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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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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 Encryption highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of AWS Backup are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
  • Solid disaster recovery solution.
  • Automated backups.
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.
November 21, 2019

AWS Backup service

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AWS Backup to simplify backup tasks of all our workloads in AWS.
  • Easy backup tasks definition and operation.
  • Automated configuration management from API.
  • Centralized management of backup plans per account.
  • Pricing.
  • Centralized management across multiple accounts.
Backing up cloud workloads can be simplified by using AWS Backup as it provides features to support multiple services. Backup plans can be defined easily by json files and it's great to use tags to identify the resources to be backed up. The dashboard helps a lot with information to audit backup and restore activity.
Data Center Backup (3)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Management dashboard
90%
9.0
Retention options
90%
9.0
Encryption
100%
10.0
Enterprise Backup
N/A
N/A
SaaS Backup
N/A
N/A
  • We use a lot of AWS services, so backup goals are now simpler to achieve.
  • We let auditors access the dashboard to check backup status.
Being an AWS service, AWS Backup integrates in a native way with other AWS services, providing an easy way to backup those services. Being able to create separate backup plans that meet specific business and regulatory compliance requirements provides us with capabilities to face auditing processes.
AWS support service is very good as they are very customer oriented.
Chris Barretto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Ease of use
  • Integration
  • Compatibility
  • I've been pleased with everything it has to offer
Any scenario where you need to make backups, this is the product for you. It beats the use of old tape drives.
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
  • 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.
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.
I've never had to use their support because documentation has been sufficient.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
We decided to go with AWS Backup because we already use other products within the AWS suite.
August 16, 2019

Best Hot Storage.

Daniel Cauley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
  • 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.
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
  • 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.
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.
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.
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.
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