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."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 of AWS Backup are point-in-time recovery and support resources."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is its ease of use."
"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 solution's most valuable features are its backup capability and tight integration with other AWS services."
"The solution has an effective overwrite feature."
"The continuous data protection is great. We love it because I can see exactly how many seconds behind real-time we are, which is usually under 10 seconds. It keeps things up to date. We love the product."
"The way we can use checkpoints from each VM to restore them is an excellent feature, and the replication is great."
"You can set the number of days a VM can be rolled back in case of corruption or virus infection."
"Its automation and the ability to replicate and keep an RTO of just seconds is valuable. It is all automatic. Everything is pretty transparent on the backend. It is just point-and-go."
"The biggest benefit is the application-consistent disaster recovery functionality."
"It has enabled DR protection for virtual appliances with minimal administrator time."
"The UI is straightforward. It makes it very simple to group our resources and understand that our production workloads are covered because we can set them up as granular or as non-granular as we want."
"I found the very easy VPG setup, the easy recovery, and failover testing to be the most valuable features."
"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 AWS Backup backend reporting is a major area that needs improvement. We would be very excited if we can see some reporting, such as trends. We do understand that there are reports available for S3 Bucket, in which the AWS backend stores the data. However, if we can receive holistic reporting, then it would be very helpful for us."
"There could be a centralized dashboard with a reporting feature notifying us of daily backup status."
"There are some limitations to partial backup in AWS Backup."
"If AWS Backup were a hybrid solution that also supported on-premises backups then it would be very helpful, especially if you are doing a migration to the cloud."
"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."
"It requires a lot of time to connect the snapshot, identify the files, and restore a single file manually."
"For additional functionalities, it should be more intelligent, like more AI-capabilities."
"We wanted to shut down the dev environment to focus on the prod environment. We couldn't find any option in Zerto to do that."
"Zerto should add the capability to replicate the same VM to multiple sites."
"I'm not sure if it has throttling, meaning, what's going over the wire and how we can throttle that to reduce the amount of data that's going across the bandwidth. I can't remember if that's something that's in this product. It might be in the more recent version."
"It needs to support more public cloud."
"Zerto's price has room for improvement."
"Zerto's connectivity with automation platforms could be improved. For example, vCenter can use a VMware-developed tool called Site Recovery Manager. That can be integrated with automation platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, to perform automated, self-sufficient recoveries to essentially avoid any downtime. To my knowledge, Zerto does not have integration with those platforms."
"The biggest pain points we have experienced are related to some of the SQL-intensive workloads just because the VPGs struggle a little bit to keep up. That might be because we are pushing too many transactions."
"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."
AWS Backup is ranked 12th in Cloud Backup with 22 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 235 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 and Rubrik Go, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud. See our AWS Backup vs. Zerto report.
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