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AWS Backup

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10
Category
AWS Backup
8.5 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

AWS Backup won the following awards in the Backup and Availability category

AWS Backup Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+99 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?

0% Negative
0% Neutral
100% Positive

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Virtual Machine Backup

92

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

89

Backup Automation

86

Application Awareness

84

File Explorer Granular Restore

79

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of Implementation

89

Ease of Data Integration

87

Breadth of Features

87

Quality of Features

85

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Business Value Created

84

Vendor Support

84

Ease of Customization

83

Ease of IT Administration

81

Availability and Quality of Training

78

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

76

AWS Backup Reviews

Mayuresh T.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Protect Your Data - AWS Backup

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

AWS Backup offers different ways to recover your data. You can restore data at different levels, like whole volumes, databases, tables, or even individual files. It also allows you to recover data from specific backup instances based on the exact point in time you want to restore from.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AWS Backup works well with other AWS services like AWS IAM, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS CloudFormation. This seamless integration improves security, allows for better tracking of backup activities, and makes it easier to manage backups within your existing AWS workflows.

What do you dislike most about this product?

AWS Backup makes backup management easier, it may not be suitable for all advanced or complex backup needs. In such cases, additional configuration and setup might be required. It's important to assess the complexity of your backup requirements and ensure that AWS Backup can effectively meet your specific needs before implementation.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Before fully implementing AWS Backup, it is recommended to start with a small-scale test called a proof-of-concept (POC) or pilot project. This allows you to try out AWS Backup in a controlled environment to assess how well it performs, how compatible it is with your existing setup, and how easy it is to use.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service
  • Inspires Innovation

Henry E.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

Awesome Backup service

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

Using Amazon Backup can make backing up your AWS infrastructure and services easier because it has functionality to support a variety of services. 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

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy of usage and easy backup tasks definition and operation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

So far, so good, it works perfectly for me to back up all I need to backup so for me, there's really nothing to dislike about the product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Any scenario where you need to make backups, this is the product for you. Using Amazon Backup can make backing up cloud workloads easier because it has functionality to support many different services.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Sandeep V.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Amazing service for backup in AWS cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Backup from other similar products?

AWS backups provides ease of configuration the EBS and disk of EC2, to create the daily snapshots is super easy to cretae it

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to backup and restore, it can integrate with many other resources as well, it provides easy fictional and great rocking structure

What do you dislike most about this product?

User interface could be a little more complete and response time via high mail, a lot of time is wasted when making the initial backup

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It should provide the amazing data application storage for both cloud and on Prem, It needs to improve the UI

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service
  • Inspires Innovation

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