AWS Backup Reviews & Product Details

What I like most about AWS Backup is that it offers a single, centralized way to manage backups across multiple AWS resources. Rather than setting up backup policies separately for each service, we can create backup plans with schedules, lifecycle policies, and retention rules all in one place.

It also supports backup vaults, encryption with AWS KMS, cross-region backups, cross-account backup copies, and automated compliance reporting. Together, these capabilities make it a strong fit for enterprise environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While AWS Backup simplifies backup management, restoring large datasets or cross-region backups can take time depending on the workload. Some advanced recovery scenarios still require service-specific knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about AWS Backup is how it centralizes and automates what is usually a very fragmented, manual process. Instead of managing backups separately across services, you can define policies once and apply them across resources like EBS, RDS, and DynamoDB. The built-in scheduling, retention rules, and cross-region/cross-account backup capabilities make it easy to stay compliant and resilient without constant oversight. It basically turns backup management into a “set it and trust it” system, which is a huge win for both efficiency and risk reduction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the biggest downsides of AWS Backup is that it can feel overly complex and not very transparent when something goes wrong. Error messages and job failures aren’t always easy to diagnose, which can slow down troubleshooting. The pricing model can also be a bit opaque, especially when you factor in cross-region storage and restore costs. On top of that, while it centralizes backups, not every AWS service is equally supported or configurable, so you sometimes still have to manage edge cases outside the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used AWS Backup at one of my workplaces a couple of years ago. At the time, I was building a solid cloud foundations module to be deployed in a customer’s AWS environment. They needed a fully managed solution for EC2, RDS, and DynamoDB backups and we used AWS Backup for that.

AWS Backup integrated well with all the services I wanted to backup within the environment and it was easy to use with Terraform. I think we saved a lot of time and money by not going the custom backup solution route. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I didn’t see many downsides to it. At the time, the only real issue was that the Terraform providers were slightly out of date, which became an extra consideration for me when working with AWS Backup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rather than juggling separate backup setups for EC2, RDS, and DynamoDB, this lets us manage everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the more advanced backup workflows still feel a bit restricted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Backup is easy-to-use and learn how to use it for the new users. The customer support has been very helpful and responsive incase of any issues. AWS Backup makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. It enables us to create backup policies, define backup schedules, and manage backups across multiple AWS accounts and regions from a single console.

Point-in-recovery and support resources.

Disaster recovery.

Data monitoring and reporting capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Backup could be less expensive. Nevertheless I am happy and satisfied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Backup is very useful in my organization because it provides hot backup to store our clients active projects so that they can have an active cloud based NAS for their most important documents, emails and projects. Great integration with all my hardware, firewall and backup software. Great customer support. Proactive and supportive24/7. Speed. Ease of use and learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price can be a little bit higher than its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Backup has been a great tool that helps us to simplify backup tasks of all our workloads with features to support multiple services. The dashboard is helping us a lot with information to audit backup and restore activity.

Automated configuration management from API.

Centralized management of backup plans per account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing can be a big dislike. Nevertheless I am enjoying this tool with the top-notch security of our data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS backup is helpful in recovering cloud data loss whenever required. Upside is restoring data at faster rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limited features like creating AWS backup file only at EC2 instance & S3 level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once the backup is done, so multiple copies are available and restored in any place as per need. Cloud features providing data everywhere in the world. important data never lost and always secure. using cloud technology work more fast and reliable. with in the cloud infrastructure bandwith distribution and access of resources are very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow upload and download from the cloud and expensive in terms of money. heavy payment on every single services of AWS. if no internet unable to connect with infrastructure. slwoness during work due to latency and provisioning infrastruture both are more in trouble if bandwith issue. which is not good and i dislike in AWS cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very easy to setup backup for our Instance and Volume. In a click, we schedule our job for taking backup. Automated retention management is a good feature, we can set the retention period based on our requirement. We can easily track each job for the backup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We cant add a new instance or a new volume to an existing job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.