AWS Backup Reviews & Ratings 2025

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

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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...

Iván García

Consultant - Professional Services

Consultant

Datum, S.A.

5 years of experience

AWS BACKUP REVIEW.

Rating: 8 out of 10

December 20, 2024

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AWS Backup helps us to take a code Backup automatically, and we can plan the Backup schedules.

Verified user

Professional

5 years of experience

Pricy, but worth it

Rating: 6 out of 10

April 1, 2021

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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...

Matt Hoffman

C-Level Executive - Corporate

Chief Executive Officer

Hoffman Management Group

2 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...

carlos bonilla

Consultant - Information Technology

Office Support Manager

cibernetica

5 years of experience

AWS Backup service

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 21, 2019

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We use AWS Backup to simplify backup tasks of all our workloads in AWS.

Oscar Martinez

Technician - Information Technology

DevOps

Aval Digital Labs

1 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

8
SaaS Product Integration
(1) Ratings
Integration with and backup capabilities for one or more SaaS products
8.5
Multiple Data Restoration Options
(2) Ratings
Multiple options for recovering all of your stored data or individual objects
8
Data Auditing and Search
(2) Ratings
eDiscovery capabilities for searching and managing stored data
10
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises
(2) Ratings
Backed up data may be stored on-premises or in the cloud

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Product Details

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What is AWS Backup?

AWS Backup Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

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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AWS is a reliable, easy off-site backup solution.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 27, 2021

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

E-Learning Company, 1-10 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

7 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The whole organization uses AWS Backup to ensure our important files are kept safe. It [has] saved my butt a few times with a few poorly chosen delete commands. Our cloud providers offers a backup solution but they don't guarantee the location of the data. A fire at their data center could result in the loss of our data, so we chose AWS for our offsite solution.

We also suffered a complete loss of data at our cloud providers and despite their best attempts to get the files back, we had to rely on our backups at AWS to get our services back up and running.

We've also implemented AWS [Backup] for a few of our customers looking for offsite backups.

Pros

Redundant
Offsite
Upload and forget
Easy retrieval

Cons

Some parts of the user interface can be a bit daunting

Likelihood to Recommend

There is a cost involved with data retrieval. AWS Backup is truly that, a backup. If you need to access this data on a regular basis, there are better options out there.

For long term, just in case incremental backups, AWS [Backup] checks all the boxes. Just set it up, start your backups, and rest assured your data is safe.

Most Important Features

Redundancy
Reliability
Relative ease of use

Return on Investment

Offsite means a failure at our cloud provider means we can redeploy quickly to another data center or another provider quickly.
The cost can't be best.
Pay only for what you use. No need to pay for extra data that you don't need.
No minimums

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Linode

Linode requires a minimum data purchase for their S3 storage solution. While the convenience of being able to mount the drive directly is great, it isn't the best for small amounts of data for our different customers.

I initially tried there other backup solution but they couldn't guarantee where the data would be stored in relation to the server we were using. The risk being an incident in our near our server could result in the loss of our backup as well.

Other Software Used

osTicket, Moodle, Adobe Captivate

Backup solution for integrated AWS workflows

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2020

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

2 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Data backup.
Disaster recovery.

Cons

Interface.
Documentation.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Return on Investment

Solid disaster recovery solution.
Automated backups.

Support Rating

9

Support for AWS Backup is by Amazon itself so it is solid as always. If you have a business or higher level support plan you'll have no trouble getting engineers or other staff on the job to help you with whatever comes up.

Other Software Used

AWS Glue, AWS Self-Paced Labs, Dropbox Business

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

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

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

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)

AWS BACKUP REVIEW.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2024

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology Services Company, 51-200 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS Backup helps us to take a code Backup automatically, and we can plan the Backup schedules.

Pros

It is a centralized cloud storage system so we can access easily.
Stores the data in encrypted format.
Scheduling the backup is easy.

Cons

Cost is higher.
Backup architecture can be improved.
Recovery time should be reduced.

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS backup is widely famous and recommended across IT people for storing the codes and taking back the Database at scheduled time intervals. It makes IT people's lives easier.