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AWS Backup vs Veritas Alta Data Protection comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

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
7.1
AWS Backup enhances data protection, streamlines management, and provides cost savings, ensuring compliance readiness and operational efficiency.
Sentiment score
6.3
Veritas Alta Data Protection offers ROI through time and cost savings, vendor consolidation, and enhanced security against ransomware.
It is not primarily about cost optimization, but more about protecting our organization against ransomware attacks to avoid being brought to its knees.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
We can see approximately 10% in savings, which could be in terms of time saving or money saving.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
AWS Backup offers efficient support with quick responses, though complex issues and repeated log requests may require additional assistance.
Sentiment score
3.8
Customer service is good but needs improvements in regional support and availability across time zones for urgent issues.
The customer service is top-notch, rated ten out of ten.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
In the first interaction, I have already provided the logs, and they are asking again and again for the same logs.
Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA
The IVR system should be reduced so that customers can reach support directly, as when someone calls, it is typically for a critical technical issue and the call should connect directly to a representative.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
This is a challenge for me, especially since I work in APAC, and whenever we engage with Veritas technical support, I must wait for someone in the United States to be available to help with our issue.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
AWS Backup is highly scalable and well-rated, but lacks support for non-VMware platforms and some specific features.
Sentiment score
7.7
Users praise Alta Data's excellent scalability and cost-effective nature, reporting high satisfaction and capacity for growth without performance constraints.
Veritas Alta Data Protection is not expensive, which makes it scalable.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
AWS Backup offers stable performance and reliability, achieving high user ratings and 99.99% uptime, with minor integration concerns.
Sentiment score
8.6
Veritas Alta Data Protection is highly stable, consistently rated nine out of ten, even with geographic clustering functionality.
AWS Backup is very stable, rating nine out of ten.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Backup needs improvements in visibility, reporting, restore speed, hybrid capabilities, encryption, cost, scheduling, ease of use, and service support.
Veritas Alta Data Protection requires user-friendly upgrades, simpler interface, AI file restoration, and better documentation and reporting tools.
When refreshing, if we want to do daily backups, it becomes quite costly.
Lead Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Currently, it only includes around ten services, while AWS offers over three hundred plus services.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
The solution could benefit from some artificial intelligence features where we can restore files or get assistance from the AI side.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
Veritas Alta Data Protection can be deployed on multiple cloud providers, including Azure and GCP.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
I want a very simple GUI which even an L1 engineer or L1 cloud engineer can understand and use with minimum supervision.
Enterprise solution architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

AWS Backup offers flexible, usage-based pricing, without a license fee, appealing to businesses with its cost-effectiveness and scalability.
Veritas Alta Data Protection is cost-effective due to discounts, offering competitive features despite being typically 20% more expensive.
AWS Backup has a moderate cost, rated at two or three out of ten regarding pricing.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
Since we have been using Veritas Alta Data Protection for the last four years, the price is very friendly.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
Regarding the pricing aspect, we received a pretty good discount when we started onboarding all of our backups to Veritas Alta Data Protection.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
 

Valuable Features

AWS Backup is a secure, scalable service offering centralized management, automation, and integration, simplifying data management and error reduction.
Veritas Alta Data Protection offers robust ransomware defense, seamless cloud integration, automation, cost efficiency, and multi-cloud protection capabilities.
If we encounter any service-related issues, such as when someone accidentally deletes a table in production or testing, we can immediately restore the data from backup.
Lead Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The ability to maintain all backups via one service simplifies compliance with regulations such as NIST, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
It is quite easy to manage AWS Backup's centralized console for multiple environments.
Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA
We tested the effectiveness of Veritas Alta Data Protection's granular restoration feature during POC because we had a requirement to test various scenarios like restoring the bucket in a particular region, restoring the bucket in a different region, restoring EC2 instances, restoring containers, and databases.
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
The unique selling proposition includes automated policy-driven operations.
Assistant General Manager System at Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.
The best feature Veritas Alta Data Protection offers is integration with existing hyperscalers or virtual platforms as well as integration with current computing platforms, where we can see this working well with our existing scenarios.
Enterprise solution architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Backup
Ranking in Cloud Backup
12th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Backup (5th)
Veritas Alta Data Protection
Ranking in Cloud Backup
29th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AWS Backup is 2.4%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Alta Data Protection is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Backup2.4%
Veritas Alta Data Protection0.8%
Other96.8%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

RiteshPurbey - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA
Manages virtual machine backups smoothly and simplifies restoration across environments
It is quite easy to manage AWS Backup's centralized console for multiple environments. The product's interface is intuitive. AWS Backup has a much higher price if you compare it with the snapshots. I have to pay for the whole environment by AWS. We have a backup solution with only virtual machines. The rest of it, we have a restore point.
RahulSharma8 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Platform Engineer at Expedia Group
Cloud backups have secured critical data and have enabled fast recovery from ransomware threats
I do utilize the automated policy-driven operations with Veritas Alta Data Protection. They have helped in reducing manual workloads because manual intervention is required to handle errors or backup job failures when trying to back up a particular AWS account where critical resources are deployed. Discovery takes a lot of time because we are backing up data already in the S3 buckets. We often face challenges with resource discovery because discovery does not happen once a month; it happens daily. Every day, the discovery job runs before backing up resources. We may encounter issues in discovery or related to permissions, meaning if we have backup permissions on a bucket but further intensive permissions are present on any particular file, the Veritas Alta Data Protection job will skip that file. At times, backup fails with one or another error, and manual intervention is definitely needed. It is predominantly automated and policy-driven, but manual intervention is also required sometimes. We tested the effectiveness of Veritas Alta Data Protection's granular restoration feature during POC because we had a requirement to test various scenarios like restoring the bucket in a particular region, restoring the bucket in a different region, restoring EC2 instances, restoring containers, and databases. One more crucial feature for us in selecting Veritas Alta Data Protection is having replication between Veritas Alta Data Protection clusters. Once the primary backup job is complete, Veritas Alta Data Protection runs an SLP job, which is a storage lifecycle policy. This SLP job moves or replicates the data from one Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster to another. If the Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster goes down, the data is still replicated to the other Veritas Alta Data Protection cluster.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
6%
Construction Company
19%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Backup?
Pricing for AWS Backup is based on storage and backup frequency. Although it is reasonable, it requires monitoring, especially with long retention periods.
What needs improvement with AWS Backup?
AWS Backup could be improved by adding better visibility and reporting features. A more detailed dashboard is required for this service. Another improvement would be faster restore times for large ...
What is your primary use case for AWS Backup?
AWS Backup is used to centrally manage backups for services like EBS volumes, RDS databases, and sometimes EFS, primarily for data protection and compliance purposes. In one specific project, multi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
The setup cost is quite good and affordable. Since we have been using Veritas Alta Data Protection for the last four years, the price is very friendly. In terms of technical features, it is pretty ...
What needs improvement with Veritas Alta Data Protection?
The solution could benefit from some artificial intelligence features where we can restore files or get assistance from the AI side, as the world is moving toward AI. Specifically, AI capabilities ...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Alta Data Protection?
In the last two years, we faced issues with ransomware. Because of the encryption level which we set with this backup software, we were able to restore all of our data without losing a single file.
 

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