AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.3, while NetApp is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.4% mindshare in CB, compared to NetApp’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are key players in disaster recovery and cloud storage management, with users favoring AWS for its pricing and support and NetApp for its advanced features.

Features: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is noted for instant block replication, a pay-as-you-go pricing model, and live block verification. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP excels in data management, file-sharing capabilities, and high availability, with features like Snapshots and SnapMirror.

Room for Improvement: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery could enhance automation, logging, and replicated data management support. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP requires simpler navigation, better RAID-level protection, and improved cloud integration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is versatile, enabling quick deployment on various cloud types, with generally high customer support. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides strong cloud integration but has a complex feature set that can complicate deployment; customer service is highly rated with room for improved ticketing.

Pricing and ROI: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, seen as expensive, offers a high ROI with flexible pricing models supporting scalability and cost savings. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, while costlier, is praised for its advanced features and enterprise pricing strategies, though users seek more flexible licensing.

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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 Elastic Disaster Recovery

Ranking in Cloud Backup

18th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (29th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (15th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Backup

14th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (2nd), Public Cloud Storage Services (7th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 1.4%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Vijay Londhe

Assistant Programmer at Mahadis

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.

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Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It offers seamless integration with services like ACL, EKS, and Fargate for deploying containerized applications."

"It's on the cheaper side and not too expensive for users."

"We have never had any issues with scalability."

"AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is a robust and reliable solution for disaster recovery needs."

"Technical support has been very good. They usually respond quickly to our requests."

"The solution is dependent on the network bandwidth. For example, if they have a bandwidth of 10Mbps the solution will run a little heavier. If the bandwidth is good the solution runs well."

"Customer service is quite helpful."

"We went from an organization with minimal to no disaster recovery. I was able to spin up the disaster recovery environment with AWS rather quickly and meet business requirements."

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"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."

"They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."

"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."

"There is unified storage, which provides flexibility. It is set up perfectly for performance and provisioning. We are able to monitor everything using a separate application. It provides error and critical warnings that allow us to take immediate action through ONTAP. We are able to manage everything, log a case, and follow up with the support team, who can fix it. That is how it is unified."

"The ability to do a straight SnapMirror from our on-prem to the cloud with no other data transitions is excellent."

"One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID."

"This solution has made everything easier to do."

"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."

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Cons

"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."

"The solution's network setup and a lot of the control tower setup could be improved."

"I have not seen any areas that need improvement at this time."

"Definitely there should be better logging. From a customer perspective I would like to see more logs on what is happening. If there is an issue, I would like to know what the problem is. Right now, we have to depend on the support of the vendor to check and let us know, because we don't have access to a lot of logging information."

"The UI could be a little sleeker."

"The bandwidth is a constant upload communication to the AWS DR environment, so if you do not have the proper bandwidth, it will definitely eat up your internet line."

"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 push or pull."

"The only thing I would like to see is, they don't have a formal ticketing system. There is no way I can go back and see what questions we had six months back, what issues we had, and how they were resolved."

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"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."

"Multipathing for iSCSI LUNs is difficult to deal with from the client-side and I'd love to see a single entry point that can be moved around within the cluster to simplify the client configuration."

"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."

"The cost needs improvement."

"Scale-up and scale-out could be improved. It would be interesting to have multiple HA pairs on one cluster, for example, or to increase the single instances more, from a performance perspective. It would be good to get more performance out of a single HA pair."

"I would like to have more management tools. They are difficult to work with, so I would like them to be a bit more user-friendly."

"The key feature, that we'd like to see in that is the ability to sync between regions within the AWS and Azure regions. We could use the cloud sync service, but we'd really like that native functionality within the cloud volume service."

"We've just been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Where the price adds up, there are CloudEndure licenses, then there is the AWS environment, and finally, there is the AWS storage, so cumulatively, it adds up."

"We were happy with the pricing that they gave us."

"They license us on a per machine basis. We have a set number of machines, which we have licensed."

"I rate the price of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery a six out of ten."

"The pricing is better now that they had come out with the Tier 2 which replicates a little less often. In comparison to what I would have been spending with any other type of solution, the pricing is fair."

"It has saved us money from having to buy hardware for disaster recovery."

"CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is charging clients $20 to do the DR backups. It is an expensive solution."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

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"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

"If we wanted to use the AWS solution, we would have to manage two or three different platforms and pay more money than what we should have to pay, as some of the features don't even exist. If we wanted to, we could use AWS cloning, but it is useless because it uses more space, is more expensive, and takes more time."

"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

"Our licensing is based on a yearly subscription. That is an additional cost, but because of the storage efficiencies that the NetApp gives, even with the additional cost of the NetApp license, you still end up saving money versus straight Azure native for storage. It's definitely worth it."

"The standard pricing is online. Pricing depends. If you're using the PayGo model, then it's just the normal costs on the Microsoft page. If you're using Bring Your Own License, which is what we're doing, then you get with your sales contact at NetApp and start figuring out what price is the best, in the end, for your company."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

25%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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.

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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...

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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...

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Also Known As

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery enables real-time replication and rapid recovery to enhance organizational resilience. Key features include block-level data replication, ease of use, cost-effectiveness, and automated recovery orchestration. Users benefit from increased efficiency, improved workflows, and enhanced data management, significantly improving organizational performance and business continuity.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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Sample Customers

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