Sold by: N2W Software
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N2W offers automated, efficient, and secure backup and DR. Prepare for any data loss scenario, archive data for compliance, and optimize AWS spend. Ensure that critical data is protected by orchestrating recovery scenarios and performing 1-click DR - all from a single user interface.
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Overview
N2W was the pioneer in EC2 backup since 2012, has continued to lead cloud-native backup and disaster recovery (DR) and to help organizations on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud:
- Protect cloud workloads from any data loss with 30-second restore
- Radically simplifies backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes of native AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3
- Achieve 92% cost reduction with automated and streamlined cold-tier storage (data lifecycle management)
- Meet compliance requirements turnkey with automated DR drills across AWS, Azure, and Wasabi
- Ransomware protection backup with immutability, cross-account disaster recovery, cross-cloud disaster recovery and more N2W is deployed directly within your own cloud account using an IaaS model rather than a SaaS architecture, giving you greater control over your data and infrastructure while minimizing third-party security exposure. Primary Use Cases
- Policy-based Backup and Recovery for Amazon EC2, RDS, S3, EKS (Kubernetes), EFS, FSx (all types), VPC, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, SAP HANA and more.
- Easy, one-click backup and immediate restore
- Drastically simplify your complex backup processes with policy-based automation and support for flexible backup scheduling (every five minutes without affecting production)
- Go beyond data protection. Backup and restore of all metadata, VPC configurations, Load Balancers, Transit Gateway and other network settings
- Disaster Recovery Across Regions and Accounts: Recover single files or folders, volumes, instances or entire environments across:
- AWS regions and accounts
- Azure regions and subscriptions
- Google Cloud regions
- Across AWS and Azure clouds
- Compliance Ready
- Support for AWS GovCloud and AWS European Sovereign Cloud - isolated regions and infrastructure that are physically and logically separated from standard commercial AWS cloud.
- HIPAA compliance backup with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud for healthcare organizations
- NIST, DORA, NIS2, FedRAMP, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS
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Ransomware Protection with Immutable Backups: Protect critical workloads using immutable backups that cannot be altered or deleted. Includes off-site isolation using AWS and Azure cross-cloud disaster as well as copy to Wasabi S3 (with Compliance Lock)
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Cost Optimization for Backup Storage Reduce storage costs by up to 92% using:
- Smart lifecycle policies
- Automated tiering to low-cost storage (e.g., Wasabi, AWS S3 Glacier, Azure Blob)
- Multi-Cloud Backup Management Manage AWS, Azure and Google Cloud backups from a single dashboard with centralized visibility and control. Key Capabilities Automated Backup & Recovery
- Policy-based automation across workloads
- One-click restore for fast recovery
- Centralized management dashboard Disaster Recovery Automation
- Cross-region, cross-account and cross-cloud VM and disk recovery
- Full environment recovery (including network configurations, not just individual resources)
- Automated DR drills with reporting Smart Data Lifecycle Management
- Multiple retention schedules per policy
- Automated archival to lower-cost storage tiers
- Optimized storage utilization Multi-Tenant & Scalable Architecture
- Supports single accounts to large enterprises
- Multi-tenant environments supported
- Scales to thousands of workloads
- Role-based access and multi-tenant controls Immutable & Air-Gapped Backups
- Built-in ransomware protection
- Automated off-site replication to isolated storage
- Compliance-ready backup architecture
Supported Environments Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- EC2 / EBS
- RDS (all engines)
- Aurora (including Serverless)
- Redshift
- EFS, FSx
- S3, Glacier (all tiers)
- VPC
- EKS (Kubernetes)
- DynamoDB, DocumentDB
- KMS
- SAP HANA Microsoft Azure
- Virtual Machines
- Disks
- Databases Google Cloud
- Virtual Machines
- Disks
What Makes N2W Different
- Runs entirely in your own cloud account (no third-party hosting)
- Combines backup, DR, cross-cloud backup and restore, and archiving in one platform
- Supports both AWS, Azure and Google Cloud from a single interface
- Significantly reduces long-term retention costs with automated archiving to low-cost cloud storage tiers
- Built-in ransomware protection with immutable and off-site backups
- Enables not just VM recovery, but also their metadata
- Automated Multicloud full-environment DR drills that validate recoverability without impacting production environments
Deployment & Requirements
- Deployment: Installed directly in your AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account
- Setup time: Typically under 30 minutes
- No external infrastructure required
- Works with existing cloud storage and services
Highlights
- Gain peace of mind with automated backup policies and 1-click cross-region and cross-account disaster recovery (DR) to recover a single file, a full instance, or your entire environment in less than 30 seconds
- Enhance your Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) through automated life cycling of Amazon EBS snapshots to any Amazon S3 storage tier (including Glacier Instant Retrieval) or Azure Blob protected with immutability for long-term retention and cost savings
- Save up to 92% per month in storage costs and maintain complete control of your AWS and Azure accounts while continuing to meet all of your governance, risk, and compliance needs
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Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Connect to the N2W server using SSH with user name: cpmuser. The only way to authenticate cpmuser is by using the private key from the key pair you used when you launched the N2W server instance.
See more detailed instructions on our quick start guide: https://n2ws.com/documentation/cpm-quick-start-guide
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Customer reviews
reviewer2887899
Automated backups have strengthened our AWS disaster recovery and improved customer service continuity
Reviewed on Aug 12, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
We used N2W primarily as part of our wider disaster recovery (DR) strategy in the business as a way to protect assets in AWS and to automatically schedule utilization of resources.
How has it helped my organization?
N2W greatly improved our resilience to potential loss of services and allowed us to strengthen our service offering for our customers.
What is most valuable?
The biggest feature set is the integration with AWS and the ability to easily point and click backup policies both in-region, cross region, as well as cross account. It also allows us to test the posture of the policies by performing restore tests to establish recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO).
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in the S3 storage backup for S3-backed services such as AWS Transfer Family.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for five years.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We relied solely on AWS in-region snapshots and disaster recovery, which we felt left us exposed before implementing N2W.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing for N2W is a fixed cost based on the edition you want to use. All I would suggest is keeping an eye on billing in AWS, as N2W leverages AWS services such as the N2W instance hosting and storage. This activity can be managed by the policies and AWS to ensure that the costs stay within budget.
What other advice do I have?
Whenever we had technical issues, the support team was very responsive and great to assist and would usually always resolve the issue.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
reviewer2837103
Automated backups and scheduling have protected all resources and saved thousands in monthly costs
Reviewed on May 08, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
We have been using N2W Backup & Recovery for six years to manage snapshots, AMIs, and for scheduled resource control.
How has it helped my organization?
I absolutely love this software and the peace of mind it brings to me and my organization. Having the ability to automatically add resources to different backup policies with some simple tagging ensures that none of our infrastructure is left unprotected. We can also use those tags to control resources by shutting them off when not in use.
This has enabled our organization to save thousands of dollars each month by simply having policies in place to shut down development environments during the evenings and weekends when they are not in use. We have never had a restore fail us, whether an object level restore, restoring a volume from snapshot, or restoring an entire server from an AMI. N2W keeps all tags, IAM roles, Security Groups, etc., intact when restoring from an AMI, making restores quick and painless.
This is a necessity when I have several test and development environments that need to be rolled back to a previous version or configuration.
What is most valuable?
Tag-based backup with guardrails and a tagging policy means that newly created infrastructure is automatically added to the correct backup policy, and I never have to worry about unprotected resources. The resource control is also invaluable to us, as it allows me to shut down infrastructure when it is not needed, saving thousands in costs each month.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for six years.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The N2W pricing model is based on how many resources you protect. The bulk of your costs will come through as infrastructure costs, however, such as snapshots, AMIs, storage, etc.
DanielUlianitsky
Automated backups have improved disaster recovery and provide reliable cross-region protection
Reviewed on Apr 23, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case is automated backup and disaster recovery for AWS workloads across multiple accounts and regions.
We use N2WS to protect EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and critical application data, with a strong focus on cross-region backups for disaster recovery scenarios.
How has it helped my organization?
N2WS has significantly improved our backup reliability and reduced administrative overhead.
Automated policies ensure consistent backups without manual intervention, and recovery processes are fast and predictable.
It has strengthened our disaster recovery posture, giving us confidence that we can quickly restore services in case of failure or regional outages.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features for us are cross-region and cross-account backup, flexible scheduling and retention policies, and fast recovery capabilities.
The ability to orchestrate backups across multiple AWS accounts from a single interface is particularly useful.
Lifecycle management and cost optimization features also help reduce storage costs while maintaining compliance.
What needs improvement?
While the platform is strong overall, the user interface could be further modernized and made more intuitive in certain areas, especially when navigating complex environments.
Reporting and analytics could also be enhanced to provide more detailed insights and easier customization.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used N2WS for 8 years.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Improved reporting dashboards with more granular filtering, better alerting and notification customization, and deeper integration with third-party monitoring tools would be valuable.
Enhanced automation and API capabilities for complex workflows would also be a welcome addition.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing is reasonable considering the features provided, especially for organizations heavily invested in AWS.
The cost savings from automation and lifecycle management can offset the licensing cost.
It is important to properly plan backup policies to optimize storage usage and avoid unnecessary expenses.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated AWS-native solutions and other third-party backup tools.
Ultimately, N2WS stood out due to its ease of use, strong feature set focused on AWS, and cost-effectiveness compared to more complex enterprise solutions.
What other advice do I have?
N2WS is a mature and reliable solution that delivers strong value for AWS backup and disaster recovery.
It is especially well-suited for organizations managing multi-account environments.
My advice would be to invest time in properly designing backup policies from the start to fully leverage its capabilities and maximize cost efficiency.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
reviewer2817258
Reliable backup management has strengthened data protection and supports fast disaster recovery
Reviewed on Apr 21, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
The solution is used for the backup of EC2 instances in AWS.
How has it helped my organization?
N2WS has significantly improved our organization’s data protection and disaster recovery capabilities.
What is most valuable?
Its user-friendly interface and flexible scheduling have streamlined our backup management.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used the solution for 5 months.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Veeam.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The setup cost is just right and as per market standards.
reviewer2803089
Backup strategy has unified cloud platforms and provides flexible, cost-effective protection
Reviewed on Feb 16, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution for backup workloads across platforms.
How has it helped my organization?
We have standardized our backup solutions across Azure and AWS cloud providers.
What is most valuable?
The combination of disaster recovery, backups, and scheduling helps us be flexible with our approach to backup, start and stop times while being cost-effective.
What needs improvement?
The solution could benefit from a friendlier UI.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used the solution for 4 years.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The license is based on the account or subscription.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I considered Veeam as an alternate solution.
What other advice do I have?
There is no additional advice I can provide.