What is AWS Backup?
AWS Backup is a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that simplifies data protection at scale.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+97 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love AWS Backup?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Feature Ratings
Backup Automation
Backup of Cloud Based Data
Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms
Backup Monitoring and Reporting
Virtual Machine Backup
Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery
Analytics
AI Tech Support
Replication for High Availability
Deduplication Implementation
Automated Backup Testing and Verification
Vendor Capability Ratings
Breadth of Features
Business Value Created
Vendor Support
Quality of Features
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
AWS Backup Reviews
Frank R. C.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2025
AWS Backup for Corporate Protection
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?
The most significant strength is a centralized console, which consolidates multiple backup tasks among various services of AWS. This integration makes it easy to schedule, monitor, and track the backups from a central location to enhance the identification and elimination of hitches. One more significant differentiation is a set of lifecycle policies and automation that allow for managing data retention, archives, or deletion without too much involvement of the user. In addition to the overall sector reliability, AWS Backup is well-secured by Amazon’s security measures to prevent the data from sensitive brand values leaking.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like most about AWS Backup is its capability of backing up loads of work, such as database backup and file storage, and having the capability to execute all of them under one solution. It just grows with the brand’s increasing amounts of data and becomes a kind of flexible safety net for every new campaign or dataset. This aids in creating a highly secure space through strong IAM control, as it makes mine and other administrators’ lives easier whenever one needs to schedule or check for backups in a rush with its simple and easy-to-understand interface.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is a need to improve the offered level of backup performance’s trend analysis for the different types of data. If there were more detailed information, it would enable the teams in charge of marketing to propose the most suitable strategies for each type of workload. These would be filled by the proposed new IMA reporting and analytics to increase usability and so support decisions.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
With its features, I ensure my assets are protected against loss while keeping up with the continuous running of campaigns. It has been incredibly useful in archiving large media files ranging from picture images to timely promotional materials. Every time I launch new projects and see socialization of content in action, I am relieved to have AWS Backup on the back burner in case anything needs recovery, with great ease.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Abhishek A.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2024
A fantastic tool to keep data secure on server.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?
I am using Amazon AWS for my default backup software and haven't use other softwares in the same category.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the self backup feature which keeps updating time to time to keeptmy important data secure in the AWS Cloud server. The pricing is quite justifiable in this segment when considering other tools in the category.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be brought to more customers eyes which can make it more usable in different businesses.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would definitely recommend this tool to be tried by businesses who really want to keep their data safe in a secure server.
Pros
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
Sahil Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
Great feature and easier to install
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?
Ease of integration and complete control and evaluation as per the architecture
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ease of integration and implementation
What do you dislike most about this product?
Pricing as compared to the other counter parts
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Very useful with respect to Cloud architecture and ease of snapshot retrieval
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing