Amazon Elastic Disaster Recovery vs MSP360 Backup

Amazon Elastic Disaster Recovery replicates on-premises and cloud-based applications to AWS for recovery with reduced downtime and data loss. It can launch recovery instances from the latest server state or a selected earlier point in time, support non-disruptive recovery drills and fail recovered applications back to their source environment. Sources include physical servers, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, other cloud providers and EC2 instances recovering to another Availability Zone or Region. Supported Windows and Linux workloads include Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server databases and SAP. The service can replicate AWS network settings such as subnets, security groups, route tables, internet gateways and network ACLs. Post-launch actions can run Systems Manager commands or automations. The console shows servers, events and metrics. Pricing is $0.03 a month, billed hourly per actively replicating source server. There is no free plan.

MSP360 Backup is a freemium backup product for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with options for personal workstations, servers, and different workloads. It supports computer and server backup, with file-based and image-based backup options. Listed capabilities include incremental images, image encryption, cloud image destinations, bare-metal restore, bootable recovery media, and ransomware protection. The free plan covers personal workstation backup and includes forum-based support. Pro (macOS/Linux) provides locally managed backup for $19.99 a year. Desktop costs $29.99 a year for Windows desktop backup, while Server costs $109.99 a year for Windows Server backup and SQL costs $124.99 a year for SQL Server backup. Those three prices exclude VAT. Ultimate costs $179.99 a year and includes file, image, SQL Server, and Exchange backup, plus an unlimited cloud storage allowance. MSP360 was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.