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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Azure Backup comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.5
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery offers cost-effective solutions with seamless integration, though snapshot storage costs may challenge smaller businesses.
Sentiment score
4.1
Azure Backup offers cost-effective savings with security, low upfront costs, and minimal storage fees, despite some dissatisfaction.
However, with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service being a native service, integration is seamless, highlighting the return on investment.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery support is praised for responsiveness, effectiveness, and enterprise-level assistance, though a formal ticket system is desired.
Sentiment score
7.2
Azure Backup’s support receives mixed feedback, with satisfactory service but issues like slow responses and varying expertise.
In case of any issue, they are ready to provide support within the defined SLA timeline.
The technical support from Microsoft is good
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is highly scalable, with efficient automation, easy upgrades, and strong user confidence in its scalability.
Sentiment score
7.2
Azure Backup offers scalable cloud-based storage, supporting various business sizes, with users reporting positive experiences and ratings between seven and ten.
Azure Backup is scalable since it is a global solution.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is reliable, though dependent on bandwidth, with occasional agent resets on Linux and cost concerns.
Sentiment score
6.2
Azure Backup is praised for its high stability, consistent performance, and reliability, with success rates around 95%.
It is very good and very reliable.
AWS is not difficult, but the cost associated with replicating data to another region can be significant.
I would rate the stability of Azure Backup as nine out of ten; it shows high stability in my experience.
Azure Backup is stable for Microsoft environments.
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery needs automation, integration, cost optimization, user enhancements, and improved documentation for better efficiency and user-friendliness.
Azure Backup struggles with interface complexity, high costs, limited database support, slow restores, and inadequate multi-cloud flexibility.
This would detail user activity directly in the ACL console for easier debugging and auditing.
In AWS Disaster Recovery Service, these details are not available, making it difficult to check my replication status.
It is not a perfect tool for restoring SQL databases since it requires replacing everything instead of restoring specific files.
The reporting functionality of Azure Backup needs improvement.
The area that I believe needs improvement in Azure Backup is the restoring time.
 

Setup Cost

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is seen as fair value with cost-saving options, though cumulative and alternative costs should be evaluated.
Azure Backup is viewed as moderately priced, offering value with a pay-as-you-go model but can be costly.
Azure Backup is expensive relative to the value we get from it.
The pricing of Azure Backup is fine; it is a low-cost solution.
 

Valuable Features

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery provides cost-effective, scalable data protection and seamless integration, enhancing reliability, flexibility, and ease of deployment.
Azure Backup provides secure, cost-effective cloud integration with easy configuration, robust scalability, and efficient recovery, enhancing disaster recovery capabilities.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service is a native service, integration is seamless.
The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its simplicity.
It has a good impact on our cost savings and operational efficiency as it is a low-cost solution.
We use the normal features for Azure Backup, specifically to make backups of the VMs.
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
25th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (18th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th)
Azure Backup
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
10th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Backup is 3.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Vijay Londhe - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed services with seamless integration and good reliability
Since I have to view everything on the console, the previous application solutions like IBM and Sanavi showed the RPO and RTO status directly. In AWS Disaster Recovery Service, these details are not available, making it difficult to check my replication status. I have to calculate whether my data is replicated to the Adarabad region or not. These features, if available in AWS, would be beneficial.
RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Achieve cost savings and efficiency with high-level restore capabilities
I use Azure Backup mainly for backing up virtual machines The feature I find most effective in Azure Backup is the high-level restore. Additionally, it has a good impact on our cost savings and operational efficiency as it is a low-cost solution. The area that I believe needs improvement in…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
The setup is actually managed by our partner. I have taken a rate of per user. Licensing is completely managed by the partner. I am paying per user and per GB storage cost, while the infrastructure...
What needs improvement with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
In its current state, ECL integrates with CloudWatch for basic logging and monitoring, yet improvements could include more detailed logs for specific actions, like when I perform actions such as pu...
How does Azure Backup differ from Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Vee...
What do you like most about Azure Backup?
Azure Backup is easy to configure and restore.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Backup?
The pricing of Azure Backup is fine; it is a low-cost solution.
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
Russell Reynolds Associates, Somerset County Council, Kardem, PCL Construction
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