Perfect fit
What do you like best about the product?
It's so simple to use, and have all of your backup information on a single dashboard.
It also gives me peace of mind while Installed in my own AWS environment.
Allow to save big money on unused resources that were just sitting there.
What do you dislike about the product?
been working with the product for the past 2.5 years and still completely satisfied with all aspects of using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost saving initiatives, it really helped us clean the clutter and save a lot of money.
Organize our backups in a single platform with high viability and simple restore process.
excellent cloud data backup and recovery software
What do you like best about the product?
Simple user friendly , cost effective best solution in the market
What do you dislike about the product?
Need attention on technical support and bug fix
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data protection & reports helping us for audit
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very simple and user friendly
Simple efficient intuitive AWS backup solution
What do you like best about the product?
The User interface is organized so it is easy to navigate and the configuration of the software is easy to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
DR testing has not been fully flushed out. The latest release appears to solve some of those issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backup of the AWS environment with audit able backups and alerting. Reports of unprotected resources ensure that new instances are not overlooked in the backup solution.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Setup the free trial in your environment and test how quickly you can have backups configured.
Great product and great Support
What do you like best about the product?
It very easy to get the CPM server setup and doing basic backups to start protecting your AWS instances. Also like the new 3.0 user interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user guide is not always clear on how to implement a given solution leaving me to contact support for clarification
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to have a cross account for direct S3 DR vault backups is huge. Makes the process of securing and retrieving a DR backup so much easier that the previous method we had engineered using a different vendors product
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its easy to try plus support is great
N2WS is a great solution for backing up your AWS environment
What do you like best about the product?
It is the only AWS backup solution that intelligently uses AWS functionality instead of trying to graft cloud functionality onto a traditional backup software.
The new interface is clean and easy to use
What do you dislike about the product?
There have been a few problems with 3.0 that required multiple patches and upgrades but now they have it ironed out and working.
Support is only available via e-mail which makes it hard to troubleshoot the issue. The few times we have been able to get a Zoom meeting or a phone call have been much more effective.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to backup our environment as well as have a great DR system in place. It makes it a lot simpler.
We are now able to leverage different S3 tiering which has lowered costs
Best solution for Backups
What do you like best about the product?
It has a relatively Simple interface. The recovery time feature is good. Flexible backup policies and scheduling which is very helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
Ease of backup policy abstraction must be improved. Users must have access similar to IAM roles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of scheduling backups and restoring then when needed with small number of steps .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for it. It's easy to use and makes your backups an easy one click job at most if not automated.
Good for backup and recovery, annoying to ma
Works as intended for backup and recovery. Saves time for things you can do manually with the aws api.
The reason this is 4 stars instead of 5 is the way the service is provided as an AMI. It basically runs a web server and database on an ec2 instance and becomes a single point of failure like everything else. It is good for N2WS because they don't incur any infrastructure cost but it is a pain in the butt to have to keep upgrading versions by either patching or relaunching and reconfiguring instances. Changing subscription levels is also a pain. In my opinion, this service should be offered primarily as a SaaS service for all UI and state, and the ec2 instance should just be a self updating agent that can interface with the API. Even better would be to just give N2WS an IAM user and make it a pure SaaS solution. In 4 years I have had to upgrade CPM multiple times but I have only had to do an actual restore once which was to create a replica environment for testing a major upgrade.
The easiest EC2 Backup Solution I know
I am using CPM to back up all Instances in my AWS EC2 Cloud and I am very happy with it. During the years I had some needs to restore an instance or even single files and CPM did its job always as expected. For me, CPM is absolutely worth the money I spend.
Easy to setup
The software was very easy to setup and the support team were very helpful providing best practices. It has run without any problems for a year.
Probably the easiest AWS backup appliance, ever
Easy to setup, restore processes are easy. Support is fast and efficient. I would highly recommend the free version for anyone looking to have backups in AWS.
One CON: The freezer or backup archive does not have a schedule. I would prefer this is automated and not a manual process.
