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Azure Backup vs Clumio comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Backup
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
18th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Clumio
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
20th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (13th), SaaS Backup (4th), AI IT Support (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Azure Backup is 1.2%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Clumio is 1.1%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Backup1.2%
Clumio1.1%
Other97.7%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Sanjay Sahu - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Capgemini
Has supported secure data storage with incremental backups and centralized monitoring
Azure Backup supports all the features that we need, so additional features are not an immediate need for me. The documentation for Azure Backup seems okay for me; it is good overall, but it should be more descriptive for each item. It should elaborate more on how backup and restore are fulfilled in different scenarios. One of the reviews indicates that Azure Backup needs improvements for specific backup options beyond just full VM snapshots. I believe it should be improved actually. Regarding specific backup options, I say there should be improvements compared to how they provided them in older days.
reviewer2845605 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Ransomware recovery has become validated and protects critical workloads across multiple accounts
The account onboarding process deploys around 20 IAM roles per account, which is heavy. Consolidating those or offering a slimmer permission set for read-only backup (versus full restore) would help with security review friction. Cross-account restore into a target account still requires manual steps for KMS. If Clumio could handle re-encrypting with the target account's CMK during restore rather than requiring Multi-Region Key pre-staging, that would save significant preparation time. Also, the restore API could surface better progress telemetry since right now, large RDS restores are a bit of a black box until they complete or fail. Finally, DocumentDB and MongoDB Atlas backup support would round out our stack nicely.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the ease in which it backs up our data."
"It's very simple to configure which is very useful. It's not complex to configure it."
"You can select the tiering for your backup and manage your cost."
"It offers seamless integration."
"I like that it's a simple system."
"The principal use is as a backup solution for the Azure environment because we use 365 solutions."
"Azure is easy and simple to configure; it's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the file recovery and file vault."
"Clumio has a straightforward setup"
"Working with the Clumio/Commvault team has been a very good experience."
"Clumio gave us a genuinely isolated vault that sits outside our AWS Organization's blast radius."
"Clumio proved to be the most cost-effective option."
"We now have the peace of mind knowing that our entire AWS infrastructure is fully backed up into an air-gapped environment."
"It has improved our disaster recovery footprint; previously, backups were only stored on premises, and having an offsite backup improves our reliability and security."
"We have been able to safely and securely save our backups off of AWS."
 

Cons

"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"Microsoft's technical support for Azure products could be improved."
"The only thing I would say that could be improved is the reporting. It can be a little more customized or something like that."
"The product could improve its performance."
"Ransomware protection is missing in Azure Backup."
"For companies frequently accessing data or not using Microsoft Azure, the solution may not be very helpful."
"We faced some issues synchronizing the information in Azure when the storage was changed."
"The reporting functionality of Azure Backup needs improvement."
"The account onboarding process deploys around 20 IAM roles per account, which is heavy."
"They need to improve their SQL backup services"
"It would be beneficial to show when backups are available and to receive alerts if there are any issues with the backups."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of this solution is good, and it is one of the easiest things that you can sell Azure with."
"The pricing of the solution does not depend on the service itself but rather on the minimum data volume encountered. This pricing approach seems reasonable and is on par with other competitors in the market. It is a good solution for on-premise needs because it is more cost-effective. When evaluating the overall financial expenditure, including operational costs and the impact on the IT team, Azure Backup is a favorable choice."
"Considering the fact that our company's enterprise-sized customers use the solution, the product's price is fine and is not on the higher side of the spectrum."
"We have enterprise-level pricing. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"We are paying about $100,000 USD per year, just for a couple of servers."
"This is an expensive solution in the Bangladesh marketplace."
"Customers prefer Azure Backup because it has a pay-as-you-go model, and they won't have to pay an upfront amount at the initial level."
"Pay as you go is the pricing model."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise24
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

How does Azure Backup differ from Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Vee...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Backup?
The pricing of Azure Backup is fine; it is a low-cost solution.
What needs improvement with Azure Backup?
Azure Backup can be improved by providing an option and a utility so we can restore quickly instead of any manual intervention. Restoration times require manual backup and manual interventions, and...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Clumio?
Price it against the cost of the alternative, not against native AWS Backup. Native backup is cheaper on paper but doesn't give you ransomware isolation. When you factor in the engineering time to ...
What needs improvement with Clumio?
The account onboarding process deploys around 20 IAM roles per account, which is heavy. Consolidating those or offering a slimmer permission set for read-only backup (versus full restore) would hel...
What advice do you have for others considering Clumio?
Invest time upfront in your Terraform module design for Clumio policies. Decide early whether backup frequency is controlled per environment or per caller because refactoring that later across many...
 

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