AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Reviews

If there is a data leak, incident, or compliance issue, auditors may want to verify whether there is a policy and plan in place for utilizing AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. 

As part of a strategic approach, I have been part of a team ensuring compliance with various regulations, including HIPAA compliance. I have contributed to developing strategies to satisfy audits and inspections from various government bodies. These strategies outline the plans and features to be utilized if needed.

AWS, as a cloud platform, helps build trust in its services. There have been incidents where clients using Amazon services faced security breaches, but these stories seem more frequent with Microsoft. This might be a personal bias, and others may have different experiences. AWS proactively protects its reputation by addressing issues and investing heavily in its tools, app tech, and engineers.

Pricing could be improved.

The solution is stable because we haven't had any incidents.

It's scalable because of the value and investment it has made in terms of capacity.

Every business survives because of its reputation. In case of any disaster, AWS cannot guarantee 100% security, but it helps protect the company's reputation. It also assists in providing remedies to solve any particular problems that may arise. AWS is a platform that supports businesses.

It has pay-as-you-go pricing. The cost will be different if you are not utilizing it as often as possible because there are costs beforehand and after an incident.

If you are using AWS for your disaster recovery, it's important to use AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to ensure continuity in case of any failures. Having a strategic approach means considering the cost of disaster recovery as part of your overall planning. 

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We were using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery as a backup for websites when we had a double ISP outage.

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution.

The solution never reduced our system's downtime. It would take us about a day to get the network configured properly for even doing a network failover test. The solution's orchestration capabilities did not simplify our disaster recovery process.

The solution's network setup and a lot of the control tower setup could be improved. The solution should provide more ease of use for the creation of cloud appliances for firewalls.

I have been using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for three years.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for stability.

I rate the solution a five or six out of ten for scalability.

The solution's initial setup was fairly complex, and the company that did the initial setup for us messed up a couple of times.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a one or two out of ten.

The solution was deployed by three people from my team and two engineers from the company.

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.

The solution's replication was fine. We faced issues when we actually tried to utilize it. Every time we made a big change to any of the on-premise servers that were being replicated, we'd always have to change our replication engines, sizing, and the disc it's written on. Otherwise, it would end up taking around 30 days for a small monthly Windows update to replicate.

I would not recommend CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to other users because of all the issues we had with the wrong sizing and the fact that there are better solutions in the market.

Overall, I rate the solution a two out of ten.

My purpose for utilizing CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is to streamline our disaster recovery procedure. In the event of any issue arising in our on-premise infrastructure, we aim to quickly switch over to AWS. Our setup is designed to facilitate this process, and we frequently conduct tests to ensure its reliability. While we have yet to experience an actual disaster, we conduct multiple tests annually. Furthermore, as a partner, I implement this solution for our clients. Currently, we have five customers using it, with the number steadily increasing.

We have the solution deployed on-premise located on the Amazon AWS infrastructure.

Although we have not yet utilized it for an actual disaster, one of our clients has been affected by ransomware or similar attacks. It is crucial to be able to quickly restore their infrastructure outside of their primary infrastructure, and that is exactly what we are accomplishing with this solution. Since the client we are working with is not a large enterprise, they do not have the financial resources or budget to create a secondary site for disaster recovery. Our solution enables them to be prepared without having to allocate funds for a complete data center to perform the restoration.

The most valuable aspect of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is its instant block replication feature. This allows us to perform live block verification and eliminates the need to concern ourselves with recovery point objectives. This capability is particularly advantageous for critical workloads.

The failback could be improved. It should be more intuitive.

I have been using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for approximately one and a half years.

The stability could be improved. There is sometimes a lag in the replication and we have to reinstall the agent. It does not happen all the time but when it does in a particular server we need to reset it. A lot of our customers are relying on this solution and this is not a good scenario.

I rate the scalability of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery a ten out of ten.

I have worked with the support once and I had a good experience. 

I rate the support of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery a nine out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery was simple with the new interface.

Both the customer and I are responsible for implementing the solution.

We have seen a return on our investment. When compared to the cost of building a complete data center, the solution is much more affordable. However, it can still be expensive for small customers since the snapshots require significant storage space. While the solution itself may not seem costly on paper, keeping several days of snapshots can increase the price. This is due to AWS EDS storage costs since that is what we are using for the snapshots.

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

Before implementing CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, my advice to others is to thoroughly read the documentation. We made some mistakes during our initial implementation, which caused problems and incurred additional costs. We attempted to failover a few servers just to test the solution but later realized that we couldn't simply delete them and resync from on-premises. We had to perform a full rollback, which we were not prepared to do at the time. As a result, we were unable to stop the server running on AWS and had to delete it entirely, causing us to start the synchronization process from scratch. This was a significant issue, especially since the server was a large five-terabyte space server. By carefully reading the documentation, you can avoid making such mistakes.

I rate CloudEndure Disaster Recovery an eight out of ten.

I've used the solution for migrations. I worked for a company that went Chapter 13, and we had to migrate into the cloud.

I've used it for disaster recovery as well. 

It is easy to use. I haven't had any issues with the client and console. 

When we tested it, it worked fine. 

The solution is free to use. 

The setup is pretty straightforward.

It's stable.

The solution is scalable.

Technical support is helpful and responsive. 

When I tested a failover, it didn't work. I set up a test, deleted the source, and went to fail it back, and it didn't work. 

The solution doesn't need any new features.

AWS is no longer using the solution anymore. 

I've been using this solution for about two years, before AWS bought it.

I'd rate the stability nine out of ten. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

I'd rate the scalability nine out of ten.

We do not have plans to increase usage at this time. 

I'm not sure how many people are using it. 

Technical support was excellent. 

Positive

The initial setup was straightforward. It was not complex at all. 

I did witness an ROI while using it. 

The solution was free to use. It was just the price of the storage, and that was it. It gave us 2,000 licenses, which is enough for anybody.

We are using an older version from before AWS bought it. 

This is a good product. I'd rate it nine out of ten.

For the CloudEndure DR, I have been using this for Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle OBIEE. I've used it for the operating system and directory services as well.

The ability to clone is very helpful.

The installation process is very easy.

The solution's cost is reasonable. It's on the cheaper side and not too expensive for users. 

It is a scalable product. 

In terms of stability, it's reliable.

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

I've been working on the solution for the last two years.

The solution is stable. It's reliable. there are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

The product can scale quite well. it's not a problem. 

I haven't actually worked with technical support. I've managed to resolve any outstanding issues. 

It's very easy to set up this product. It's not overly difficult at all.

Once it is set up, it's not too hard to manage it. You only need one person to do so. You don't need a whole big team. 

We are able to install the solution ourselves. 

The cost is very reasonable. 

We are partners with Amazon.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for backing up our data and for recovery. My customers have some databases. They were looking for the DR solution.  CloudEndure is easy, and block-level replication will happen. Whenever my primary site goes down, the DR site will be up, and the data will be there. The DR data is there, and it will be a replication back will be my primary site. 

I have been using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for approximately five years.

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.

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

I rate CloudEndure Disaster Recovery an eight out of ten.

I am a solution architect and I analyze customer's information in order to suggest products for them. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is one of the solutions that I am familiar with.

It is used for backup and restore operations.

For regular backup and restore solutions, this product is fine.

I would like to see better support for creating and working with archives. Right now, it is difficult and painful to do. When you are working with multiple terabytes, there are no good solutions.

I have been using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for the past five or six years.

I have worked with many different vendors and the choice of solution depends on the customer's requirements.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

The entire company uses it for reports we are sent to research. We also have reports that we write for various clients and it helps us look for our research requirements. All of the data and information is stored on the cloud. There were a few instances in which the entire system got hacked. There was an issue with the system, the hard drive, so we used the cloud backup to retrieve all the information from three to four years down the line.

The three things that could improvement are:

• The user interface
• Customer support
• Recovery time for the current customer query

We have been using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery for the last two years. 

It is stable. 

It is scalable for large nodes. 

The initial setup is pretty straightforward, it's not complex.

I would recommend this product for cloud-based solutions. I can't recommend it for Azure. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten.