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Druva Cloud Workloads
Cloud-born protection for cloud-born apps — EC2, RDS and Azure isolated outside your accounts, restorable across clouds and even back to on-prem, from a vendor born on AWS in 2008.
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Druva Cloud Workloads protects the cloud from the cloud: Amazon EC2, EBS, RDS and S3, plus Azure VMs and SQL, backed up into the Data Security Cloud with cross-account, cross-region and cross-cloud recovery — the isolation and retention native snapshots can't offer, from a vendor born on AWS in 2008 (the CloudRanger acquisition sharpened the AWS lineage). Snapshots die with the account, price brutally at retention and restore only where they live; Druva's copies land air-gapped outside your accounts, priced on deduplicated consumption, restorable anywhere — including back on-prem. Cloud-native protection that understands the cloud isn't a datacentre.
The Druva platform family
This page covers Cloud Workloads. The rest of the five-family platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Cloud Workloads — AWS & Azure native protection
- Vendor
- Druva (Pune-born 2008, AWS-native · $2B+ unicorn)
- AWS scope
- EC2 · EBS · RDS · S3 — the compute and data staples
- Azure scope
- Azure VMs and SQL
- Isolation
- Copies outside your accounts — the blast-radius exit
- Recovery
- Cross-account, cross-region AND cross-cloud
- Lineage
- AWS-native since 2008; CloudRanger acquisition (2019)
- Economics
- Deduplicated consumption — not snapshot-priced retention
- Licensing
- Credits — consumption per protected TB
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand cloud 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 backup?
Protection built for how cloud works: agentless API orchestration, copies isolated outside your accounts, deduplicated consumption pricing, and recovery that crosses accounts, regions and clouds.
Druva adds the platform dividend: cloud workloads in the same estate as your data centre, SaaS and endpoints.
Snapshot faith vs cloud-native protection — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Native snapshots + per-cloud silos | Out-of-account SaaS (Druva) |
|---|---|---|
| The habit | Native snapshots per account | Managed copies, cross-everything |
| Account compromise | Snapshots deleted with production | Copies outside the account |
| Retention cost | Snapshot pricing × years = pain | Deduplicated consumption |
| Restore scope | Same account, same region | Cross-cloud, even on-prem |
| In-account footprint | Backup instances you run | None — agentless orchestration |
| Multi-cloud | Per-cloud silos | AWS + Azure, one platform |
| Estate unification | Cloud tools separate from DC | One Data Security Cloud |
| Portability | Trapped in the cloud it's in | Restore anywhere, on-prem included |
Adoption is same-day API connections — and the first out-of-account restore proves the isolation.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Cloud Connectors
Native API orchestration of snapshots and data movement — no backup instances to run in your accounts.
Out-of-Account Store
Copies land in Druva's environment, outside your AWS/Azure accounts — a compromised account can't reach its own history.
Dedupe Economics
Deduplicated copies on managed storage — retention priced sanely against snapshot-pricing horror.
Recovery Fabric
Cross-account, cross-region and cross-cloud — plus the escape hatch back to on-prem.
Watch Layer
The same staffed SOC and detection watching the cloud estate as everything else.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Protect, recover, economise.
Druva turns snapshot habits into real backup — isolated, portable, deduplicated, and unified with the rest of the estate.
EC2 & EBS Protection
Compute and block storage on policy — snapshot-orchestrated for speed, deduplicated-stored for economics.
Managed Database Backup
RDS protected beyond native snapshot horizons — retention by policy, restores that respect the platform.
S3 Object Protection
Buckets protected with versioning-beyond-versioning — real backup for the object estate (petabyte scale is a specialist call).
Azure VMs & SQL
The Azure half — VMs and SQL under the same policy plane and air gap as AWS.
Nothing in Your Accounts
API orchestration only — no backup instances consuming compute or expanding the attack surface.
Out-of-Account Copies
Backups outside your accounts — the compromised credential reaches nothing.
Cross-Account Recovery
Restore into a clean account after compromise — the cloud cleanroom, built in.
Cross-Region Recovery
Region failure? The workload restores elsewhere — DR without a standing second region.
Cross-Cloud & On-Prem
AWS to Azure, or cloud back to on-prem — the portability native tools structurally can't offer.
File & Record Restore
Single files, objects or records — recovery scoped to the incident.
Deduplicated Economics
Retention priced on deduplicated consumption, not snapshot rates — years without the horror bill.
One Platform With Everything
Cloud joins DC, SaaS and endpoints — one console, one air gap, one MDDR SOC, one audit.
Watch the cloud protection
The AWS demo, the cloud-native argument and the CloudRanger heritage.
5-Minute Demo: Druva Data Protection for AWS Workloads
AWS workloads protected end to end, quickly.
Simplify Data Protection for AWS Workloads with Druva
The cloud-native protection argument.
Druva CloudRanger — View Backup & Restore
The CloudRanger lineage — the AWS-native heritage in action.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Druva Cloud apart from the alternatives.
Born on AWS, not ported to it
Druva has run on AWS since 2008 — cloud-native isn't a retrofit here, it's the origin. The CloudRanger acquisition deepened the AWS-orchestration muscle; the platform understands the cloud isn't a datacentre with a different logo.
The out-of-account exit
Snapshots share the account's fate — a compromised credential deletes production AND its history. Druva's copies live outside your accounts entirely; the delete-the-backups playbook finds nothing.
Retention without snapshot horror
EBS snapshot pricing at compliance retention is a budget nightmare; deduplicated consumption on managed storage is the adult alternative — years of history at a fraction of snapshot cost.
Cross-cloud, even back to earth
Recover an AWS workload into Azure, or an EC2 instance back on-prem — the portability native tools can't offer and the leverage every cloud negotiation quietly wants.
One estate with the data centre
Cloud workloads join the same Data Security Cloud as your VMware, SaaS and endpoints — one console, one air gap, one MDDR SOC, one audit story across every venue.
Nothing to run in your accounts
API-orchestrated and agentless — no backup instances consuming your compute budget or expanding your attack surface. The protection lives in Druva's cloud, not yours.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Druva Cloud journey looks like
Cloud census
Accounts, workloads, snapshot spend and isolation posture against your real cloud bill — TechBag runs it free.
Connected
API connections and policies — protection starts the same day, nothing deployed in your accounts.
Recovery drills
Cross-account restore, an out-of-account isolation tabletop and — if strategic — an on-prem restore of a cloud workload.
Unified steady state
Cloud workloads report into the estate console, snapshot bill deflates, one SOC watches everything. TechBag reviews consumption.
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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“Account compromise tabletop: our snapshots were in the same account the attacker owned. Druva's copies weren't. That distinction rewrote our cloud DR plan.”
“EBS snapshot retention at compliance horizons was eating our margin. Deduplicated consumption cut the line item by more than half.”
“One console for EC2, on-prem VMware and our M365 — the auditor asked one set of questions across three venues.”
“We restored an EC2 workload on-prem during a repatriation exercise. The portability is real, and it's now a slide in every cloud renewal.”
“Agentless meant nothing to deploy in our accounts — no backup instances, no extra attack surface. Security signed off fast.”
“The AWS lineage shows — the orchestration understands S3 and RDS quirks a ported tool wouldn't. CloudRanger DNA, clearly.”
“Object-storage scale at true petabytes isn't the centre here — that's a specialist conversation. Our EC2/RDS/S3 mainstream fits perfectly.”
“Azure coverage is solid for VMs/SQL; AWS is the deeper lane given the heritage. Map your clouds against the matrix.”
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 backup market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Cloud-Backup Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
AWS-native, out-of-account, unified with the estate — this page's subject.
Isolation & Portability × Estate Unification
The grid nobody publishes — how safe and portable the copies are vs whether they join one estate.
Mainstream cloud depth at unified-platform lightness — the estate 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.
Druva vs the cloud-backup field
Native walls, the platform editions and the S3 specialist — honest lanes; Clumio's hub is live for the object-scale case.
| Dimension | Druva | Native (AWS/Azure Backup) | Veeam Cloud | Commvault Clumio | Rubrik cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & model | AWS-native since 2008 | Each cloud's own service | Editions of the #1 platform | Serverless S3 specialist | Security platform's flank |
| Out-of-account isolation | By default | In your org | Cross-account by policy | Structural | Native |
| Cross-cloud / on-prem restore | Anywhere incl. on-prem | In-cloud only | Portable format | In-ecosystem | Cross-region |
| In-account footprint | None (agentless) | None | Appliances/instances | None (serverless) | Minimal |
| Object-scale (petabyte S3) | S3 covered | S3 backup exists | VM/DB-centric | The specialist | Growing |
| Estate unification | One Druva platform | Per-cloud silos | The Veeam estate | The Commvault estate | The Rubrik estate |
| Best fit | Cloud+DC estates wanting unification | Single-cloud light needs | Veeam-standardised shops | Petabyte-S3 estates | Security-platform buyers |
Which cloud-backup path fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Druva if…
- ✓Cloud workloads should join one estate with DC/SaaS/endpoints
- ✓Out-of-account isolation answers your compromise tabletop
- ✓Cross-cloud / on-prem restore portability has value
- ✓Agentless (nothing in your accounts) is a security requirement
Choose native tools if…
- ✓One cloud, light needs, no audit pressure
Choose Veeam Cloud if…
- ✓You're Veeam-standardised across the estate — hub live
Choose Clumio if…
- ✓Petabyte S3/DynamoDB is the actual problem — hub live
Choose Rubrik if…
- ✓Security-platform breadth anchors the buy — hub this wave
What does snapshot sprawl cost you?
Drag the sliders (count cloud workloads — VMs, DBs). Estimates assume ~3 hours per workload per year across snapshot scripting, per-cloud silo admin and retention-bill firefighting, with ~65% removed by policy unification and dedupe — the snapshot-bill deflation itself typically dwarfs the labour. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Druva prices in credits on deduplicated data. TechBag projects it against your snapshot bill in one GST quote.
AWS or Azure
Best for one cloud
- EC2/EBS/RDS/S3 or Azure VM/SQL
- Out-of-account isolation
- Consumption economics
Multi-cloud
Best for hybrid cloud
- AWS + Azure, one platform
- Cross-cloud recovery
- One console, one SOC
+ The full estate
Best for unification
- Cloud beside DC/SaaS/endpoints
- One air gap, one audit story
- TechBag models the bundle
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.
Walk the account-compromise scenario: can credentials that own your account touch the backups? With Druva, no.
Pull current snapshot line items at your real retention — that number funds this evaluation.
If portability matters, restore an AWS workload to Azure or on-prem in the PoC — the escape hatch, proven.
Confirm nothing deploys in your accounts — the security-review advantage is real.
Map YOUR cloud services against the matrix — AWS is the deeper lane; petabyte S3 is a specialist call.
Have DC/SaaS/endpoints on Druva? The cloud fits the same console and SOC — quote them together.
Project deduplicated credits against estate growth vs snapshot pricing honestly.
Confirm the India-region option in writing if regulated.
Questions buyers ask
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Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.