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Azure Backup vs N2W comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 3, 2025

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
4.1
Azure Backup offers cost-effective savings with security, low upfront costs, and minimal storage fees, despite some dissatisfaction.
Sentiment score
5.5
<p>N2WS Backup &amp; Recovery users saved time and money, improved efficiency, reduced downtime, and achieved better data protection and ROI.</p>
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Azure Backup’s support receives mixed feedback, with satisfactory service but issues like slow responses and varying expertise.
Sentiment score
6.2
N2W's customer service is efficient, responsive, and proactive, ensuring high customer satisfaction and strong sales performance.
The technical support from Microsoft is good
 

Scalability Issues

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.
Sentiment score
6.8
N2W demonstrates strong scalability, efficiently improving backup times across diverse infrastructures and adapting to increasing workloads.
Azure Backup is scalable since it is a global solution.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.2
Azure Backup is praised for its high stability, consistent performance, and reliability, with success rates around 95%.
Sentiment score
7.6
Users consistently praise N2W's stability, noting reliable performance, efficient recovery, and high ratings, making it exceptionally dependable.
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

Azure Backup struggles with interface complexity, high costs, limited database support, slow restores, and inadequate multi-cloud flexibility.
N2W's interface is outdated and complex, needing improved integration, file management, and stability for seamless backup solutions.
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

Azure Backup is viewed as moderately priced, offering value with a pay-as-you-go model but can be costly.
N2W offers flexible AWS Marketplace pricing, appealing to all organizational sizes with intuitive purchasing and low-cost features.
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

Azure Backup provides secure, cost-effective cloud integration with easy configuration, robust scalability, and efficient recovery, enhancing disaster recovery capabilities.
N2W provides efficient data backup and recovery with a user-friendly interface, benefiting AWS workload management and user experience.
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

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
N2W
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
41st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (33rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (24th), AWS Marketplace (36th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Azure Backup is 3.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N2W is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

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…
Hitesh Jethwa - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly, easy to deploy, and stable
I give the solution a nine out of ten. We require one engineer for maintenance. I would highly recommend N2WS Backup & Recovery, as I have had no issues and the sales and technical support teams have been excellent. They keep in touch with us every three to six months via email and phone calls.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
18%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What do you like most about N2WS Backup & Recovery?
N2WS Backup &amp; Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances.
What needs improvement with N2WS Backup & Recovery?
N2WS Backup &amp; Recovery efficiently takes cloud backups on EC2 instances. The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient.
What is your primary use case for N2WS Backup & Recovery?
We use N2WS Backup &amp; Recovery for backing up EC2 instances.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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N2WS Backup & Recovery, N2WS Cloud Protection Manager, N2W Backup & Recovery for AWS Free Trial/BYOL
 

Interactive Demo

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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Somerset County Council, Kardem, PCL Construction
Deloitte, NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Dyson, Deuthsche Bahn, Skechers, Allan Gray, Hewlett Packard, St. John's University, City of Oakland
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