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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Azure Backup comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.3
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery offers cost-effective integration and protection, reducing downtime and expenses without needing additional hardware.
Sentiment score
5.6
Azure Backup offers security, stability, and cost efficiency with low upfront costs, though ROI depends on organization size.
However, with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service being a native service, integration is seamless, highlighting the return on investment.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.0
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery receives praise for excellent customer service, effective issue resolution, and timely enterprise-level support.
Sentiment score
10.0
Azure Backup support is generally satisfactory but inconsistent, with slow resolutions and communication barriers impacting customer satisfaction.
In case of any issue, they are ready to provide support within the defined SLA timeline.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is praised for adaptability and scalability, with positive feedback on data replication and performance consistency.
Sentiment score
8.5
Azure Backup excels in scalability, supporting diverse environments and large volumes, though some suggest improvements in newer regions.
Azure Backup is scalable since it is a global solution.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is stable and reliable, despite occasional server issues and concerns over high data replication costs.
Sentiment score
7.4
Azure Backup is reliable with a 95% success rate, though some issues arise with VMware integration and network connectivity.
It is very good and very reliable.
AWS is not difficult, but the cost associated with replicating data to another region can be significant.
Azure Backup is stable for Microsoft environments.
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery needs enhanced UI, automation, issue logging, and affordability, with desired AI-driven features and streamlined processes.
Azure Backup struggles with UI clarity, integration, high costs, slow restores, and lacks comprehensive automation and continuous backup features.
This would detail user activity directly in the ACL console for easier debugging and auditing.
In AWS Disaster Recovery Service, these details are not available, making it difficult to check my replication status.
It is not a perfect tool for restoring SQL databases since it requires replacing everything instead of restoring specific files.
The reporting functionality of Azure Backup needs improvement.
 

Setup Cost

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery provides flexible tiered pricing, but cumulative costs and inflexible contracts can be drawbacks for some users.
Azure Backup offers flexible, consumption-based pricing, viewed as affordable compared to AWS, with special options for extended commitments.
Azure Backup is expensive relative to the value we get from it.
 

Valuable Features

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery offers seamless, reliable, and cost-effective cloud replication, ensuring protection, scalability, and security for critical workloads.
Azure Backup offers secure, scalable, and cost-effective data protection with easy configuration, rapid recovery, and cross-region backups.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service is a native service, integration is seamless.
The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its simplicity.
We use the normal features for Azure Backup, specifically to make backups of the VMs.
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
26th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (19th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (14th)
Azure Backup
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
11th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Backup is 3.4%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Vijay Londhe - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed services with seamless integration and good reliability
Since I have to view everything on the console, the previous application solutions like IBM and Sanavi showed the RPO and RTO status directly. In AWS Disaster Recovery Service, these details are not available, making it difficult to check my replication status. I have to calculate whether my data is replicated to the Adarabad region or not. These features, if available in AWS, would be beneficial.
Terry Tull - PeerSpot reviewer
Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place
I would rate the easiness of the initial setup as an eight out of ten. Setting up Azure Backup was pretty straightforward, especially if you follow the steps in the right order. It might seem a bit complex at first, but with experience, subsequent setups become easier. Planning is key to optimizing its effectiveness. Deploying Azure Backup typically takes around half an hour to an hour to set up one VM, involving creating a recovery services vault, defining a backup policy, and configuring storage options. For a more comprehensive setup including proper recovery planning, it might take a few hours. The key steps involve creating a resource group, and a recovery services vault, selecting a storage type, and defining backup policies. I deployed the solution myself.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
12%
Healthcare Company
10%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
The setup is actually managed by our partner. I have taken a rate of per user. Licensing is completely managed by the partner. I am paying per user and per GB storage cost, while the infrastructure...
What needs improvement with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
In its current state, ECL integrates with CloudWatch for basic logging and monitoring, yet improvements could include more detailed logs for specific actions, like when I perform actions such as pu...
How does Azure Backup differ from Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Vee...
What do you like most about Azure Backup?
Azure Backup is easy to configure and restore.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Backup?
Azure Backup is expensive relative to the value we get from it. I do not have specific details about the licensing cost as it falls under another department.
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
Russell Reynolds Associates, Somerset County Council, Kardem, PCL Construction
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