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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Cohesity Data Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 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
6.5
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery offers cost-effective solutions with seamless integration, though snapshot storage costs may challenge smaller businesses.
Sentiment score
3.3
Cohesity Data Cloud users reported cost savings, time efficiency, enhanced security, scalability, and improved ROI through simplified data management and reduced downtime.
However, with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service being a native service, integration is seamless, highlighting the return on investment.
If I find myself stuck in a cyber recovery situation, this tool can help me avoid spending my money on ransom payments.
The level of confidence that Cohesity Data Cloud delivers to the clients is worth that cost.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery support is praised for responsiveness, effectiveness, and enterprise-level assistance, though a formal ticket system is desired.
Sentiment score
7.2
Cohesity Data Cloud's support is responsive but faces occasional delays and expertise gaps, with ratings around seven to eight.
In case of any issue, they are ready to provide support within the defined SLA timeline.
issues with Cohesity Data Cloud have not been encountered, suggesting a robust service.
They need to work faster to meet client requirements, especially when business is affected.
They probably upstaffed and made sure their knowledge was more up-to-date.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is highly scalable, with efficient automation, easy upgrades, and strong user confidence in its scalability.
Sentiment score
7.4
Cohesity Data Cloud is praised for exceptional scalability across hybrid environments, enhancing capacity and performance with managed scalability.
Scaling depends on subscription levels - when customers exceed their subscribed storage capacity, they can pay Cohesity to scale the resources.
There are no issues with scalability on the cloud end.
It's easy to add additional nodes to a current existing cluster, making it quite easy to expand.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is reliable, though dependent on bandwidth, with occasional agent resets on Linux and cost concerns.
Sentiment score
7.6
Cohesity Data Cloud offers reliable stability, with issues attributed to external factors, while support experiences vary in satisfaction.
It is very good and very reliable.
AWS is not difficult, but the cost associated with replicating data to another region can be significant.
Compared to other tools, it is very efficient and simple to learn.
I couldn't find anything negative about Cohesity Data Cloud specifically.
Cohesity Data Cloud is quite reliable.
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery needs automation, integration, cost optimization, user enhancements, and improved documentation for better efficiency and user-friendliness.
Cohesity Data Cloud faces challenges in installation, documentation, functionality, system support, costs, performance, and security, needing improvements overall.
This would detail user activity directly in the ACL console for easier debugging and auditing.
In AWS Disaster Recovery Service, these details are not available, making it difficult to check my replication status.
Issues such as ransomware protection and fixing vulnerabilities should be prioritized.
Cohesity Data Cloud scans backups by default for ransomware and malware, sending notifications if there are any security concerns or compromised systems.
The primary drawback is the need to transfer large amounts of data to the cloud via an internet connection, requiring significant bandwidth.
 

Setup Cost

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is seen as fair value with cost-saving options, though cumulative and alternative costs should be evaluated.
Cohesity Data Cloud's capacity-based pricing is deemed valuable for security and compliance, despite infrastructure setup costs.
Cohesity Data Cloud is more costly in the long term compared to physical tapes.
Comparatively, compared to IBM and Commvault, Cohesity Data Cloud offers the best deal for my environment.
All organizations are very interested in as-a-service model where they do not pay upfront cost, but they only get the services and pay for what they use as they use it.
 

Valuable Features

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery provides cost-effective, scalable data protection and seamless integration, enhancing reliability, flexibility, and ease of deployment.
Cohesity Data Cloud provides user-friendly, scalable data management with robust backup, seamless integration, and automated disaster recovery features.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service is a native service, integration is seamless.
It replicates data to the cloud in a tamper-proof manner, offering protection against ransomware attacks since it is not under administrative control.
They have a feature called DataSock, which enhances data protection.
The initial deployment of Cohesity Data Cloud, from my experience, is easy.
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
27th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
19th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (14th)
Cohesity Data Cloud
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
17th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
15th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Data Management Platforms (DMP) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cohesity Data Cloud is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Cohesity Data Cloud0.5%
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery0.6%
Other98.9%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Vijay Londhe - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Shiva Kinnera - PeerSpot reviewer
Support and connection issues affect user experience
I currently work at TCS in a different domain using AWS and Azure cloud backup. I switched from Cognizant to TCS four months ago, where I previously used Cohesity Data Cloud and Cohesity tools. I prefer Cohesity Data Cloud over AWS. While cloud functionality is similar across platforms, Cohesity Data Cloud's console, options, and web console are superior to AWS. The pricing of Cohesity Data Cloud depends on the data volume and retention period. Compared to alternatives, Cohesity Data Cloud is somewhat expensive. Regarding technical aspects, connection issues need to be addressed promptly. I would rate it eight out of ten, as these issues require immediate resolution to meet client requirements. Overall review rating: 9/10.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution.
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...
What needs improvement with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
I don't think there is any bad feature in AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery as such. It's more of when you do disaster recovery, you think of it more holistically. You want flexibility in terms of opti...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataPlatform?
The pricing of Cohesity Data Cloud is good. Comparatively, compared to IBM and Commvault, Cohesity Data Cloud offers the best deal for my environment.
What needs improvement with Cohesity Imanis Data?
They still have quite some way to go for improving their agents. As we have many snapshots which are agentless, we know that for recovery, for instance, if you want to do file recovery, an agent is...
What is your primary use case for Cohesity Imanis Data?
The usual use cases are mainly for VMware-related backups and Nutanix backups. We have some physical servers where we perform backups and restores. It's physical as well as virtual, but mainly virt...
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
Imanis Data, DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
Navis, 1st Security Bank, Brown University, WestLotto
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