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AWS Backup vs Veritas CloudPoint comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

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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
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Backup (4th)
Veritas CloudPoint
Ranking in Cloud Backup
27th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AWS Backup is 1.8%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas CloudPoint is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Backup1.8%
Veritas CloudPoint0.7%
Other97.5%
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Featured Reviews

Chukwudi Uzoma - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of IT, Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Automated backups have strengthened governance and compliance while simplifying recovery
AWS Backup offers several valuable features. I think the fact that it is an AWS organization-wide service is significant. It is a centralized management system that allows me to manage AWS Backup policies, retention periods, and monitoring from a single place instead of configuring these backups for each AWS service. This helps with governance and control. Another feature I appreciate is the integration with AWS Organization, which allows backup policies to be applied consistently across multiple accounts, which is very important for large organization environments where governance and compliance are critical. I also appreciate the automated backup plans that reduce operational overhead and ensure resources are protected without relying on manual intervention. Additionally, cross-account and cross-region backup support improves resilience against accidental deletion, ransomware, or regional outages. The compliance and reporting features help provide visibility into backup status, recovery points, and policy adherence, making audits much easier.
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Operations Director, Information Technology at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Seamless integration supports small teams with existing skills
The most valuable feature we've found with Veritas CloudPoint so far is the lack of a learning curve because the team was already familiar with all of the consoles and how to build policies. As they started to use it in Azure, they were able to continue doing things as they were used to doing them rather than having to learn a new tool. The efficiency gain we've experienced is that we were able to start deploying backup policies to Azure without having to learn a new tool, even though there are arguments about overhead and granularity if one uses native Azure backup tools compared to Veritas CloudPoint.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It provides an easy data migration process from on-premise to cloud."
"AWS is the primary platform that we use for our internal needs and we are trying to best use whatever comes with it."
"What I like about AWS Backup is its simple approach to a complex problem."
"The advantage that AWS Backup has over competitors is that it's very simple."
"Overall, AWS Backup provides value in terms of time and money through its periodic backup capabilities."
"It is quite easy to manage AWS Backup's centralized console for multiple environments."
"AWS Backup has helped our organization by overall increasing our disaster recovery capabilities and allowing us to support different disaster recovery scenarios."
"AWS Backup is secure and comes with a vault that ensures data is never deleted, offering great security."
"The initial setup is very easy and quite straightforward."
"I would rate Veritas CloudPoint a ten because it's done everything it says it'll do, and we've really not had many problems with it."
"The product is good for volume-level backups."
"The most valuable features are the indexing, the file-level restore, and the replications between regions."
 

Cons

"The restore functionality is an area that needs to be improved because right now, it is not very good."
"Only the price could be improved."
"The support people face some challenges in coming on for remote sessions. They always prefer giving some logs."
"The tool is a good fit if your environment is VM-specific. However, it might not be the most suitable option if you have physical servers or an on-premise setup."
"The service disconnects a lot."
"There are some limitations to partial backup in AWS Backup."
"They should work on their visual capabilities."
"The notifications on the backup and on the mobile app could be more useful."
"I don't care for the pricing or capacity license model from Veritas CloudPoint because there are cases where we back up the same data multiple times, yet we still owe from a capacity standpoint based on how much data is managed in our backups."
"They are niche with the work that they do, but they should have more integration with NetBackup and the reporting is something they should be working towards improving."
"The product needs to improve its file-level or granular-level backups."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"The clients pay for the whole AWS bundle. It is an affordable solution."
"AWS Backup is free of cost, but we need to pay for the backup storage being used."
"Our customers pay a monthly AWS fee that includes the AWS Backup service."
"The product is inexpensive."
"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."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"When comparing to other solutions, the price is at par."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise17
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Backup?
Pricing for AWS Backup is based on storage and backup frequency. Although it is reasonable, it requires monitoring, especially with long retention periods.
What needs improvement with AWS Backup?
AWS Backup is a great service, but I think there could be improvements on the reporting and dashboard side. More visibility into backup-related costs would be beneficial because I am very FinOps-mi...
What is your primary use case for AWS Backup?
I utilize AWS Backup to automate and centralize backup operations across AWS services in my AWS organization. It helps me ensure compliance with retention requirements, reduce operational overheads...
What needs improvement with Veritas CloudPoint?
I don't care for the pricing or capacity license model from Veritas CloudPoint because there are cases where we back up the same data multiple times, yet we still owe from a capacity standpoint bas...
What is your primary use case for Veritas CloudPoint?
Our use case for Veritas CloudPoint is that it was implemented so our on-premises staff could continue to have the same look and feel as they started to back up virtual machines that were being bui...
What advice do you have for others considering Veritas CloudPoint?
We work in a cloud environment in the health insurance industry as a medium-sized business. We're pretty happy with Veritas CloudPoint in terms of how we've used it on-premises over the years. Alth...
 

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