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N2W pros and cons

Vendor: N2WS
4.8 out of 5

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PROS

Backup and recovery are highly valued, allowing developers to work with confidence.
The combination of disaster recovery, backups, and scheduling offers flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
N2W has significantly improved operational efficiency and business continuity confidence.
N2W transformed backup operations from manual processes into a reliable, automated system.
N2W provides a powerful, mature set of features that address complex backup and disaster recovery requirements.

CONS

Deployment could use improvement, indicating that the process is not as smooth as desired.
Reporting engine usage could be simplified to better meet user needs.
There is interest in seeing native support for more AWS services beyond EC2 and EBS.
Pricing may increase with larger backup volumes, highlighting the necessity of cost-optimization strategies.
Version upgrade process could be streamlined to allow for more seamless in-place updates.
 

N2W Pros review quotes

reviewer2802048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Feb 10, 2026
Overall, N2WS has transformed our backup operations from a manual, error-prone process into a reliable, automated system that scales with our growing AWS infrastructure.
reviewer2757345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 15, 2025
N2W has significantly improved our operational efficiency and our confidence in our business continuity plan.
George Philippakos - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Manager at St. John's University
Aug 21, 2025
N2WS is a powerful solution with a rich set of features designed to address even the most complex backup and disaster recovery requirements.
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Adebayo Ogunleye - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology & Customer Success at Maplewave
Nov 18, 2025
N2W has positively impacted our organization by assisting us in areas of cost savings when compared to other tools available, and it has also given us an extra layer of protection.
reviewer2782434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 12, 2025
A recovery process that had previously taken a team of engineers the better part of a day was successfully completed in under an hour.
BC
Senior Manager of Platform Engineering at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Oct 16, 2025
After acquiring two additional products in 2018, which we migrated from data centers to the cloud, N2W allowed us to streamline our backup process for three products within one tool.
James Flores - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Systems Engineer at a writing and editing position with 51-200 employees
Sep 29, 2025
Having multiple policies and schedules handled for me takes the burden out of managing backups across multiple departments.
reviewer2837103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 8, 2026
I absolutely love this software and the peace of mind it brings to me and my organization.
S Shivangi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Oct 14, 2025
The ability to recover instances or volumes within minutes has improved our RTOs dramatically.
LR
Data Backup & Recovery Administrator at LTIMINDTREE
Sep 18, 2023
N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances.
 

N2W Cons review quotes

reviewer2802048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Feb 10, 2026
The user interface feels somewhat dated and could benefit from modernization.
reviewer2757345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 15, 2025
The process for version upgrades, which sometimes requires deploying a new instance, could be streamlined to allow for a more seamless in-place update.
George Philippakos - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Manager at St. John's University
Aug 21, 2025
Improved disaster recovery options and expanded multicloud support are two areas where N2WS has already made significant advancements in the latest version.
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Adebayo Ogunleye - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology & Customer Success at Maplewave
Nov 18, 2025
One area where we would appreciate improvement is support for additional AWS native services, such as Lambda function backups and S3 beyond archive.
reviewer2782434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 12, 2025
The EKS environment solution could be improved.
BC
Senior Manager of Platform Engineering at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Oct 16, 2025
S3 backups, which I know is already in the feature pipeline, would be a useful improvement.
James Flores - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Systems Engineer at a writing and editing position with 51-200 employees
Sep 29, 2025
They could expand their offering to include Lambda function backups and other native AWS services, as these can be recreated through CloudFormation or Terraform.
reviewer2837103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 8, 2026
An additional feature within resource control would be to automatically downgrade volumes to a cheaper storage tier through a policy or when instances are stopped via the resource manager.
S Shivangi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Oct 14, 2025
It could be improved to include disaster recovery in cross accounts for Azure in upcoming releases.
LR
Data Backup & Recovery Administrator at LTIMINDTREE
Sep 18, 2023
The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient.