AWS Backup vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Backup
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service from AWS, designed to make it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises using the AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup, users can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
$0.01
per GB per month
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
NAKIVO Backup & Replication now also supports Proxmox VE, alongside VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and AWS EC2. It offers replication, failover, cloud backup, backup copy, size reduction, screenshot verification, and site recovery.
$0.80
Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Microsoft 365 User/Month
Pricing
AWS BackupNAKIVO Backup & Replication
Editions & Modules
Backup Storage - Cold Storage
$0.01
per GB per month
Restore - Warm Storage
$0.02
per GB per month
Restore - Cold Storage
$0.03
per GB per month
Backup Storage - Warm Storage
$0.095
per GB per month
Restore - Item-Level Restore
$0.50
per request
Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise (Perpetual)
Starting at $329 per CPU socket
Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. CPU sockets
Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise
Starting $76 per server and $25 per workstation
Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. Server Workstation
Enterprise Plus
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Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise (Subscription)
Starting at $3.5 per workload/month
Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Workload/Month
Pro Essentials/Pro (Perpetual)
Starting at $239 per CPU socket
Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. CPU Socket
Pro Essentials/Pro (Subscription)
Starting at $2.5 per workload/month
Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Workload/Month
Pro Essentials/Pro
Starting at $58 per server and $19 per workstation
Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. Server Workstation
NAKIVO Backup for Microsoft 365
Starting at $0.80 per user/month
Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Microsoft 365 User/Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS BackupNAKIVO Backup & Replication
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA workload is a VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, Nutanix AHV VM, a physical machine (01 server and 03 workstations), an Oracle database, or an Amazon EC2 instance.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
AWS Backup
Chose AWS Backup
We use Rubrik for long-term backup archiving & management, and we use AWS backup for short-term backups.
Chose AWS Backup
The selection process is not final - we are comparing multiple vendors for our backup solution. However, Veeam has been slightly more enticing due to pricing.
Chose AWS Backup
Linode requires a minimum data purchase for their S3 storage solution. While the convenience of being able to mount the drive directly is great, it isn't the best for small amounts of data for our different customers.

I initially tried there other backup solution but they …
Chose AWS Backup
The other method of backups we considered was a scheduled backup of important data to AWS S3 and manual backup of data to a third-party storage (local/other cloud service). It works, but it takes much more time than using AWS Backup. AWS Backup interfaces with AWS services, and …
Chose AWS Backup
I've tried a lot of different products. Backblaze, at least from a birds-eye view is significantly cheaper than AWS/the rest. Backblaze is a little more simpler, but it's well worth it.

Linode also provides backup options, however I'm only familiar with their backup on their …
Chose AWS Backup
because its easy to startup on it and also so easy to use, and again its just a one single place for control, create and recover your instances and environments. Great product overall and a must to have in your infrastructure.
Also we recommend try it and even daily or monthly …
Chose AWS Backup
Being an AWS service, AWS Backup integrates in a native way with other AWS services, providing an easy way to backup those services. Being able to create separate backup plans that meet specific business and regulatory compliance requirements provides us with capabilities to …
Chose AWS Backup
We decided to go with AWS Backup because we already use other products within the AWS suite.
Chose AWS Backup
Well Microsoft Azure is cheaper but that said AWS has more hardware and software partners so that can give a real deep integration to your AWS files. Also AWS also has a lot more support option, and is older and more mature. That said AWS isn't as easy or as pretty as Microsoft …
Chose AWS Backup
AWS Backup is already integrated with a lot of its services so is native option to go without needing third-party software.
Chose AWS Backup
AWS Backup is easy to use and is recommended by the clients and our organization.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Better licensing
Same features but easier to implement
No need for e=xtra licenses to run the server
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
We dont use only one of these, we combine the use of several of them to guarantee the data resilience.
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is way simpler and more flexible to deploy.
It has a much more clearer user interface.
The ability to deploy to a NAS to be backed up to and wide support for devices from different manufacturers.
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
We compared Nakivo with other solutions like Veeam. We have chosen Nakivo even if Veeam has more documentation mostly from the final users , because the product looks easier, cleaner and above all it has a really good price for perpetual licences.
For a lower price we prefer to …
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
It's been a while since I've used Veeam. Originally I found NAKIVO when I felt Veeam's pricing was starting to feel out of reach for our small business.
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
It's good in its UI, easy to configure, and offers very good performance. NAKIVO Backup & Replication stands on top with its UI, or we call it, Administration Console, and provides great performance of its core and modules. Awesome Backup App and a worthy one for its UI!
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a the best option for backup and replication of virtual machines on Nas like Synology while Veeam agent is best for backup of windows servers on disk, or Nas
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Nakivo is an effective-cost solution that allows progressive use according to the needs of our company, in other companies, the cost vs. features are not comparable.

Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Virtual Appliance on VMware vSphere is a great option for first steps in a Backup Solution and it no need some Windows Licenses, like others.
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
The positives of NAKIVO outweigh the negatives in comparison to the other solutions.
As an MSP we need the multi-tenant console, which NAKIVO does perfect for us.
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
I've tried Veeam and Vembu. I personally liked NAKIVO better because you can do a one time license purchase, which I see as a big advantage over subscription based. Their customer support was also better. I personally found the user interface to be easier to use as well. It …
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a cost-effective solution without compromising on features and functionality. I selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication to benefit from its cost-effectiveness, user-friendly interface, versatile platform support, performance optimization, …
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is cheaper and it works as well as more expensive software
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
we had Veeam before purchasing NAKIVO Backup & Replication back in 2019. Veeam was too complicated for us and needed agents to operate. Also the price was higher than that of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. Meanwhile NAKIVO Backup & Replication is agentless. It uses SSH to …
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
synology active backup, qnap backup, buffalo - NOVA backup
Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication stands out as a more cost-effective and robust solution compared to Veeam One. With competitive pricing and a comprehensive feature set including incremental backups, global deduplication, LAN-free data transfer, and built-in WAN acceleration, NAKIVO …
Features
AWS BackupNAKIVO Backup & Replication
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
9.1
Ratings
2% above category average
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
9.8
Ratings
16% above category average
Management dashboard8.50 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Retention options8.60 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Encryption8.60 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Universal recovery00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
8.4
Ratings
2% below category average
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
9.6
Ratings
16% above category average
Operational reporting and analytics8.50 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Malware protection8.50 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
8.6
Ratings
5% below category average
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
-
Ratings
SaaS Product Integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS BackupNAKIVO Backup & Replication
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
AWS [Backup] does what it intends on doing. AWS [Backup] is very fast, however, for that speed, you'll end up with a high bill at the end of the month. Compared to competitors, AWS [Backup] is a lot more expensive than others. However, I believe it makes it up in it's versatility - there's no company more compatible with others than AWS.
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NAKIVO covers all features that we expect and demand from a backup software while keeping the management interface intuitive and straightforward. We can bet on its reliability and, in case we need to prove, there is an easy-to-use mock recovery option that allows VMs to be run directly from the backup (saves space on the virtualization datastore) and connected to dedicated recovery-test network.
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Pros
  • Centralized management - single pane of glass to manage backups for multiple AWS services.
  • Encryption - integrates with KMS to encrypt backup data at rest and in transit.
  • Cross Account management - manage backups across multiple AWS accounts with AWS organizations.
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  • Can be installed natively on nas appliances leveraging the use of underutilized appliances. No need to install the software on Windows or Linux Servers.
  • Backup natively Vmware Virtual Machines and File Shares (you need to buy the right license modules).
  • Destination storage for backups (or of the backup copies) can be Microsoft shares, Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze and remotely to other sites using their transporter vm.
  • To not overload the system with overlapping jobs, they can be chained one after the other.
  • Rapid add/remove/reorder priority of vm to backup and their backup archive. Jobs can be easily changed or chained.
  • Quick support service
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Cons
  • Lacks built-in features for granular recovery, such as files or DB records, without restoring the entire backup.
  • Complexity - managing backups with multiple rules and resources, with limitations on the number of tags and resources per plan.
  • D/R recovery orchestration - does not offer advanced D/R orchestration.
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  • Backups have the option of "screenshot verification". Screenshot verification doesn't always work for us when our vmtools is out of date. If we are on an older version of VMware and that version of vmtools is up to date, NAKIVO still thinks it is out of date.
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Likelihood to Renew
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It is a product that contains most of the features of its big competitors but at an affordable price for small businesses. In addition, the support is very good even if they only have support in English. Another important factor is its compatibility with NAS devices, which greatly simplifies deployment. The implementation is simple and in a matter of minutes you can define the first copy Jobs
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Usability
Overall because I can sell it white labeled and use my white labeled software like CloudBerry and the native backup apps on my synology NAS servers to store things in real time and do duplication and disaster recovery directly to it was game changing for my client in the advertising world they are never down now.
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NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to set up. I did it by myself, and it went perfectly. Online documents are very well written, and also the tech support asked to help me set it up. I want to do it by myself and the setup process is very easy to do. The connection to your VM and servers is very easy to do.
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Support Rating
Support for AWS Backup is by Amazon itself so it is solid as always. If you have a business or higher level support plan you'll have no trouble getting engineers or other staff on the job to help you with whatever comes up.
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The support is fast and perfect. If u have any questions, you can contact the support team via mail or chat and you always get a fast answer. You can also find a lot of help in the FAQ in the help center to resolve your problems. Anytime I had to contact the support, they helped me and solved my problem.
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Implementation Rating
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It is very easy to do in all the formats in which it is implemented, whether as an appliance, in a windows machine, or an implementation in NAS. I only use the appliance one, but I have tried all of them in trial mode to know which one interested me more.
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Alternatives Considered
Linode requires a minimum data purchase for their S3 storage solution. While the convenience of being able to mount the drive directly is great, it isn't the best for small amounts of data for our different customers. I initially tried there other backup solution but they couldn't guarantee where the data would be stored in relation to the server we were using. The risk being an incident in our near our server could result in the loss of our backup as well.
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NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a cost-effective solution without compromising on features and functionality. I selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication to benefit from its cost-effectiveness, user-friendly interface, versatile platform support, performance optimization, advanced features, and storage efficiency.
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Return on Investment
  • With AWS Backup we can restore a resource in minutes
  • With AWS Backup we don't need to worry if a resources is being backed up or not, the plan you can configure can cover all resources
  • With AWS Backup you can plan for Disaster Recovery as it lets you copy the backup to other account or region
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  • One of our contributors has permanently deleted worksheets from our file server. From Nakivo, we were able to recover all the data in less than 10 minutes.
  • An authentication server was encrypted by ransomware, through NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we recover the entire server within 1 hour.
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