Compare managed backup services across AWS Backup, Azure Backup, GCP Backup and DR, and OCI.
Output will appear here...The comparison table is a static, hand-maintained dataset of feature rows grouped by category (overview, coverage, management, availability, security, pricing) with free-text search across all fields; it's a reference snapshot, not a live specs feed, verify current supported-resource lists and immutability feature availability directly with the provider before finalizing a backup architecture, especially for compliance-driven requirements.
A comparison of centrally-managed backup services across AWS Backup, Azure Backup, Google Cloud Backup and DR, and OCI's Backup Service / Oracle Database Backup, spanning supported resource types, cross-region/cross-account replication, retention/immutability features, and pricing model. Immutability is the detail worth checking closely: GCP's backup lock and AWS's compliance-mode retention lock both offer genuinely enforced immutable backups (can't be deleted even by an account admin until the lock expires), which matters specifically for ransomware-resilience requirements where a compromised admin credential shouldn't be able to also destroy the backups meant to recover from that compromise.
Retention lock / backup lock features are the single highest-value setting for ransomware resilience specifically, but they're opt-in on every provider, verify they're actually enabled for your critical backup vaults rather than assuming basic backup configuration already includes immutability.
Cross-account/cross-tenancy backup access is what actually protects against a fully-compromised resource-owning account, a backup strategy where the same compromised credentials that could delete production data can also delete the backups defeats much of the point, architect backup access with a separate, more tightly controlled principal.
Restore cost (per-GB restored, not just per-GB stored) is frequently underweighted in backup cost planning, a disaster-recovery testing practice that does regular full restores can accumulate meaningful restore charges that a stored-cost-only budget doesn't anticipate.
No, AWS Backup supports a specific, documented list of resource types (EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx, S3, Aurora, DocumentDB, Neptune, and others), it's broad but not universal, always confirm your specific resource type is on the current supported list before assuming central backup coverage, rather than discovering a gap during a recovery attempt.
It prevents deletion of a backup, even by an account or subscription administrator, until the lock's configured duration expires, this is specifically designed to defend against a scenario where an attacker (or malicious insider) with admin credentials tries to delete backups as part of a ransomware attack. Without a lock, an admin-level credential compromise can delete both production data and its backups; with a properly configured lock, the backups survive that scenario.
It needs explicit configuration on all four providers, cross-region copy rules (AWS), GRS vault configuration (Azure), replication settings on a backup vault (GCP), or Object Storage replication (OCI) all require deliberate setup, none of the four cross-region-replicate backups by default without you configuring it, which is worth checking if a disaster-recovery plan assumes regional backup redundancy already exists.
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