AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] comparison

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Quest Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 92% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

Quest Rapid Recovery EOL and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery compete in the disaster recovery and data protection market. AWS seems to have the upper hand due to its superior cloud integration and flexibility, despite Rapid Recovery's ease of use and robust features.

Features: Quest Rapid Recovery provides granular recovery points, customizable backup schedules, and robust snapshot and replication capabilities. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery integrates seamlessly with AWS services, supports automated recovery processes, and manages infrastructure concerns effortlessly.

Room for Improvement: Quest Rapid Recovery needs to enhance GUI response time, improve tech support speed, and expand tape backup and outdated system support. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery users seek better automation, improved logging, and an intuitive failback process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Quest Rapid Recovery benefits from on-premises deployment utilizing existing infrastructure, with generally prompt customer service but variable support effectiveness. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery supports hybrid and public cloud deployments and enjoys a good reputation for customer service, though onboarding could improve.

Pricing and ROI: Quest Rapid Recovery faces concerns over high licensing costs but provides perpetual licensing options. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery's pay-as-you-go model can be costly, yet its deployment flexibility is valued. Both solutions emphasize strong data protection as a worthwhile investment despite costs.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (8th), Cloud Backup (9th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th)

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Kavya S

Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

Continuous replication has protected critical servers and supports seamless disaster recovery drills

Some features that I personally feel can be improved are more simplified monitoring and reporting. As I previously mentioned, the console shows the replication status. If it had more detailed dashboards or built-in reports for DR readiness, it would make it easier for the teams to track everything in one place. Another improvement would be cost visibility and optimization guidance in optimizing the cost and also giving us visibility of it. Because the staging resources and replication storage are running continuously, it would be very helpful for organizations and users if AWS provided clearer cost insights, recommendations, and remediations to optimize the DR environment. It would also be useful if AWS added more automation options for application-level recovery, such as easier ways to handle IP changes, domain name system (DNS) updates, or application dependencies during failover. Additionally, we can simplify the setup and configuration process. For someone new to the service, understanding the staging settings, launch templates, and networking configurations can take some time. Setup simplicity and more detailed monitoring and alerting features would be beneficial. If we could add that, we can easily track the replication health, lag, and potential issues. Instead of relying on other additional tools for monitoring and alerting features, we can rely on AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery itself.

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Ujwal Sawant

Technical Manager at Optimistic Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd

Reliable and efficient for our data backup needs

I would rate the easiness of the initial setup as an eight out of ten. During our initial setup of Quest Rapid Recovery, we encountered some smaller issues, mainly related to version compatibility and system changes. Setting up Quest Rapid Recovery was quick and done within a day. We started by ensuring the required prerequisites were in place. One server was dedicated to Rapid Recovery, and another acted as a proxy for communication. After installing the Rapid Recovery client on both servers and establishing communication, we configured settings and set up a backup schedule, deciding on file-level or full backups as needed. The process was straightforward, making the deployment efficient and completed within a day. One person with the right skills is all it takes for the deployment.

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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

"Some of the most valuable features of this product include its ability to manage disaster recovery effectively."

"CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution."

"The ability to replicate our database and our data from one cloud to another is the most valuable feature."

"The strong points are the stability and scalability of the solution, as well as the convenience of it being cloud-based."

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

"AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery has positively impacted my organization by securing and stabilizing our platform."

"CloudEndure is easy, and block-level replication will happen."

"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."

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"Not having to switch tapes is wonderful. It makes it so easy. We have an on-prem deployment that we also replicate to an offsite replication host. So by not having to deal with tapes and moving them off-site every day and every week, that's amazing ease of use for us."

"Rapid Recovery is one of the most durable and rock-stable solutions."

"Just knowing that the data is easily recoverable is our ROI. It definitely lowers risk."

"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to back up a physical server to another physical or virtual server."

"It is more fully integrated with the hypervisor, particularly with VMware solution, and it is simple to create replica sets to our VR site."

"The data protection strategy varies on a case-by-case basis, but overall, it's doing well."

"It is very easy to use, and it saves hours on each restore."

"I sleep well at night knowing that our systems are protected."

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Cons

"Because the replication is continuous and block-level, if a production server is hit by ransomware, the encrypted garbage data is often replicated to the DR site in near-real time."

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

"However, the user interface and monitoring features could be improved to make the overall experience better."

"The UI could be a little sleeker."

"Pricing could be improved."

"AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is stable, but it can be improved."

"I would say it did not provide enough flexibility for all our backup needs."

"An improved AWS pricing model is needed."

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"The archive feature is a little cryptic. I don't think that it is very understandable."

"The on-premises deployment model shouldn't have a maintenance fee. If there's going to be technical support, they need it to be free or it should be paid on upon adopting the solution."

"One area where Quest Rapid Recovery has room for improvement is in the handling of snapshots on Hyper-V."

"It's not really Quest's fault, but the only issue that I had during the time when I was doing a lot of our restores is whenever the server reboots, it has to bring all of the repositories back in again, which takes around five to six hours to pull eight terabytes back in again."

"For the most part, it is really good in terms of flexibility and choice of recovery methods. What we found lacking was being able to back up virtual volumes that are clustered. We ran out of luck there. There should be an option for backing up clustered virtual volumes."

"In terms of what needs improvement in Quest Rapid Recovery, though the solution is seamless, right now, they are just giving the software which means we'll need to arrange the hardware. If they can combine the appliance and software, that would be a great approach. In the next release of Quest Rapid Recovery, it would be great if they'd add a folder backup feature because only a snapshot backup feature is available at the moment."

"There could be better space management for incremental data. When you use incremental data, the space in the appliance keeps on going up. There should be a better way to manage the space. You have to manage the incremental data to reduce the time."

"The terminology didn't seem easily available. When I go to the website, it is hard to search for things. You get all the articles, then you finally get the search button. They need the search at the top of the knowledge base. Then, on occasion, if you get an error message in the system, which is very important, it says, "Click here for more information," but I never get more information. The search engine doesn't find it or it is some weird error. It has never worked for me."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I feel the product's pricing is a good value. Licensing is pretty straightforward."

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

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

"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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"I'm not aware of the exact cost of Quest Rapid Recovery because I'm from the technical team, but in general, the solution is quite competitive cost-wise."

"The pricing is on the higher end."

"I believe the basic license comes with six terabytes, whereas a lot of the other ones are four terabytes. From the price point, it seemed a lot better than the comparative models, such as Datto, Barracuda, and some of the others. I believe Barracuda was about $15,000 for four terabytes, and Quest was around $12,000 for six terabytes. Pricing is based on the period. There is just the maintenance fee that you have to pay annually, or you can pay for a three-year or four-year contract. This includes Premier Support."

"Licensing fees are based on the amount of data that you want to store, which is related to how many customers you want to cover."

"When I purchased the change to the license, it was $1,600. I think that was for changing the license. I don't believe that I had to purchase technical support in a while, so I must've bought maybe for five years, but I don't feel there was a huge cost involved in technical support. Its cost was definitely worth it because we've had a fantastic experience with them."

"Its price is okay. It is reasonable in terms of the way it works."

"I don't think the licensing for the product is very expensive."

"It's very expensive which is why I want to drop it. They charge us per core and we have a six-core server. It's expensive to pay for maintenance charges. I want to switch to something cheaper."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	2

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Also Known As

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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)

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] provides easy-to-use backup and recovery capabilities, emphasizing granular recovery and point-in-time restoration with simple installation, data replication, and user-friendly navigation.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] helps manage infrastructure environments with features supporting disk backup, archiving, VM standby, and replication. Despite limitations like sluggish GUI, lack of support for tape and Mac, and high memory use, users appreciate its real-time data replication and strong reliability. The tool is employed in on-prem deployments and aids in disaster recovery, protecting data across cloud and on-premise servers, securing databases, and facilitating quick recovery during failures.

What are Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]'s key features?

Ease of Use: Simplifies operations with a user-friendly interface.
Granular Recovery: Allows detailed data retrieval.
Point-in-Time Restoration: Enables specific time data recovery.
Real-time Replication: Ensures up-to-date data replication.
Compression and Deduplication: Streamlines data management.

What benefits can users expect from Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]?

Improved Storage Efficiency: Enhanced by archiving and disk backup support.
Flexibility: Utilizing VM standby and replication features.
Reliability: Offers fast emergency recovery with minimal admin burden.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] is integral for industries requiring robust data protection, encompassing crucial server and database backups in compliance-focused environments with SQL databases and Hyper-V hosts, ensuring swift and dependable recovery solutions.

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