There are configuration options for multiple schemas that best fits your organization.
Support Rating
10
I've never had to use their support because documentation has been sufficient.
Alternatives Considered
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
We decided to go with AWS Backup because we already use other products within the AWS suite.
Other Software Used

AWS Backup--automate the backup of your AWS services

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 23, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Other
Environmental Services Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS Backup
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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).
Pros
  • 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)
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Most Important Features
  • Integration with AWS infrastructure and services
  • Centralized backup solution
  • Dashboard to get backup status
Return on Investment
  • Fast integration with other AWS services (but you must learn how to use it)
  • Reduced backup headache
  • Decreased recovery time
Alternatives Considered
The other method of backups we considered was a scheduled backup of important data to AWS S3 and manual backup of data to a third-party storage (local/other cloud service). It works, but it takes much more time than using AWS Backup. AWS Backup interfaces with AWS services, and as long as you use AWS services supported by AWS Backup, it might be the easiest solution to back up data.
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
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