We performed a comparison between AWS Backup and Zerto 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 feature is the daily incremental site backup."
"The solution's most valuable features are its backup capability and tight integration with other AWS services."
"It also saves costs and is quick."
"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."
"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 feature is its ease of use."
"AWS Backup's most valuable feature is that you can configure it remotely to create backups."
"It is highly scalable for both SMEs and large enterprises."
"Managing the system is easy and reliable, you can choose any VM you want to replicate to your DR Site in Combination with other VM's."
"The most valuable aspect of Zerto is the recovery speed."
"The most valuable for us and for my company is that we are replicating most of our production customers to the DR site, and we can do testing whenever we want."
"It is cost-effective and stable. It protects virtual machines, and there is a fast recovery time."
"If we had to deal with a ransomware event, Zerto would be one of the first things I would use, because it is going to be the fastest to restore data to a certain point. If there were a fire in our building, Zerto would be a big thing too, because we would shut down everything that's in our building. In most cases, Zerto is definitely one of the front lines. It's definitely going to be one of our prevalent DRBC layers of protection."
"The disaster recovery features are the best I've found."
"You can set the number of days a VM can be rolled back in case of corruption or virus infection."
"I like that the failover is simple and that it's a stable platform. It makes it easy for us to do failovers in the event that we have an issue. It also makes it easier to do test failovers because we can test it prior to actually doing a real failover. This means that we can pull things back or commit them over on the other side. Zerto streamlines the process instead of having to have a whole team of people who are dedicated to disaster recovery."
"When it comes to encrypting data, it is not so convenient."
"AWS Backup could improve because you cannot use Glacier or anything but EFS."
"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."
"There are some limitations to partial backup in AWS Backup."
"The service disconnects a lot."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"One improvement I would like to see in AWS Backup is the implementation of incremental backups."
"It requires a lot of time to connect the snapshot, identify the files, and restore a single file manually."
"Improvements in Zerto's user interface and the addition of advanced features such as artificial intelligence or machine learning for predicting ransomware attacks and workload requirements would be beneficial."
"I would like them to add a VM host replication option. Being able to replicate host configuration between sites would be a huge benefit."
"One improvement that could make it easier would be to have an easier way to track journal usage and a little bit more training around journal sizing. I've done all the training and the journal is still a gray area. There is confusion surrounding how it's billed and how we should bill clients. It would be easier if it had billing suggestions or billing best practices for our clients to make sure that we're not leaving money on the table."
"We have had some issues with trying to get certain parts of the backup or restore functionality to work."
"There are still some pieces in testing that aren't automated. There are still some built-in scripts or workflows I wish Zerto would do out-of-the-box, versus having to PowerShell or have a vendor create it, or create it myself."
"The alerting has room for improvement as it is the biggest pain point with the software. It is so bad. It is just general alerting on or off. There are so many emails all the time. You have no control over it, which is terrible. It is the worst part of the entire application. I have voiced this to Zerto hundreds of times for things like feature changes. Apparently, it's coming, but there is nothing concrete as to when you can do it."
"Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site."
"They had a bug recently that has come up and caused some issues. They currently have a bug in their production versions that prevents their product from functioning in some scenarios, and we have hit a few of those scenarios."
AWS Backup is ranked 12th in Cloud Backup with 23 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 238 reviews. AWS Backup is rated 8.0, while Zerto 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 Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". AWS Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Rubrik Go and Druva Phoenix, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our AWS Backup vs. Zerto report.
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