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Clumio by Commvault
Cloud-native to the bone — serverless protection for S3, DynamoDB and RDS at petabyte scale, with copies your compromised account can’t touch and buckets that rewind.
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Clumio by Commvault (acquired October 2024) is cloud-native data protection built serverless from day one: Amazon S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, EC2/EBS and Apache Iceberg lakehouses protected at petabyte scale with virtually air-gapped copies outside your accounts, consumption-based pricing and zero backup infrastructure — plus signature moves like S3 Backtrack, which rewinds entire buckets to a point in time in hours instead of restore-job weeks. Now extending natively to Google Cloud, it's the answer for estates where agent-era backup economics simply collapse.
The Commvault platform family
This page covers Clumio — the cloud-native engine. The rest of the eight-product portfolio:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Clumio — the cloud-native engine of Commvault Cloud
- Heritage
- Cloud-born startup, acquired by Commvault October 2024
- Workloads
- S3 · DynamoDB · RDS/Aurora · EC2/EBS · Apache Iceberg
- Clouds
- AWS-native; extending natively to Google Cloud (2026)
- Architecture
- Serverless — no agents, no backup servers, no gateways
- Air gap
- Copies stored outside your accounts — compromise-isolated
- Signature
- S3 Backtrack — bucket point-in-time rewind at scale
- Scale
- Petabyte-class estates, trillions of objects
- Pricing
- Consumption-based — pay for protected data
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand cloud-native backup before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is cloud-native data protection?
Backup rebuilt for how cloud estates actually work: serverless capture against cloud APIs (no agents, no backup servers), copies isolated outside your accounts, consumption pricing, and recovery ergonomics designed for billions of objects.
Clumio is the reference implementation — S3, DynamoDB, RDS, EBS and Iceberg at petabyte scale.
Agent-era backup in the cloud vs cloud-native — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Snapshots + scripts + in-account vaults | Cloud-native protection (Clumio) |
|---|---|---|
| S3 protection | Versioning + replication + a prayer | Continuous backup with Backtrack rewind |
| Infrastructure | A backup EC2 fleet to size and patch | Serverless — nothing to run |
| Account compromise | Attacker deletes snapshots too | Air-gapped copies outside your accounts |
| DynamoDB retention | PITR's 35-day ceiling | Years, by policy |
| Multi-account sprawl | Per-account scripts and gaps | One policy plane, coverage visible |
| Bucket disaster | Weeks of restore jobs | Backtrack — hours |
| Cost model | Capacity licences vs elastic reality | Consumption-based metering |
| The lakehouse | 'Analytics data doesn't need backup' | Iceberg tables, air-gapped |
Adoption is same-day — connect accounts, set policy, and the wiki page titled "S3 backup TODO" finally closes.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Serverless Engine
Protection runs as a service against cloud APIs — no agents on instances, no backup servers to size, no gateways to patch.
Air-Gap Vault
Copies live in Clumio-managed accounts, logically air-gapped — a compromised AWS account can't reach its own backups.
S3 Fabric
Continuous protection for buckets with billions of objects — including Backtrack's bucket-wide point-in-time rewind.
Database Arm
Managed-database protection with record-level and point-in-time recovery beyond AWS's own snapshot horizons.
Lakehouse Layer
Air-gapped protection for Iceberg tables — the analytics estate that suddenly became production-critical.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Protect, recover, economise.
Clumio replaces the snapshot scripts, the in-account blast radius and the capacity-licence maths with protection built for cloud reality.
Amazon S3 at Any Scale
Buckets with billions of objects protected continuously — the estate where every agent-era tool taps out.
S3 Backtrack
The signature: rewind an entire bucket to a point in time — ransomware or bad-deploy recovery in hours, not restore-job weeks.
DynamoDB Protection
Table protection beyond PITR's 35-day ceiling — with restores that don't torch your provisioned throughput.
RDS & Aurora Recovery
Point-in-time and record-level recovery with retention AWS snapshots can't hold — the databases behind the business, properly covered.
EC2 & EBS Backup
Instances and volumes on policy with air-gapped copies — snapshots that survive the account compromise that deletes snapshots.
Apache Iceberg Lakehouses
Air-gapped table protection for the lakehouse — analytics data graduated to production; its protection just caught up.
Virtual Air Gap
Copies in Clumio-managed accounts your credentials can't touch — the compromised-account scenario, pre-answered.
Object & Record-Level Restore
One object, one record, one prefix — recovery scoped to the incident even when the bucket holds billions.
Consumption Pricing
Pay for protected data, not licensed capacity you might use — the meter that finally matches cloud economics.
Cost-Optimised Storage Classes
Backup data tiered automatically — long retention without long-retention bills.
Compliance Reporting & Analytics
Protection posture, coverage gaps and audit evidence across accounts — the multi-account sprawl finally visible in one place.
Google Cloud Extension
The Clumio engine extending natively to GCP (2026) — the second cloud gets the same serverless treatment.
Watch Clumio in action
Official demos — the setup, the Backtrack signature and the coverage analytics.
How to Configure Clumio for AWS — Setup Demo
From zero to protected AWS accounts — the serverless onboarding.
Clumio S3 Backtrack — Instant Point-in-Time Recovery
The signature move: an entire bucket rewound to before the incident.
Clumio Reporting & Analytics
Coverage, posture and audit evidence across the multi-account sprawl.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Clumio apart from the alternatives.
Built for the scale that breaks tools
Billions of objects, petabytes of S3 — the estates where agent-era backup tools (and their bills) collapse are exactly where Clumio was engineered to start.
Backtrack changes the maths
Bucket-wide point-in-time rewind means the ransomware or bad-deploy recovery is hours of orchestration, not weeks of restore jobs — RTO at object-storage scale, finally credible.
The air gap your account can't delete
Copies live outside your AWS accounts — the attacker who owns your credentials and deletes your snapshots still can't reach the backups. That scenario is the modern breach script.
Zero infrastructure, honestly
No agents, no backup EC2 fleet, no gateways — protection as pure service. The ops team's cloud-backup workload rounds to policy review.
Beyond AWS's own horizons
PITR caps at 35 days, snapshots die with the account, and cross-account copies are DIY glue — Clumio holds retention for years with none of the scripting.
Startup engine, platform parent
Cloud-native architecture with Commvault's balance sheet, roadmap and 15x-MQ pedigree behind it — the acquisition solved the 'bet on a startup' objection.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Clumio journey looks like
Cloud-estate census
Accounts, buckets, tables and databases mapped with protection gaps and current spend — TechBag runs it free against your AWS bill.
Connected and protecting
Account connections and policies — the PoC starts protecting the same day; there is nothing to deploy.
Recovery drills
Backtrack rehearsal on a real bucket, record-level DB restores, an account-compromise tabletop against the air gap.
Elastic steady state
Coverage dashboards watch the sprawl, consumption tracks the estate, and GCP joins as it lands. TechBag manages the commercials.
Trusted across regulated industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“1.2PB of S3 across forty accounts, protected in an afternoon of policy work. Our previous approach was a wiki page titled 'S3 backup TODO'.”
“Backtrack rewound a 300-million-object bucket after a bad pipeline deploy. Four hours. We'd budgeted a week of restore jobs and grief.”
“Security's favourite fact: the backups live where our credentials can't reach. The account-compromise tabletop finally has a good ending.”
“DynamoDB PITR's 35-day wall was a compliance problem. Now retention is policy, and audit exports are a button.”
“Consumption pricing tracked our actual estate — the capacity-licence maths we escaped from never matched cloud reality.”
“Iceberg table protection made our lakehouse team stop pretending snapshots were a strategy.”
“It's AWS-deep and GCP-arriving — Azure estates need the parent platform. Scope your clouds honestly.”
“Post-acquisition the roadmap accelerated — Google Cloud support landed faster than we expected from a just-acquired startup.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the cloud-native backup market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Cloud-Native Backup Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
The petabyte-scale cloud-native specialist with a platform parent — this page's subject.
Object-Scale Depth × Operational Lightness
The grid nobody publishes — depth at S3 scale vs how much infrastructure it demands.
Object-scale depth at serverless lightness — the rare top-right corner.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Clumio vs the cloud-backup field
The native default, the giants’ cloud arms and the SaaS suites — honest lanes, hubs landing this wave.
| Dimension | Clumio | AWS Backup | Veeam (AWS) | Druva | Rubrik (cloud) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & focus | Cloud-born, Commvault-backed | AWS's own service | The backup giant's AWS arm | SaaS-native suite | Security-first platform |
| S3 at billions of objects | The design centre | S3 backup exists | Snapshot-orientated | Covered | Covered |
| True air gap (outside your account) | Native | In your org | Configurable | Native | Native |
| Point-in-time bucket recovery | Backtrack | Object-by-object | Job-based | Job-based | Job-based |
| Infrastructure to run | None | None | Appliances/instances | None | Minimal |
| Beyond-AWS coverage | GCP arriving; parent covers rest | AWS only | Everything Veeam | Broad SaaS scope | Broad platform |
| Economics at PB scale | Consumption + tiering | Pay-as-you-go | Licence + infra | Per-TB SaaS | Premium |
| Best fit | PB-scale AWS/GCP estates | Light AWS needs | Veeam-standardised shops | SaaS-first lean teams | Security-led platforms |
Which cloud-protection path fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Clumio if…
- ✓S3/DynamoDB/RDS scale is breaking your current tool or budget
- ✓Account-compromise isolation (real air gap) is mandated
- ✓Zero backup infrastructure is the operating model you want
- ✓Iceberg/lakehouse data needs adult protection
Choose AWS Backup if…
- ✓Needs are light and in-account basics suffice
Choose Veeam if…
- ✓You're standardised on Veeam across the estate — hub this wave
Choose Druva if…
- ✓Broad SaaS-delivered coverage beats S3-scale depth — hub this wave
Choose Rubrik if…
- ✓Security-platform breadth is the anchor — hub this wave
What does cloud-backup drag cost you?
Drag the sliders (count protected cloud resources — buckets, tables, DBs, instances). Estimates assume ~4 engineer-hours per resource per year across snapshot scripting, restore-job babysitting, coverage audits and retention gymnastics, with ~70% removed by serverless policy and Backtrack ergonomics — illustrative and conservative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Clumio prices on consumption — pay for protected data. TechBag projects the meter against your AWS bill in one GST quote.
S3 & object estate
Best for petabyte buckets
- Consumption-based metering
- Backtrack point-in-time rewind
- Automatic cost tiering
Databases & compute
Best for the stateful layer
- DynamoDB beyond PITR ceilings
- RDS/Aurora record-level recovery
- EC2/EBS on policy
With Commvault Cloud
Best for hybrid estates
- Azure/on-prem via the parent platform
- One vendor, one commercial
- TechBag models both together
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every cloud-backup vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
PoC on your BIGGEST bucket — object counts in the hundreds of millions are where tools separate.
Rewind a production-copy bucket to yesterday and time it. This is the ergonomic moat — verify it.
Walk the account-compromise scenario: can credentials that own your org touch the backups? The answer must be no.
Map compliance retention against PITR/snapshot ceilings — the gap is the requirement.
Project the meter against estate growth — and compare with capacity-licence quotes honestly.
Connect the whole org in the PoC and read the coverage report — the gaps it finds are free findings.
Iceberg in production? Test table-level protection and recovery now, not after the first corruption.
Azure in the estate? That's the parent platform's job — scope both together via TechBag.
Questions buyers ask
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Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.