We performed a comparison between AWS Backup and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison results: Based on the parameters we compared, Veeam Backup & Replication comes out ahead of AWS Backup. While the two solutions offer valuable backup functions and capabilities, AWS Backup’s need for manual recovery, potentially lengthy setup, and restoration features leave room for improvement.
"It also saves costs and is quick."
"It provides an easy data migration process from on-premise to cloud."
"When I was using an on-premises backup, there was an external hard drive or something like that. I had a backup server, but I had a few problems related to transfer when I had to restore something that I have deleted. I had to wait for after-office hours to do something like that, but now I just have to send a mail. Within one hour, I have my restored file."
"The most valuable features we have found are the flexibility in the services offered."
"It's very easy to configure. Since it's a managed service, it's very straightforward to set up and use. And my customers get on with it very fast."
"The auto-scaling feature and the time efficiency of setting up AWS Backup are the most valuable aspects for us."
"The most valuable feature is its ease of use."
"RDS backup is one of the most crucial components of any client's cloud environment, so we generally use that. Additionally, we store EBS snapshots in S3."
"It's streamlined the backup and recovery for my customers in the sense that it has an easy management console that's easy to set up any type of instant recovery."
"I like that the solution is very simple to install."
"The advantage of Veeam Backup and Replication is that it is very economical. The price is affordable and the cost benefit is good."
"The most valuable feature is the instant recovery."
"It's not complex to replicate and back up the system."
"The replication feature has proven to be the most valuable feature for us."
"The product’s configuration and settings are very easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the recuperation of the weaker machines."
"AWS Backup could improve because you cannot use Glacier or anything but EFS."
"When it comes to encrypting data, it is not so convenient."
"They should work on their visual capabilities."
"One improvement I would like to see in AWS Backup is the implementation of incremental backups."
"If AWS could also add some hybrid cloud features to AWS Backup, that would be a significant improvement. For example, currently, AWS Backup only backs up to the S3 and Amazon Cloud, and you can only restore from the Amazon Cloud only. However, some people have hybrid environments. They have some workloads on-premises and some workloads in the cloud."
"The solution's reporting features and restore features can be improved."
"To create a plan and for all the configuration, one has to do multiple steps, which could be organized in a much simpler way, making the user experience better."
"One of the limitations of AWS Backup is that it only does file-based copying."
"When you have some small issues, you should be able to go through it by yourself and solve the issue instead of opening the ticket and waiting for the engineers to troubleshoot."
"The stability could be better, specifically in the cloud."
"The parallel backup process from the Veeam server to Veeam has some limitations. The number of parallel backups should be increased and the compressional is very low. Sometimes it is half or one-third, but other backup solutions' compression levels are very high."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"The only issue on which we would like to see for improvement would be, potentially, the ability to do some different things with recovery, like faster recovery onsite."
"It's hard to answer because managing cloud storage in our version could be better, but now that they have improved it in the recent version, I cannot say it's a better point because I know it should be already fixed."
"In terms of what could be improved, when creating a backup job with Veeam, you can create a daily backup, but it doesn't do it within that job. It does not give you the ability to also set the terms for monthly and/or weekly backups. It has to be a separate job. It gets clunky to manage the timeframes where you don't want a daily to run on this day and creating weeklies. And you don't want a daily to run on this day doing monthlies. That is hard to deal with. It would be really nice if you could do it through a single command line or a single interface."
"They need a better solution for backend storage."
AWS Backup is ranked 12th in Cloud Backup with 23 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 329 reviews. AWS Backup is rated 8.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Backup writes "Useful point-in-time recovery, highly scalable, and implementation straightforward". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". AWS Backup is most compared with Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Rubrik Go, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Veritas Alta SaaS Protection, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our AWS Backup vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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