We performed a comparison between AWS Backup and Cohesity DataProtect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Backup solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of AWS Backup are point-in-time recovery and support resources."
"It is highly scalable for both SMEs and large enterprises."
"The most valuable feature is the daily incremental site backup."
"The replication in the recovery region is the most valuable feature."
"It provides an easy data migration process from on-premise to cloud."
"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."
"The most valuable features we have found are the flexibility in the services offered."
"The most valuable feature is its ease of use."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"Cohesity DataProtect is easy to deploy and operate."
"By using their Helios Cloud service, you have all your clusters, no matter where they are located, in one web portal."
"We are saving valuable datacenter rack space, which is critical as we evaluate co-location options."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"The recovery process is effective, especially when it comes to other types of data, such as VMs, and overall, the performance is commendable."
"They should work on their visual capabilities."
"One of the limitations of AWS Backup is that it only does file-based copying."
"This backup tool does the full backup of the entire snapshot server. I would like to have the option to not do the full server backup."
"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."
"The tool is a good fit if your environment is VM-specific. However, it might not be the most suitable option if you have physical servers or an on-premise setup."
"AWS Backup could improve because you cannot use Glacier or anything but EFS."
"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 notifications on the backup and on the mobile app could be more useful. If they could arrange notes or notifications properly and offer services for managing it in our region, it would be helpful for us."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."
"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"Better support for legacy platforms would be nice, but we should be moving off those anyway."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."
AWS Backup is ranked 12th in Cloud Backup with 23 reviews while Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 7th in Cloud Backup with 69 reviews. AWS Backup is rated 8.0, while Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0. 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 Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". AWS Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Rubrik Go and Druva inSync, whereas Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup. See our AWS Backup vs. Cohesity DataProtect report.
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