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AWS Backup vs Commvault Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Backup
Ranking in Cloud Backup
11th
Ranking in SaaS Backup
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Backup
2nd
Ranking in SaaS Backup
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (3rd), eDiscovery (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), File Archiving (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st), AI IT Support (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AWS Backup is 2.6%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 6.7%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Commvault Cloud6.7%
AWS Backup2.6%
Other90.7%
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Featured Reviews

AnkitaDwivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Solution Architect at Barclays Capital
Streamlined with good backup processes and secure automation capabilities
AWS Backup is secure and comes with a vault that ensures data is never deleted, offering great security. The pay-as-you-go model is beneficial for scalability, as cost scales with the amount of data backed up. Additionally, it offers automation capabilities, allowing backups to be configured based on custom plans and frequency. It also has built-in monitoring to notify of failures, achieving operational excellence and ease of use.
Ankit Gagneja - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy
Hybrid backup strategy has improved recovery orchestration and now supports flexible DR planning
I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically revolves around tiering of not frequently accessible data to glacier kind of storage, plus bringing in a high level of compression and deduplication capabilities. All those features I believe are there in other customers and they are bringing in new use cases from the AI perspective which I have not recently seen in Commvault. I have seen that Dell does have such features. We recently pitched a solution to the customers where we talked about data tiering and the other AI use cases, identifying the data by itself and autonomously taking decisions on how to tier the data between the different storage classes that we have. Those kind of capabilities that we have proposed to the customer as far as the partner solutions are concerned. I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud. The rest of the features pretty much align with the other enterprise solutions that we have in the market. It is just the AI capability that is being asked by the customers as well as that I see missing with Commvault.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"AWS Backup's most valuable feature is that you can configure it remotely to create backups."
"The customer service is top-notch, rated ten out of ten."
"The advantage that AWS Backup has over competitors is that it's very simple."
"The most valuable features we have found are the flexibility in the services offered."
"It is quite easy to manage AWS Backup's centralized console for multiple environments."
"AWS Backup is most beneficial because we can manage the service, centralize, and automate the data without missing any essential information."
"It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature is the daily incremental site backup."
"Its compression and deduplication allow us to store more backups and save storage space. The reporting is great; we are able to obtain critical business reports and infrastructure/usage information very easily."
"The product alerts the security team about threats."
"It's very easy to set up the storage across all platforms. This allows us to be dynamic and change on-the-fly."
"The cloud integration is a massive win for us, giving us a single backup service for all of our on-premise and cloud systems."
"When an interruption takes place due to an incident, the signaling and notification are very extensive."
"I like Commvault's immutable backups. It integrates with other solutions in our IT infrastructure very well."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication ratio. It saves most of our space and reduces the network traffic."
"Security measures, including encryption and threat detection, contribute significantly to data protection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats."
 

Cons

"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"AWS Backup could benefit from including more services. Currently, it only includes around ten services, while AWS offers over three hundred plus services."
"Its cost could be better than a few of its competitors."
"The notifications on the backup and on the mobile app could be more useful. If they could arrange notes or notifications properly and offer services for managing it in our region, it would be helpful for us."
"AWS Backup could improve because you cannot use Glacier or anything but EFS."
"The support people face some challenges in coming on for remote sessions. They always prefer giving some logs."
"They should work on their visual capabilities."
"This backup tool does the full backup of the entire snapshot server. I would like to have the option to not do the full server backup."
"There is room for improvement in the data center application running on the cloud for the platform."
"For simpler environments, they have some templates for startups. Possibly for a smaller environment, they need to do more automatic configuration and selections of users who want to do backups. This is mainly for smaller environments. I would like them to have the same system fit for all environments: small and big environments. Currently, we have to do a lot of configuration of the layout, which takes time. This solution is appropriate for enterprise-level enterprise, but I would like it to be easier to use for SMB environments."
"Commvault is a rich system that might scare somebody the first time they see it because it feels so huge."
"The customer support is not good."
"Data center backup must be improved."
"I would like Commvault to have a feature for cybersecurity threats, e.g. securing the target backup repository. Commvault just started testing and releasing this feature, but it needs to be stabilized."
"Commvault's price is quite high."
"Setup is complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is inexpensive."
"There are no licensing costs for AWS Backup. You pay only for the amount of backup storage you use and then the data transferred between regions. Overall AWS Backup is priced reasonably."
"There is a lot of flexibility with the services and pricing. The price is reasonable when compared to other products. This is very good for us."
"Price-wise, I rate the solution a six out of ten. One only has to pay for the storage cost of AWS solutions, which is the standard cost provided by AWS."
"AWS is more expensive than some competitors like Azure."
"We don't use a lot of space, only approximately 900 GB, so the price is reasonable. For standing, it's okay. We normally do a payment to SSML, and they are the ones who pay over there. It is around $100 monthly."
"AWS Backup is free of cost, but we need to pay for the backup storage being used."
"It's a myth that Cloud is cheap. Cloud is cheap initially, but the cost over time can be equal to your own infrastructure if you consume a lot."
"The pricing is fairly in line with the other products we've compared it with recently. We do spend more on it than we did in our Backup Exec days, but it's fairly competitive with some of the other best-in-class data protection platforms."
"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."
"Compared with other backup technologies, Commvault is a bit more costly, but we are satisfied with the support, the services, and the features that we get with Commvault."
"Our yearly cost is around €20,000... The cost is based on the number of users and the amount of data. They sell it per terabyte."
"Commvault Backup & Recovery is perhaps the best value for our money that I have seen in a backup product."
"It is cheaper than Veeam."
"Its cost is reasonable, but anybody else can do better benchmarking."
"The solution is worth the money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
6%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise82
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Backup?
The solution's most valuable features are its backup capability and tight integration with other AWS services.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Backup?
AWS Backup operates on a pay-as-you-go model without requiring a license.
What needs improvement with AWS Backup?
I would need to get feedback from my colleague to see what additional features I would like to see in AWS Backup in the next release to make it closer to ten.
What do you like most about ThreatWise?
Security measures, including encryption and threat detection, contribute significantly to data protection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ThreatWise?
Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.
What needs improvement with ThreatWise?
I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically rev...
 

Also Known As

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Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise
 

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Sample Customers

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Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company
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