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Cloud Rewind (formerly Appranix) vs Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Cloud Rewind (formerly Appr...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (46th), SaaS Backup (25th)
Nimesa Backup and Recovery ...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (45th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (26th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Center Backup solutions, they serve different purposes. Cloud Rewind (formerly Appranix) is designed for Cloud Backup and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 0.2% mindshare.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cloud Rewind (formerly Appranix)1.0%
Veeam Data Platform6.5%
Commvault Cloud4.3%
Other88.2%
Cloud Backup
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS0.2%
Veeam Data Platform5.4%
Commvault Cloud3.2%
Other91.2%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1370448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Ecosystem Solution Architect Lead for UK, Ireland, Arfica at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Provides operational efficiencies and recovers virtual instances quickly
For our clients, we use the solution to protect their virtual instances and instantly recover them in the event of a compromise  The solution has provided operational efficiencies. The platform's most effective feature is quickly recovering virtual instances into a separate environment. They…
George Onalo - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise DevOps Lead at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Automated disaster recovery has cut manual work and now protects cross‑region workloads confidently
There are three major areas where Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS can be improved: infrastructure as code integration, predictive AI analytics, and data compression. Currently, we construct our automated landing zones using IaC, but we still have to jump into Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS UI afterwards to manually configure the application backup groups and policies. Being able to declare all our backup schedules directly inside our Terraform code would streamline our automation pipelines massively. In terms of predictive AI reporting, it needs to be more reliable. While it executes scheduled backups perfectly, it lacks proactive anomaly detection. We want the AI agent to accurately predict and flag a potential backup failure or snapshot timeout before the job actually triggers and fails. This would save our DevOps team tons of triage time.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The platform's most effective feature is quickly recovering virtual instances into a separate environment."
"Overall, these features make day-to-day backup operations more structured, reduce operational overhead, and improve confidence around recovery preparedness and cloud resilience."
"As an Advanced Tier Partner, Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS has had a major positive impact on our delivery velocity and engineering efficiency."
"Previously, if we had any disaster or any issue, it would take days to bring the environment back up to the original state, and with Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS, we can do that within a couple of hours, which greatly reduces downtime in the case of disaster recovery."
"Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS helped us automate backup scheduling and policy management, gave us centralized visibility with a dashboard across AWS workloads of multiple accounts, helped us with a faster recovery process, and majorly reduced our operational overhead while improving our ransomware and data protection."
 

Cons

"They could add more intelligence features in the workflow through automation."
"Customer support is fair and okay, though it could be better."
"Regarding customer support, as this is a very new product and relatively new in the market, I am not sure how long they have been around, but there seems to be a lack of understanding with the support team."
"Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS has a fairly small market presence."
"One area where Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS could improve is expanding advanced analytics and predictive monitoring capabilities, especially for identifying backup risks, storage optimization opportunities, and recovery readiness trends more proactively."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The additional cost is cloud storage, which the public cloud provider charges."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
25%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
43%
Comms Service Provider
21%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

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What needs improvement with Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS?
There are three major areas where Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS can be improved: infrastructure as code integration, predictive AI analytics, and data compression. Currently, we construct our ...
What is your primary use case for Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS?
Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS automates application-centric disaster recovery and lifecycle snapshot management for enterprise clients that are migrating to AWS. We recently migrated a large r...
What advice do you have for others considering Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS?
I would rate Nimesa Backup and Recovery for AWS an eight out of ten. There is still room for improvement, but eight out of ten is a fair rating. I took off those two points primarily due to the inf...
 

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