Best Cloud Backup Solutions in 2026: Top 8 Compared

Editor’s note: Updated the article to cover recent market trends, updated information for cloud backup solutions to reflect features, capabilities, and limitations in 2026.

Quick summary

• The right cloud backup solution depends on where the data has to live. In-account software like N2W (formerly N2WS) keeps backups in your own AWS or Azure account on your own storage bill, while SaaS platforms like Druva hold the data in the vendor’s cloud and price it per TB with the storage included.
• For AWS and Azure workloads, N2W runs inside your own account, backs up as often as every 60 seconds, and cuts snapshot storage cost by up to 92% by archiving to cheaper tiers you already pay for. It is licensed on instance count from $249 a month for 20 instances, so the price does not move with how much data sits behind them.
• Veeam and Commvault fit estates that still include on-premises systems, and both bill on consumption, so the invoice grows as the estate does.
• Wasabi and Backblaze are storage, not backup software. They are cheap places to put backups that something else created, starting at $7.99 per TB per month with no egress fees.
• The trap teams hit most often is comparing a license price against a per-TB price. One covers software only and the other includes the storage, so the two numbers do not describe the same purchase.

Cloud backup solutions: quick comparison

Solution	Best for	Pricing model	Key limitation
N2W	AWS and Azure teams who need a whole environment back, networking included	Banded on instance count, from $249/mo for 20 instances	Banding favours large data behind few instances, not many small VMs
Wasabi	Teams that already run backup software and want cheaper storage to point it at	Per TB, from $7.99/TB/mo, no egress or API fees	Storage only, no backup software. 30-day minimum retention charge
Veeam	Mixed estates that still include on-premises systems	Not a single product but separate ones, three of which publish no price	A single “Veeam price” does not exist, so budgeting means pricing four paths
Druva	Teams that want no backup infrastructure at all	Listed as private-offer-only in AWS Marketplace	Data lives in Druva’s cloud as a SaaS platform
Commvault	Large enterprises with broad workload and compliance needs	Quote-based, annual contracts	Needs dedicated expertise to architect and run
AWS Backup	Single-cloud AWS estates wanting native, policy-driven protection	Metered per GB-month plus restore and transfer charges	AWS only, and cost is hard to predict across Regions
Azure Backup	Single-cloud Azure estates billed through an existing Azure agreement	Metered per protected instance plus storage consumed	Azure only, and vaults must sit in the same Region as the resource
Google Cloud Backup and DR	Google Cloud estates that want a managed vault	Metered per GiB of protected capacity, billed hourly	Google holds the backup copy rather than your project

What Are Cloud Backup Solutions? 

Cloud backup solutions are services or technologies that allow individuals and organizations to store data in remote servers accessible via the internet. Unlike traditional on-premises backups, these solutions use cloud-based technologies to provide off-site storage and ensure data is recoverable in case of on-premise hardware failures or disasters. 

Cloud backups offer flexibility, as users can access their data anytime, anywhere, provided they have an internet connection. These services are vital for ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Whether through automated scheduling or manual uploads, cloud backup solutions reduce the risk of data loss. Additionally, these services often come with features like encryption, scalability, and versioning, making them a reliable alternative to physical backups while also simplifying the overall backup management process.

This is part of a series of articles about cloud backup services

In this article:

• Key Features of Cloud Backup Solutions
• Public vs Private vs Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud
• Notable Cloud Backup Solutions
• Frequently Asked Questions

How we evaluated these solutions

Two things are pushing teams to move now. Ransomware has made recovery a board-level concern rather than an IT one, so backup is being judged on whether a copy survives an attacker who already holds valid credentials, not just on whether it exists. And retention, privacy and disaster recovery obligations have tightened in regulated industries, which puts encryption, access controls, audit trails and geographically separate copies on the requirements list rather than the wish list. Both change what a backup tool has to do, which is why the criteria below matter more than a feature count.

These are the six things worth checking in any cloud backup tool, and they are how we judged the eight below.

Recovery point and version history

Your recovery point is how much work you lose when something fails, and it is set by how often the tool can take a backup rather than by how fast it restores. Versioning is the same idea applied to individual files: keeping historical copies so you can go back to a known good state after an accidental overwrite, a deletion, or a ransomware event. Most tools let you keep a set number of versions or follow a time-based policy, such as daily versions for a week, weekly for a month and monthly for a year. We checked the shortest interval each tool supports and how much control you get over retention.

Automation and centralized control

Backup that depends on somebody remembering is not backup. Look for scheduling by rule rather than by hand, covering frequency, resource type and retention, with the tool detecting new resources and protecting them without anyone adding them. Automated cloud backup is table stakes now; the difference is whether policies attach to tags and inherit automatically. Alongside that, a single console matters once you pass one account or one team: deploying policy, watching job status and troubleshooting failures from one place, with role-based access so different people get different permissions. We checked how new resources get protected and how much of the estate you can see at once.

Related: read our comparison of enterprise cloud backup tools

Encryption, immutability and ransomware posture

Encryption is the baseline: AES-256 at rest, TLS in transit, and in some services end-to-end encryption where data is encrypted before it leaves your environment and only you hold the key. The harder question is whether a backup can be deleted by someone holding valid credentials. That comes down to which lock is actually applied, S3 Object Lock in compliance mode, an Azure immutable vault, or a retention policy an administrator can simply lift. Some platforms add threat detection and anomaly scanning on top. We checked the lock, not the label.

Where the data lives and who controls it

Your account or the vendor’s. This one decision drives who pays for the storage, who pays egress to get it back, what your auditor sees, and what happens to the copies if you stop paying. In-account tools keep backups on your own cloud bill. SaaS platforms hold the data themselves, which is why their per-TB price includes the storage.

How far a copy can travel

Another Region protects you from a Region failing. Another account protects you from a compromised account. Another cloud protects you from the provider itself, and that last one is the only version that is genuinely air-gapped. We checked which of the three each tool can actually reach, and what the copy can be restored into once it gets there.

Scalability and what it costs

Cloud storage is effectively unlimited, so the constraint is not capacity, it is what happens to the bill as data grows. Elastic storage means you add backup footprint without buying hardware or re-architecting anything, and tiered storage keeps recent restore points on fast media while older ones move to cheaper archival tiers. What differs between vendors is the axis the price moves on: per TB stored, per workload, per machine, or not at all. We checked what each price actually covers, because a software license and a per-TB managed service do not include the same things.

Public vs Private vs Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud

Public Cloud Backup

Public cloud backup uses infrastructure provided by third-party vendors like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. These services offer backup capabilities on a pay-as-you-go basis, making them cost-effective and easy to scale. Users share the same infrastructure with other tenants, but logical isolation ensures data privacy and security.

Public cloud backup is suitable for small to medium-sized businesses seeking minimal maintenance and quick deployment. The vendor manages hardware, software, and updates, allowing organizations to focus on data protection policies rather than infrastructure management. However, concerns such as data sovereignty and compliance need to be carefully evaluated depending on the business’s regulatory requirements.

Private Cloud Backup

Private cloud backup refers to a dedicated cloud environment operated exclusively for a single organization. It can be hosted on-premises or in a data center managed by a third party. This model offers improved control over data, infrastructure, and security policies, making it suitable for organizations with strict regulatory or data governance needs.

Because the environment is not shared, private clouds can be customized extensively to meet performance, compliance, and retention requirements. However, this comes at a higher cost due to the need for dedicated resources and infrastructure management. Private cloud backups are common in sectors like finance, healthcare, and government, where data sensitivity is paramount.

Hybrid Cloud Backup

Hybrid cloud backup combines both public and private cloud environments to balance cost, control, and flexibility. Typically, sensitive or mission-critical data is stored in the private cloud, while less critical data is backed up to the public cloud. This approach enables organizations to optimize storage costs and meet compliance requirements without sacrificing scalability.

Hybrid models also support local backups for faster recovery times while leveraging the cloud for disaster recovery and long-term retention. This dual approach ensures high availability and resilience, especially in cases of partial outages or on-site hardware failures.

Multi-Cloud Backup

Multi-cloud backup involves using multiple public cloud providers simultaneously. This strategy helps avoid vendor lock-in and increases redundancy by distributing backups across different platforms. If one provider experiences an outage or security breach, data can still be recovered from another source.

Organizations adopting a multi-cloud approach benefit from competitive pricing, performance optimization, and geographic redundancy. However, managing multiple cloud environments introduces complexity, requiring strong orchestration tools and consistent backup policies across platforms.

Notable Cloud Backup Solutions 

Head to Head Comparison

Product	Description	Pros	Cons
N2W	Cloud-native backup and disaster recovery platform for AWS and Azure, with cross-account, cross-region, and cross-cloud recovery. Agentless architecture with policy-driven automation and DR orchestration. Deployed with customer-controlled storage and optional air-gapped repositories.	– Agentless, API-based cloud-native design– Fast, granular recovery (instance, disk, FLR)– Cross-region and cross-account replication– Cross-cloud restore (AWS → Azure)– Immutable storage options and air-gapped repositories– Automated DR drills and orchestration– Advanced lifecycle and cost optimization	– Focused on IaaS workloads – Not a full replacement for SaaS backup suites (e.g., Microsoft 365, Salesforce)
Wasabi	Cloud object storage platform optimized for backup and recovery workloads with predictable pricing and cyber-resilience features.	– No egress or API request fees– Fast backup and recovery performance– Built-in immutability and virtual air-gapping– Broad backup vendor compatibility– Strong security controls (MFA, IAM, SSO, encryption)– Cost-efficient cloud storage	– Minimum retention charges– UI complexity– Object availability concerns– Support responsiveness– Enterprise scalability concerns
Veeam	Software-defined backup platform for hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments with integrated security and recovery capabilities.	– Strong ransomware protection and immutability– Rapid recovery and clean restore validation– Broad hybrid and multicloud coverage– Proactive threat detection and malware analysis– Cross-platform recovery and portability– AI-assisted operations and compliance validation	– Complex deployment– No native multi-tenancy– Recovery UX issues– Limited AWS immutability support– Complex backup configuration– Cost estimation inaccuracies
Druva	Fully SaaS-based backup platform for cloud-native and hybrid environments with centralized management and infrastructure-free operations.	– Fully SaaS-based architecture– Unified protection across AWS and Azure– Centralized visibility and management– Immutable ransomware protection– Air-gapped backup security– Lower storage costs through deduplication– No egress fees	– SaaS dependency– Limited region support– protects AWS and Azure as separate workload families– Rigid scheduling– Learning curve
Commvault	Enterprise-grade backup and recovery platform with broad workload support, cyber resilience, and AI-driven protection.	– Broad workload protection across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem– Ransomware-resistant immutable storage– Flexible cloud and air-gapped storage options– Cleanroom recovery environments– Advanced cyber resilience and risk analysis– AI-powered automation and security features	– Complex cross-cloud setup– Limited data archiving options– VPC/infrastructure recovery gaps– Steep learning curve– Policy limitations– Infrastructure optimization complexity
AWS Backup	Native AWS service for centralized backup management and protection of AWS and hybrid workloads through policy-based automation.	– Centralized backup management across AWS services– Automated policy-based scheduling and retention– Cross-region and cross-account backup replication– Immutable backups and air-gapped vault protection– Broad AWS and hybrid workload support– Compliance monitoring and auditing capabilities	– High overall cost– Complex troubleshooting and error diagnosis– Opaque pricing structure– Limited advanced workflow customization– Incomplete service support for some workloads– Instance management limitations
Azure Backup	Native Azure backup solution with integrated security, governance, ransomware protection, and hybrid workload support.	– Centralized backup management and governance– Built-in ransomware protection and immutable vaults– Highly durable geo-redundant storage– Cross-region and cross-subscription recovery– Long-term retention optimization and archive tiering– Strong Azure ecosystem integration	– Complex pricing model– Potentially expensive at scale– Region restrictions for Recovery Services vaults– Complex user interface– Slow backup and restore performance– Limited support for non-Microsoft environments
Google Cloud Backup	Backup and recovery service for Google Cloud workloads with immutable vaults, centralized management, and automated protection.	– Immutable backup vaults– Centralized backup management– Broad workload coverage (VMs, databases, file systems, VMware)– Cross-region and cross-project recovery– Strong ransomware recovery capabilities– Infrastructure-as-code and automation support	– Unclear pricing and documentation– Lack of advanced backup and archiving features– Slow support and issue resolution– Console and policy management limitations

Third-Party Backup and Storage Solutions

1. N2W

What it does:

N2W is backup and DR for AWS and Azure that runs as an EC2 instance or Azure VM in your own account rather than as a SaaS platform, so data and backups never leave your environment. Snapshot backups run as often as every 60 seconds. Incremental archiving into cheaper tiers you own cuts storage cost by up to 92% against standard EBS snapshots. Recovery covers individual files through to a whole environment, including the network layer, and copies can be pushed cross-account, cross-region or cross-cloud with native immutability locks applied.

Best for:

AWS and Azure teams who need to recover a working environment rather than a list of resources, and who want the backups to stay under their own account and their own storage bill.

Key features:

• Low RPO: backups run as often as every 60 seconds, which pulls the recovery point close to zero without paying for a hot standby.
• Agentless for EC2, EBS and RDS, working through native cloud APIs rather than software installed on each machine. EKS is backed up with managed Velero, which does run in the cluster.
• Recovery Scenarios clone VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups and VPN configuration through an editable CloudFormation template, then launch grouped servers in a set order so an application tier comes up before the database it depends on.
• Immutable backups are created with each platform’s own lock, in the mode where nobody can delete them: S3 Object Lock in compliance mode on AWS, and locked time-based retention on Azure. Not even the root user can remove a recovery point before its retention expires.
• Cross-cloud recovery restores AWS workloads into Azure, which puts the copy under a different provider, different credentials and a different control plane. Bootable cross-cloud restore is Ubuntu only at version 5.0.
• Incremental archiving into cheaper tiers you already own, S3 and Glacier on AWS, Azure Blob, or Wasabi, cuts storage cost by up to 92% against keeping everything as standard EBS snapshots.
• Dry Run exercises a full recovery plan using read-only cloud APIs, checking that subnets, IAM permissions and specific IP addresses are still available. Nothing launches, so it costs nothing to run monthly between real failover tests.
• As of version 5.0 the same console also covers Google Cloud VMs and disks. One deployment manages all three clouds, and adding a cloud means adding an account rather than installing anything new.

Pros:

• Backups never leave your account, so there is no vendor-held copy to negotiate over and no egress charge to get your own data back.
• The license does not move with data volume. Petabytes behind 20 instances costs the same as gigabytes behind 20 instances.
• Recovery covers individual files through to a whole environment, including the network layer that most tools leave you to rebuild by hand.
• Month to month with no contract, so the commitment matches the way cloud infrastructure is actually bought.

Cons:

• Focused on IaaS workloads (limited PaaS/SaaS coverage)
• Not a full replacement for SaaS backup suites (e.g., Microsoft 365, Salesforce)
• Pricing bands are set by instance count, so an estate of many small, lightly loaded VMs is the shape where the model is least advantageous.
• Google Cloud support is narrower than AWS or Azure at version 5.0: VMs and disks only, with no archiving and no immutability there.

Pricing:

Licensed on how many instances you protect, not how much data sits behind them. The Standard plan covers 20 instances at $249 a month whether those instances hold 100 GB or 100 TB, and plans step up at 50, 200 and 1000+ instances. Month to month with no contract, annual and bi-annual terms discounted, and a 30-day free trial. Cloud storage and compute stay on your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud bill. Pricing as of August 2026.

What users say:

“No other provider could support the specific FSx we used and ensure seamless data security across different regions and accounts.”

Alon Bar, Global CISO, Checkmarx

Bottom line:

If the backups have to stay in your own account and you need the network back as well as the data, N2W is the one on this list built that way.

AWS Backup vs N2WS covers the AWS-native side of this decision in detail.

2. Wasabi

What it does:

Wasabi sells S3-compatible object storage priced as a flat rate per TB. It is a destination for backups rather than a tool that creates them, and it is one of the tiers N2W archives into.

Best for:

Teams that already run backup software and want somewhere cheaper to point it, particularly where egress charges have made restore testing expensive.

Key features:

• No egress or API request fees, so retrieving data and testing restores does not add to the bill.
• Storage performance comparable to premium object tiers at a lower price.
• Object Lock and virtual air-gapping to protect stored backups from ransomware and unauthorized changes.
• Broad backup ecosystem integration, with S3-compatible support across major backup and recovery vendors.
• Server-side encryption, MFA, IAM, SSO and multi-user authorization.

Pros:

• Predictable per-TB pricing with no retrieval charges, which makes the cost of a restore knowable in advance.
• Works with tools you already own rather than requiring a platform change.
• Immutability is available at the storage layer, independent of whatever wrote the backup.

Cons:

• Deleted objects are billed for a minimum of 30 days, so short-lived data costs more than the headline rate suggests.
• Users report the billing model as difficult to follow, including charges for data they had already removed.
• The console and permission tooling are technical enough that configuring bucket access usually means reading the documentation first.
• Some users report object availability around 99.9%, with occasional delays reaching stored objects.
• Support response times during outages and billing disputes draw consistent criticism, including on premium plans.
• Feature depth and support are seen as thin for large enterprise use.

Pricing:

$7.99 per TB per month pay-as-you-go with no egress or API request fees, and reserved capacity available in one-year and longer terms. This is storage only. It does not include backup software, so it is not comparable to a backup license and it does not replace one. A 30-day minimum retention charge applies to deleted objects. Pricing as of August 2026, from wasabi.com/pricing.

What users say:

“The initial setup was very intuitive, which made starting off a breeze. I also appreciate that it provides a much less expensive option to store offsite backups in a hot location without ingress or egress charges.”

[source: G2]

Bottom line:

Wasabi competes with S3 and Azure Blob on price, not with the tools on the rest of this list.

3. Veeam Backup

What it does:

Veeam is a software-defined data protection platform covering on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments from one product family. It is the broadest coverage on this list and the most complicated to price.

Best for:

Organizations with real on-premises infrastructure still in service, who want one vendor across VMware, physical servers and cloud workloads.

Key features:

• Immutable backups, Zero Trust controls for Veeam-held storage, role-based access and approval workflows to reduce backup tampering.
• Instant recovery, verified clean restore points and orchestrated recovery workflows.
• Coverage across on-premises infrastructure and the major clouds from a single platform.
• Malware analysis, anomaly detection and indicators-of-compromise awareness.
• Recovery and migration across hypervisors and cloud environments.

Pros:

• The widest workload coverage here, which matters when the estate is genuinely mixed.
• Built-in ransomware protection, including clean-restore validation before you bring a workload back.
• Portability across hypervisors (with additional Veeam products) reduces the cost of changing platform later.

Cons:

• Deployment leans on templated methods such as CloudFormation, which limits customization for teams that provision infrastructure their own way.
• Backup rules require tagging and manual input, which gets awkward across large or fast-changing cloud estates.
• No native multi-tenancy, which is a problem for MSPs and for organizations isolating backup administration by department.
• Parts of the interface and documentation still use on-premises terminology that does not map onto cloud workflows.
• Recovery often means identifying and selecting backups by hand, with limited filtering or search tools to speed up the process.
• File and folder-level recovery restores to the same instance, which can reintroduce malware to the machine being recovered.
• No immutable EBS snapshots on AWS. S3 Object Lock is supported for some storage classes, and S3 Infrequent Access is not.
• The archive cost estimator does not account for all variables, which limits its use for budgeting.
  Unused backups are cleaned up only once a day, so storage usage spikes in between.

Pricing:

There is no single Veeam price, because Veeam sells four separate things. Veeam Backup for AWS and for Azure is self-deployed, licensed per protected workload on an annual term, and you provide the storage. Veeam Backup & Replication is the on-premises and cloud console, sold BYOL, with no price on its Marketplace listing. Veeam Data Cloud for Azure is managed with storage included at $42 per TB per month, and the AWS edition of Veeam Data Cloud publishes no price at all. Veeam Data Cloud Vault is storage used as a backup target with no backup software, at $14 per TB per month Foundation and $24 Advanced. Pricing as of August 2026.

What users say:

“Veeam continues to hold a strong position in the market, with limited alternatives offering comparable level of capability. At the same time, this places higher expectations on product maturity. In its current state, the software would benefit from further refinement.”

[source: Gartner PeerInsights]

Bottom line:

Veeam is a safe answer for a mixed estate, provided you price all four products before comparing it to anything else.

4. Druva

What it does:

Druva is a fully SaaS backup platform for cloud-native and hybrid workloads. Druva runs the infrastructure and holds the backup data, so there is nothing to deploy in your own account.

Best for:

Small platform teams who would rather not operate backup infrastructure, and who are comfortable with the backup copy living in the vendor’s cloud.

Key features:

• SaaS: No backup infrastructure to size, patch or scale within your own account.
• AWS, Azure, cloud-native applications and databases through one console.
• Centralized visibility across cloud environments.
• Immutable backups, with recovery into a new account if production is compromised.
• Air-gapped storage with encryption in transit and at rest.
• Global deduplication, which reduces the volume actually stored.

Pros:

• The lowest operational overhead on this list, since there is no instance of anything to run.
• Recovery into a clean account is a first-class path rather than a workaround.
• Deduplication and no egress fees make the effective cost lower than the headline suggests.

Cons:

• Entirely dependent on Druva’s hosted console. If it is down, you cannot manage or recover backups, and you do not control the timeline for fixing it.
• Supports 14 AWS Regions plus GovCloud, which is narrow next to tools that work anywhere your account does.
• Schedules are limited to daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, with no minute-level granularity.
• Protects AWS and Azure as separate workload families.
• Users describe a steeper learning curve than comparable tools.

Pricing:

Not publicly listed All nine Druva dimensions on AWS Marketplace are private offer only, sold on 12, 24 or 36 month contracts, so there is no monthly option and no figure a buyer can look up. Billing is in units across three product families that meter independently and do not roll into a single number: Cloudranger for public cloud resources including EC2, EBS, RDS and S3, Phoenix for data center and hybrid workloads, and Insync for endpoints and productivity data.

An estate spanning cloud and endpoints buys more than one of them. Ransomware Recovery is a separate add-on rather than part of a backup tier. The published overage rates are $0.007 and $0.008 per unit on the two Phoenix tiers and $0.001 per unit on Ransomware Recovery, and the Cloudranger dimensions publish no overage rate at all. Because it is SaaS, the contract price includes the backup storage, which is what makes it non-comparable to a software license. Marketplace listing checked August 2026.

What users say:

“Broader application and integration depth is an area where there’s room for growth. Druva covers core workloads like Microsoft 365 and endpoints very well, but organizations with more specialized applications or deeper integration needs (for example with SIEM tools, ticketing systems, or niche enterprise apps) may find the ecosystem less extensive than they’d like.”

[source: G2]

Bottom line:

Druva removes the most operational work of anything here, and the trade is that your backups live in Druva’s cloud rather than your own account, on a multi-year contract whose price is negotiated rather than published.

5. Commvault

What it does:

Commvault is an enterprise data protection platform covering cloud, on-premises and SaaS workloads, with cyber resilience tooling layered on top. It is the most capable and the most demanding product on this list.

Best for:

Large organizations with a wide workload mix, formal compliance obligations, and staff dedicated to running backup.

Key features:

• Cloud, on-premises, SaaS applications, databases, containers, endpoints and virtual machines from one platform.
• Immutable and indelible storage with hardened backup infrastructure.
• Cloud and air-gapped storage options across multiple providers.
• Cleanroom Recovery, an isolated environment for validating cyber recovery plans and restoring clean data.
• Threat detection and risk analysis alongside backup and recovery.

Pros:

• The broadest workload coverage for hybrid environments.
• Cleanroom Recovery is a genuine differentiator for organizations that have to rehearse a cyber incident, not just a hardware failure.
• Deep compliance and reporting tooling built for audited environments.

Cons:

• As a SaaS-delivered control plane, it raises access management questions for organizations handling sensitive data.
• Cannot archive RDS snapshots to cold storage such as S3 or Azure Blob, which limits cost-effective long-term retention.
• Cross-cloud recovery works but requires a virtual server acting as an HTTP proxy, which adds cost and a single point of failure.
• Disaster recovery backups must live in object storage, which makes recovery slower than snapshot-based DR.
• Architecting and scaling deduplication servers takes expertise most teams do not have in house.
• A single backup policy cannot include multiple resource types.
• Only the attributes of EC2 instances inside a VPC are backed up, not the VPC itself.
• No VPC cloning or recovery orchestration, so full-infrastructure recovery is manual.

Pricing:

Commvault sells two ways and neither produces a number you can plan against.

1. Direct, it bills on several axes at once, per user, per TB and per VM, with database backup starting around $90 per TB a month, plus services and training charged separately. Annual terms. There is no published total.
2. On the cloud marketplaces, Commvault maintains several separate listings, some of them bring-your-own-license with no price shown at all, so working out what a given design costs means assembling several listings and talking to sales.

Because it bills on consumption, the invoice grows as the estate does. Commvault also owns Clumio, so a Clumio quote and a Commvault quote come from the same vendor. Pricing as of August 2026.

What users say:

“We find the most valuable features in Commvault Cloud to be from the appliances perspective.”

[source: PeerSpot]

Bottom line:

Commvault does more than anything else here and asks for more in return, in licence cost and in the expertise needed to run it.

Native Cloud Provider Backup Solutions

6. AWS Backup

What it does:

AWS Backup is Amazon’s managed service for centralized, policy-driven protection across AWS services and some hybrid workloads. It is the default answer inside AWS and the baseline every third-party tool is measured against.

Best for:

Teams whose estate is entirely in AWS, who want protection configured with the same IAM and tagging they already use.

Key features:

• Backups across AWS services and hybrid workloads from one console.
• Automated scheduling, retention and lifecycle policies.
• Cross-Region and cross-account backup copies.
• Immutable backups, Vault Lock, and logically air-gapped vaults.
• Compliance monitoring and auditing.

Pros:

• Nothing to deploy and nothing extra to secure, since it is part of the account already.
• Native coverage across storage, compute, databases and VMware on AWS.
• Vault Lock in compliance mode is genuine immutability that AWS itself cannot override.

Cons:

• Expensive relative to competing backup tools once retention grows.
• Backup failures and error messages are difficult to diagnose.
• Cross-Region storage and recovery costs are hard to predict, so budgets drift.
• Limited customization for advanced backup workflows.
• Not every AWS service supports the same backup functionality.
• Adding new resources to existing backup jobs is awkward.
• Archiving is full snapshot only (not incremental) and you cannot choose a specific S3/Glacier tier.

Pricing:

Metered and published. You pay per GB-month of warm and cold backup storage, per GB restored, and per GB of cross-Region data transfer, with rates that differ by resource type and Region. Compliance rule evaluations are billed separately at $0.00125 each. Because there is no single rate, model it against your own retention rather than a headline number. See the AWS Backup pricing page, and our own AWS backup pricing breakdown. Rates as of August 2026.

What users say:

“While AWS Backup simplifies backup management, restoring large datasets or cross-region backups can take time depending on the workload. Some advanced recovery scenarios still require service-specific knowledge.”

[source: G2]

Bottom line:

If everything you protect is in AWS, start here and add a third-party tool only where you hit a limit you can name.

7. Azure Backup

What it does:

Azure Backup protects Azure and hybrid workloads with integrated governance, and it bills through the Azure subscription you already have.

Best for:

Teams whose estate is entirely in Azure, particularly where procurement prefers everything on one Microsoft invoice.

Key features:

• Unified monitoring, governance and backup operations through one control plane.
• Immutable vaults, role-based access control, multi-user authorization and security alerts.
• Geo-redundant storage and availability zone support.
• Restore to alternate Regions and Azure subscriptions.
• Automatic archiving of long-retention backups to cheaper tiers.

Pros:

• No procurement work, since it is billed through the existing Azure agreement.
• Immutable vaults and multi-user authorization are strong defaults for ransomware.
• Deep integration with Azure identity and policy.

Cons:

• Costs are hard to estimate across storage tiers, retention policies and data transfer.
• It is not a free product and comes with a volume-based license fee.
• Expensive at scale with long retention and large datasets.
• Recovery Services vaults must sit in the same Region as the resources they protect.
• Configuration and navigation are widely described as confusing.
• Large workloads can be slow to back up and slower to restore.
• Support for non-Microsoft environments is thin.

Pricing:

Metered, with a charge per protected instance plus the storage consumed, varying by workload type and redundancy setting. Microsoft publishes the rate card but no single headline figure, so it has to be modeled per workload. See the Azure Backup pricing page. Rates as of August 2026.

What users say:

“Azure Backup is used for both virtual machines and file shares. What I appreciate most is that once you set up the schedule, it operates just as expected. There isn’t much to dislike about this, except for the fee that’s charged for keeping data over a long retention period.”

[source: G2]

Bottom line:

The path of least resistance inside Azure, provided you model the bill before retention grows.

8. Google Cloud Backup

What it does:

Google’s managed backup service protects Google Cloud workloads into backup vaults that Google operates and isolates, with centralized policy management.

Best for:

Teams running on Google Cloud who want backups managed by the provider and are comfortable with Google holding the copy.

Key features:

• Backup vaults that prevent modification or early deletion.
• Google Cloud workloads managed from one interface.
• Compute Engine, VMware, databases and file system coverage.
• Cross-Region and cross-project recovery.
• Isolated recovery workflows after a cyberattack.

Pros:

• Vault storage is operated and isolated by Google, so an attacker with project credentials cannot reach it.
• Coverage extends past VMs into managed databases and VMware Engine.
• Cross-project recovery gives a real blast-radius boundary when permissions are separated properly.

Cons:

• Pricing and documentation are unclear, particularly around retention rules and storage class transitions.
• Basic next to other providers, with fewer options for detailed policy control, long-term archiving or air-gap isolation.
• Slow support response during backup and restore incidents.
• The console lacks filtering and audit tooling, and cross-Region or cross-project policy management gets cumbersome at scale.

Pricing:

Metered and billed hourly, per GiB of front-end capacity under protection plus per GiB of backup data stored, with separate rates for VMs, file systems and Cloud SQL. There is no flat per-workload price. See the Google Cloud Backup and DR pricing page, and our own Google Cloud backup pricing breakdown. Rates as of August 2026.

What users say:

“The interface is straightforward, and restoring data is quick and hassle-free, whether it’s a single file or an entire system. While Google Backup and DR is generally reliable, the initial setup can feel a bit complex, especially for people who are new to Google Cloud. The pricing can also be confusing.”

[source: G2]

Bottom line:

Reasonable inside Google Cloud, and the vault model is the main reason to pick it over rolling your own snapshot schedule.

Which cloud backup solution should you choose?

If your workloads are on AWS or Azure and the backups have to stay in your own account, choose N2W. It runs as an instance in your account, keeps every copy on your own storage bill, and prices on instance count rather than data volume.

If you still run on-premises infrastructure alongside the cloud, choose Veeam or Commvault. Both cover estates that N2W deliberately does not, and Commvault is the better fit where compliance reporting is formal and staffed.

If you do not want to run backup infrastructure at all, choose Druva, and accept that your backups live in Druva’s cloud and that if their console is down, you won’t be able to access it to restore data.

If your estate is entirely in one cloud and you have no requirement the native tool cannot meet, use AWS Backup, Azure Backup or Google Cloud Backup and DR. Add a third-party tool when you can name the limit you have hit, usually cross-cloud recovery, recovery point granularity, or the cost of long-term retention.

If you already have backup software and the problem is the storage bill, the answer is not a new platform. Point what you have at cheaper storage such as Wasabi.

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Conclusion 

Cloud backup solutions are essential for ensuring continuous data availability and resilience in the face of evolving cyber threats, system failures, or human error. By leveraging the scalability, accessibility, and automation offered by the cloud, organizations can protect critical information, simplify backup operations, and maintain compliance with industry standards.