We performed a comparison between AWS Snowball and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Zerto, Nasuni and others in Cloud Migration."It's a nice way of shipping a lot of data without using a network."
"The most valuable features of AWS Snowball for me are its security measures and its flexibility."
"The way the data is moved is very clever. Also, the interface is very simple and user-friendly."
"You are able to scale the solution vertically. It's very scalable."
"The ability to test which virtual machines can be failed over to our DR site without interruption of our production environment."
"In our DR testing, Zerto allows us to go work on other things while it takes care of everything. That's valuable because we know that we can still hit all of our SLAs in a real disaster."
"In situations of failback or moving workloads, it saves us hours. If I were to have to move a four or five terabyte machine using something like VMware's virtual copy it has to install on the machine and copy the data over. Then it has to shut the machine down and do a final copy, which means there's a lot of downtime while it's doing the final copy."
"It is way faster than just manually moving VMDKs, etc. It saves hours of time and a significant amount of money."
"Implementing this solution has given us sandboxing and the ability to move VMs."
"From a management perspective, one of the biggest benefits is to see the excitement of your engineers having a tool that truly enables them, really making their lives easier. That is something that I love. When we came out of the PoC, their eyes were just wide with excitement of what was possible now."
"I would give it an eight out of 10, if not a nine out of 10, when it comes to ease of use."
"I've been fortunate enough not to need to rely on Zerto in an actual disaster, but we do testing every year. Sometimes, it's multiple times annually or at the year's end. It takes the recovery workflow, which would normally take a lot of planning, and reduces that to just a few minutes."
"It's not an easy product to start using for a beginner, but If you're a professional, it's easy to understand."
"The stability of the solution isn't ideal and should be improved."
"I think AWS Snowball could improve by expanding its availability to more countries."
"It would be helpful if Snowball provided more kinds of connectivity. That will make it easier to add and move data."
"Zerto needs to improve its documentation."
"The alerting could be fine tuned and improved. It does a lot of alerts, but it's a little bit cumbersome to modify them."
"Some of the features need improvement. One would be, as you're creating a Move group or a VPG, as they call it, it should either autosave or have the ability so that you can save it for coming back to later because if the setup times out, you lose all your work. That would be a nice improvement to have."
"When we do failover and failback, it doesn't maintain some of the settings that it should and I don't really understand why that happens."
"They just came out with improvements for ransomware protection last week. I haven't used them yet but, overall, security and preventing ransomware is really a hot topic these days. I would like to see it detect when the ransomware occurs and provide more information on it."
"From the technical side, there can be a little bit more PowerShell integration. I know it leverages APIs, but people still use PowerShell. Some people would rather use PowerShell if that is an option."
"Some of the integrations with our internal tools, in particular, company-specific ones, do not work. In cases like this, we have to ask for additional support."
"An integrated encryption would allow for faster initial install and connection to the remote cloud site."
AWS Snowball is ranked 12th in Cloud Migration with 5 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Cloud Migration with 235 reviews. AWS Snowball is rated 9.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AWS Snowball writes "Excellent for handling large-scale data transfers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". AWS Snowball is most compared with Microsoft Azure Data Box, Google Transfer Appliance, IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration, Palantir Foundry and AWS Snowball Edge, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines.
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