Top 5 AWS Cloud Backup Solutions for Large Enterprises

Analyst company DCIG, LLC announces the availability of the 2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 AWS Cloud Backup Solution Large Enterprise Edition report.

This report evaluated the features of 15 solutions across 5 different categories that provide backup for AWS. It provides guidance on the top 5 solutions organizations should consider for protecting applications, data, and workloads hosted in AWS. It is available at no charge with registration.

AWS Maintains Cloud Leadership Position
Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure continues to experience double digit growth. Between 2021 and 2022, spending in the overall cloud market grew by 29%.

Of the monies spent on cloud infrastructure, a recent survey of cloud market spending found AWS remained the cloud market leader with 34% market share. Equally notable, AWS grew its market share 1% quarter over quarter even as its competitors declined or stayed the same.

Enterprises select AWS over its competitors for many reasons. It offers a range of compute instances and storage types available at multiple capacity, performance, and price points. It provides complementary cloud services such as analytics, AI, containers, IoT, and Kubernetes. It currently has 84 Availability Zones with data centers in 26 geographic regions with announced plans to add more.

Taken together, these benefits make a compelling argument for enterprises to adopt and embrace AWS. Yet as enterprises host more applications, data, and workloads in AWS, they must also take steps to protect them. Here is where AWS cloud backup solutions come into play.

Large Enterprise AWS Cloud Backup Solutions
In preparing this report, DCIG identified over 30 solutions in the marketplace that offer backup capabilities for AWS. Of these, it identified and classified 15 of them as meeting its definition of a large enterprise AWS cloud backup solution. These 15 solutions target large enterprise environments in their admin, user, and online documentation and strive to meet their needs.

The analyst firm evaluated these AWS cloud backup solutions based on multiple different features and capabilities.

The general categories under which these features fell included:
• Backup administration
• Backup capabilities
• Configuration, licensing, and pricing
• Recovery and restores
• Support

Based on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following enterprise backup solutions a top 5 ranking:
• Cobalt Iron Compass
• Cohesity DataProtect BaaS
• Commvault Complete Data Protection/Metallic DMaaS
• IBM Spectrum Protect Family
• HYCU Protege for AWS

Shared Characteristics
In reviewing these solutions, DCIG noted the top 5 solutions shared the following characteristics:
• Backup and restore individual VMs at the file, folder, volume, and VM image levels
• Encrypt data at-rest and in-flight
• Free trial period
• Generate alerts on backup data growth and storage thresholds
• Include one or more standard backup policies.
• Index protected data
• Integration with single sign-on solutions
• Perform cloud-to-cloud (C2C), instant, and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) recoveries
• Perform full and incremental backups
• Protect all OSs offered by AWS on its EC2 instances.
• Protect Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint hosted in the AWS cloud
• Protect VMware applications running in VMware cloud on AWS
• Support storing backup data on S3 Standard targets in the same or different AWS Regions
• Vault backups.

“We fundamentally believe there is a better way to manage, protect and recover data across the enterprise, regardless of size and cloud in use, be it private, public or hybrid,” said Subbiah Sundaram, SVP products, HYCU, Inc. “What sets HYCU apart is we were designed from the beginning to be multi-cloud. This recognition is further testament that the time, energy and effort we spend in both engineering and with customers, that need a cloud-native solution for AWS is working. Thank you DCIG for this latest award and thank you for all that the team does to help companies understand what solutions exist and are top-of-mind when enterprise need an AWS cloud-native data protection solution.”