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AWS Backup

Score8.4 out of 10

142 Reviews and Ratings

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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. 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features AWS Backup has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 142 ratings of AWS Backup's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises

    Backed up data may be stored on-premises or in the cloud

    Category average: 8.5

  • Management dashboard

    Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups

    Category average: 8.1

  • Retention options

    Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • SaaS Product Integration

    Integration with and backup capabilities for one or more SaaS products

    Category average: 8.2

  • Data Auditing and Search

    eDiscovery capabilities for searching and managing stored data

    Category average: 8

  • Ransomware Recovery

    The ability to recovery data in a timely manner after a ransomware attack

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about AWS Backup.
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AWS Backup the one and only tool you need to keep all safe in AWS

Incentivized
Iván GarcíaView profile
Consultant in Professional Services at Datum, S.A. (11-50 employees employees)

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

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

Alternatives Considered

Veem

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

AWS backup - Improving Service for short term needs.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Short-term retention backups for Production, Development, and UAT are used for backups that do not require long-term monthly archiving.

Pros

  • Centralized management - single pane of glass to manage backups for multiple AWS services.
  • Encryption - integrates with KMS to encrypt backup data at rest and in transit.
  • Cross Account management - manage backups across multiple AWS accounts with AWS organizations.

Cons

  • Lacks built-in features for granular recovery, such as files or DB records, without restoring the entire backup.
  • Complexity - managing backups with multiple rules and resources, with limitations on the number of tags and resources per plan.
  • D/R recovery orchestration - does not offer advanced D/R orchestration.

Return on Investment

  • Good compliance features.
  • Operational - native improves operation efficiency.
  • Data protection - encryption at rest & in transit.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Rubrik and Veeam Backup for AWS

AWS BACKUP REVIEW.

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Automated process.
  • Safe and Security of data.
  • Easy to use the dashboard.
  • Architecture can be improved.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Backup

Other Software Used

Azure Backup

Pricy, but worth it

Incentivized
Matt HoffmanView profile
Chief Executive Officer in Corporate at Hoffman Management Group (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Backups - it's what it does.

Cons

  • Unable to organize folders. Maybe this is just something basic, but I was unable to move files around. I was doing everything manually, on the AWS site to no avail.

Return on Investment

  • Allowed us to keep our data retention policies, and allow them to be stricter

Alternatives Considered

Linode, Backblaze, Google Drive and Dropbox

Other Software Used

Backblaze, Linode, Google Drive

A single place for your backups

Incentivized
carlos bonilla
Office Support Manager in Information Technology at cibernetica (11-50 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

  • decrease recovery times
  • securely our environments daily and monthly
  • reduce the investment on AMI and S3 backups

Alternatives Considered

AWS CloudFormation, AWS Chatbot, AWS Secrets Manager and Amazon GuardDuty

Other Software Used

AWS Chatbot, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS CloudFormation