2022-23 Top 5 SME AWS Cloud Backup Solution Providers

DCIG, LLC announces the availability of the 2022-23 TOP 5 SME AWS Cloud Backup Solution report.

It evaluates the features of 12 solutions across 5 different categories that provide backup for AWS. It provides guidance on the top 5 solutions that SME should consider for protecting applications, data, and workloads hosted in AWS.

AWS Maintains Cloud Leadership Position
Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure continues to experience double digit growth. Between 2021 and 2022, spending in the overall cloud market grew by 29%.

Of the monies spent on cloud infrastructure, a recent survey of cloud market spending found AWS remained the cloud market leader with 34% market share. Equally notable, AWS grew its market share 1% quarter over quarter even as its competitors declined or stayed the same.

Enterprises select AWS over its competitors for many reasons. It offers a range of compute instances and storage types available at multiple capacity, performance, and price points. It provides complementary cloud services such as analytics, AI, containers, IoT, and Kubernetes, plus more. It currently has 84 Availability Zones with data centers in 26 geographic regions with announced plans to add more.

Taken together, these benefits make a compelling argument for enterprises to adopt and embrace AWS. Yet as enterprises host more applications, data, and workloads in AWS, they must also take steps to protect them. Here is where AWS cloud backup solutions come into play.

SME AWS Cloud Backup Solutions
The report identified over 30 solutions in the marketplace that offer backup capabilities for AWS. Of these, it identified and classified 12 of them as meeting DCIG’s definition of an AWS SME cloud backup solution. These 12 solutions meet the specific backup and recovery needs of SMEs.

DCIG evaluated these AWS cloud backup solutions based on multiple different features and capabilities.

The general categories under which these features fell included:
• Backup administration
• Backup capabilities
• Configuration, licensing, and pricing
• Recovery and restores
• Support

Based on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following enterprise backup solutions a top 5 ranking (listed in alphabetical order):
• Arpio DR and Readiness
• Amazon AWS Backup
• Clumio Protect
• HYCU Protege for AWS
• Metallic, a Commvault Venture

Shared Characteristics
In reviewing these solutions, DCIG noted the top 5 solutions shared the following characteristics:
• Operate in the North America and Europe AWS regions
• Integrate with and protect the following AWS EC2 guest OSs: Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE Linux, and all current Windows releases (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022)
• Encrypt data at-rest and in-flight
• May be configured to perform snapshots at least once a day
• Can perform granular restores of VM images
• Can create snapshots on Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Offer protection for SQL Server
• Perform cloud-to-cloud (C2C) recoveries
• Provide technical support in one hour or less
• Offer AWS CloudFormation templates to aid in the deployment and/or use of their solution

“AWS cloud backup solutions have changed since the last DCIG TOP 5 report that evaluated these solutions,” said Jerome Wendt, DCIG’s president, founder, and author of the report. “The most notable change since then was the emergence of feature-rich, enterprise-ready BaaS solutions. BaaS solutions were not enterprise options even a couple of years ago. The top 5 solutions listed in this report represent the rapid maturity of BaaS and its viability for use in performing enterprise backups in AWS.”

“We fundamentally believe there is a better way to manage, protect and recover data across the enterprise, regardless of size and cloud in use, be it private, public or hybrid,” said Subbiah Sundaram, SVP products, HYCU, Inc. “What sets HYCU apart is we were designed from the beginning to be multi-cloud. This recognition is further testament that the time, energy and effort we spend in both engineering and with customers, that need a cloud-native solution for AWS is working. Thank you DCIG for this latest award and thank you for all that the team does to help companies understand what solutions exist and are top-of-mind when enterprise need an AWS cloud-native data protection solution.“