2019-12-12T07:48:00Z

What advice do you have for others considering AWS Backup?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Agron Demiraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-12-06T09:01:03Z
Dec 6, 2023

I rate AWS Backup an eight out of ten. It meets all the international governance compliance. It is easier to use and set up. It doesn't require any maintenance. It provides an easy data migration process from on-premise to cloud. I strongly recommend AWS Backup over other products.

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GauravMukerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-09-29T08:44:58Z
Sep 29, 2023

I've exclusively worked with your cloud-native solutions, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. These are all cloud-native backups and services. Before 2017-2018, I was primarily in your data center space, where we used Spectrum Protect and IBM SAN. We have a partnership with AWS. We provide managed services for our clients. We expect the customer to have already procured the product and to have a relationship with the vendor. We are a certified MSP for AWS, Azure, and Google. The solution is a fully managed service. You have to monitor whether the backups are running regularly or not. There are monitoring solutions provided by the AWS. The maintenance is relatively easy and good. If you are using AWS applications, use AWS Backup. It does not make sense to use a different backup solution on AWS. You can monitor the storage tiering behind your backups, significantly impacting your costs. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Aditya Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-09-28T05:30:37Z
Sep 28, 2023

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I didn't give it a ten because it only supports Amazon Cloud.

LR
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-09-18T07:23:09Z
Sep 18, 2023

Since people prefer the same vendor, I would suggest AWS Backup to other users. Overall, I rate AWS Backup a seven out of ten.

Ahmad Jallad - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5
2023-07-25T16:50:00Z
Jul 25, 2023

Since it's a new product, you don't have community forums that give more details about what's happening and the errors. I don't know what AWS Backup's features are, but if it works and if the customer has VMware and wants to back up data from VMware directly to AWS, they need to try it by downloading the gateway and seeing if it backs up seamlessly without any issues. If their connection is good enough, that is because I remember one of the issues was with the Internet bandwidth. In the Caribbean, the bandwidth was not good enough for some customers to back up all the VMs over the Internet all the time. That's one of the reasons we skip that, and we charge for that every time you download the backup. AWS will charge the customer. I rate AWS Backup a seven out of ten.

AK
Real User
Top 5
2023-07-05T09:14:00Z
Jul 5, 2023

It is not a bad solution. It majorly depends on your organization, as each tool has its own flaws and advantages. If you take direct support from Amazon, you might have a better experience. In our case, we are dependent on the vendor which has delays. However, we are working to change it. I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

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Janitha Vidusanka - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-06-07T06:43:00Z
Jun 7, 2023

The solution is easy to use. I rate it a nine out of ten.

Vijay Pratap Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-04-28T07:19:00Z
Apr 28, 2023

A person can use it as much as possible, especially if you use Amazon Cloud. Also, the solution is one of the best services provided by AWS. Since it's a managed service and depends on whether you have applications on the cloud, especially on AWS Cloud, I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

Bas De Natris - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 10
2023-04-03T15:15:00Z
Apr 3, 2023

I recommend the solution to both SMEs and large enterprises. I advise them to have sufficient AWS knowledge or involve a good service partner because it requires more work if they buy third-party products. I rate the solution as a seven.

Sesha Srinivas Goodala - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-02-04T01:22:40Z
Feb 4, 2023

Whether we recommend this solution depends on the client's requirements. It is efficient, robust, cost-effective, and resilient. In general, it is something I would tell potential users to look at. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

DS
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-31T14:46:52Z
Aug 31, 2022

This is a product that I can recommend for scenarios that are not too complex. For situations where one consultant wants to manage different on-premises backups in a multi-cloud environment, they require different products. Not a single solution, like AWS Backup. My advice for anybody who is implementing this product is to pay attention to the data transfer across different availabilities and different regions because it can be a very high cost. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

MC
Real User
Top 20
2022-06-06T19:34:25Z
Jun 6, 2022

If you don't have a comprehensive backup strategy I would recommend AWS Backup. I rate AWS Backup an eight out of ten. I would give a higher rating if we could use Glacier. We have to keep all these backups around for years, it costs a lot of money. If we were able to keep the data in Glacier it would save a lot of costs.

PM
Consultant
2021-11-09T17:30:31Z
Nov 9, 2021

When comparing AWS Backup to any other backup solutions at the present time. If your product or if your systems are already on AWS, it would be highly recommended to go ahead with the AWS backend. If your systems are not on AWS, then you can choose any other cloud platform, such as Micro Focus Backup tools. I would rate the solution higher if the reporting was available. However, it's a pretty new product for Amazon as well. We do understand the complexities, but there are other certain factors that we have seen that are causing us some difficulties, such as we cannot directly download files from S3. We have to utilize the AWS backend and only then can we download the files. If they can add this feature, it would be very helpful to allow us the direct download of files from S3 and then we can restore it directly on the HANA. I rate AWS Backup an eight out of ten.

JS
Real User
2020-08-19T07:57:00Z
Aug 19, 2020

For me, it's great. I would rate AWS Backup a nine out of ten.

AS
Real User
2020-05-25T07:16:00Z
May 25, 2020

My advice to someone considering this solution is to use it for its disaster recovery capabilities. I would rate it an eight out of ten. In the next release, I would like that when a backup fails, for it to try again automatically, which is doesn't do now. I would also like to have the ability to do a partial backup of the server.

SK
Real User
2020-04-23T10:13:00Z
Apr 23, 2020

We have found that in terms of cloud preference, our customers are more inclined to use AWS. This is one of the reasons that AWS Backup is popular. Overall, AWS Backup is easy to use and I find that it is a good product. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

JB
Real User
2020-01-22T12:44:00Z
Jan 22, 2020

The suitability of this solution for backup and recovery depends on the requirements. I would only recommend it for organizations that need a very simple solution. There is a lot of work that they need to do in the backup space because, at this time, it only does very basic backups. They don't appear to be prioritizing the building of a robust backup solution. It seems that they are more interested in having us work with another vendor, rather than them creating something that is already available. I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

CG
Real User
Top 5
2019-12-12T07:48:00Z
Dec 12, 2019

We use the public cloud deployment model. I'd recommend new users implement the solution on a UC server if they use one. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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