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7 Best Third-Party DynamoDB Backup Solutions in 2026 (vs AWS Backup)
28 Oct 2026
"Is AWS Backup enough for DynamoDB?" For a lot of tables, yes. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) gives you per-second restore points for up to 35 days, and AWS Backup layers schedules, long retention, and cross-account copies on top with nothing to install.
Where it stops is the restore. Every native path writes the entire table into a brand-new table, so when a bad deploy mangles a few thousand items in a table that keeps taking orders, you get the whole dataset back and a long afternoon of reconciling.
That gap, plus the 35-day ceiling, is the job third-party DynamoDB backup solutions get paid to do.
The quick answer:
If you need more than AWS Backup, Eon is the best third-party DynamoDB backup solution for cloud-first teams because it restores only the records a bad write touched. It's cloud-native data protection for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments, with history past 35 days.
Commvault's Clumio is the closest AWS-centric rival, with in-place rollback at the partition level, and Rubrik suits teams already running its security-led cyber recovery stack.
HYCU gives app teams self-service restores, N2W turns native backups into testable runbooks, and Druva and Veeam bring DynamoDB into consoles you may already own. AWS Backup and PITR stay underneath all of them.
| Tool | Adds over AWS Backup | Item-level restore | Pricing (as of Oct 2026) |
| Eon | Record restores, Global Search, long incremental history | Yes, into the same or another table | Usage-based, per GB per month |
| Commvault (Clumio) | Backtrack rollback, 15-minute incrementals | Yes, by key and attribute filters | $0.15/GiB-month + $0.02 per 1M items |
| Rubrik | Default immutability, cross-account recovery workflows | Confirm in a proof of concept | Contact sales |
| HYCU | Self-service restores, your choice of storage target | Listed on HYCU's DynamoDB page | Quote-based |
| N2W | Recovery Scenarios, tags and TTL restored | Whole table | Standard plan $249/month |
| Druva | Tag-based policies in a SaaS console | Whole table | Per TB-month, through sales |
| Veeam | DynamoDB inside Backup & Replication | Whole table | Per workload, through sales |
AWS Backup vs third-party DynamoDB backup: what's the difference?
AWS Backup is where I'd start every DynamoDB estate, and AWS designs its advanced DynamoDB backups to run alongside PITR. PITR gives you a per-second restore window you can set anywhere from 1 to 35 days, while AWS Backup adds schedules, retention from a day to 100 years, and a cold tier.
Its advanced DynamoDB features (enabled by default if your account first used AWS Backup after November 2021) bring copies to other Regions and accounts, plus logically air-gapped vaults. Those vaults can be shared through AWS RAM, even with accounts in other organizations.
In US East (N. Virginia) pricing as of October 2026, PITR costs $0.20 per GB-month and is priced on table size, so a shorter window won't shrink the bill. AWS Backup storage runs $0.10 warm and $0.03 cold (with a 90-day minimum), and restores cost $0.15 per GB.
The differences show up on the way back. Every native restore brings back the whole table as a new table, so IAM policies, alarms, streams, TTL, and auto scaling get rebuilt by hand.
Copies are full table backups every time, which adds up once retention stretches into years. Third-party tools shrink the restore unit, keep history incrementally, or write back into the original table.
None of them asks you to switch AWS Backup off.
1. Eon: cloud-native data protection for cloud-first AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments
The platform delivers cloud data protection and recovery, and on DynamoDB that comes down to the thing I care about most: the restore unit can be as small as the damage. After an initial full scan, it picks up changes from DynamoDB Streams as often as every 15 minutes.
Backups sit in an immutable, logically air-gapped vault with time-bound access, so a stolen production key doesn't reach them. Setup is a single read-only IAM role with no agents, appliances, or clusters, built by the team behind CloudEndure.
Its Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) discovers new tables as the environment changes and applies policy without anyone remembering to tag them.
Choose it for: Cloud-first teams with large, busy tables, where the usual incident is a bad deploy touching a few thousand items while customers keep writing to everything else.
What it adds over AWS Backup: Global Search finds the affected records across backups in seconds, and you restore only those records, back into the original table or out to a different table, Region, or account. Later good writes stay put.
Backups land in Apache Iceberg and Parquet, so Athena or Snowflake can read last quarter's data in place with zero ETL. History runs as long as your policy says, and ransomware detection (add-on) is available, with database detection in early access.
SoFi, the fintech and digital bank, took recovery from a day to minutes across five AWS regions once discovery and policy ran automatically across all of them.
Retention changes that used to take hours or days now apply in seconds. As one SoFi team member put it, "We had to update a retention policy for a new student-loan servicing requirement. By the time I hung up, it was done."
What it costs: Usage-based, billed per GB per month on protected storage, with no tier ladder and flexible spending commitments. You won't see retrieval, restore, or egress fees, and global deduplication in the vault is how it reaches up to 50% lower cost.
Watch for: Because recovery points land at most every 15 minutes, a same-morning mistake that needs per-second precision still goes through PITR, typically kept on a window of about a week. There's no public list price, and the reference list is shorter than the incumbents can show.
2. Commvault (Clumio): partition-level rollback for AWS-centric DynamoDB estates
Clumio, which Commvault acquired in 2024, is Commvault's AWS-native line. It backs tables up incrementally every 15 minutes into its SecureVault and supports continuous backup with point-in-time restores.
Choose it for: AWS-heavy teams that want a managed service with published per-GiB rates and a rollback button for a live table.
What it adds over AWS Backup: Backtrack rewinds a live table in place at the partition level, so recovery skips the cutover to a renamed copy. Record restores filter by key and attributes, preview the matches, and write in place, to another table, or to a CSV file.
PITR record restores use those filters too, at any second within retention, and every restore type except Backtrack can target another account or Region (Backtrack only ever writes to the source table). Commvault Cloud shops also get a separate DynamoDB agent with table-level restores.
What it costs: As of October 2026, Clumio charges $0.15 per GiB-month for DynamoDB backups, plus $0.02 for every million items processed, per its pricing page. Restoring costs $0.20 per GiB with data transfer out billed on top, and retention has a 3-day minimum.
Watch for: A restore-heavy month moves the bill, because every restored GiB and every byte out is metered. Clumio's coverage spans AWS and Google Cloud workloads, so an estate with Azure in the mix will need a second console for that side.
3. Rubrik: DynamoDB inside a security-led cyber recovery program
Rubrik calls itself "the Security and AI Operations Company," and Rubrik Security Cloud brings DynamoDB under the policies it applies to data center, cloud, and SaaS workloads. Backups are incremental with immutability on by default, and recovery workflows span Regions and accounts.
Choose it for: Security teams that already run Rubrik for threat hunting and cyber recovery and want DynamoDB in the same reports, retention locks, and quorum approvals.
What it adds over AWS Backup: You get incremental capture after the first backup, default immutability, and a choice of where the data lives. Customer-hosted keeps compute and storage in your own AWS accounts, while Rubrik Managed Cloud Protection has Rubrik host the infrastructure.
For AI-era mistakes, Agent Rewind is built to undo what an agent changed across files, databases, configurations, or repositories.
Rubrik's threat hunting (file patterns, hashes, and YARA rules) is strong on VMs and file shares, although file-based scanning reads storage files, and a managed database like DynamoDB never exposes its contents as files to scan.
What it costs: As of October 2026, every Rubrik edition (Foundation, Business, and Enterprise) is priced through sales, and Enterprise Edition is sold as a 3-year subscription.
Watch for: Rubrik Managed moves data outside your AWS organization by design, which Rubrik says won't suit a policy that keeps backups inside your own account boundary. Customer-hosted puts networking and IAM on you, so ask to see a restore on your own tables in the proof of concept.
4. HYCU: self-service DynamoDB restores for Nutanix shops and app-heavy teams
HYCU's home turf is Nutanix, where its interface is built to feel like an extension of Nutanix Prism, and R-Cloud stretches that into SaaS apps and cloud databases. DynamoDB sits next to Amazon RDS, Aurora, and BigQuery, protected by automated snapshot policies and immutable copies.
Choose it for: Organizations where dozens of application teams own their own tables and should be able to restore them without filing a ticket.
What it adds over AWS Backup: App owners get one-click restores behind role-based access control, and HYCU's DynamoDB page lists item-level recovery and unlimited retention. Copies can live on the target you choose, from Amazon S3 to Azure, Google Cloud, or other S3-compatible storage.
Every backup and restore is logged and can trigger notifications, so the platform team stops being the company's restore queue.
What it costs: As of October 2026, DynamoDB falls under HYCU's quote-only database category, while its SaaS suites carry public per-user rates, such as $2.25 per user per month for Microsoft 365.
Watch for: Self-managed R-Cloud runs on a HYCU backup controller you deploy (HYCU recommends 8 vCPU cores and 8 GiB of memory on AWS). HYCU states SOC 2 Type I, so check that against your audit requirements, and map your cross-account layout during the trial.
5. N2W (formerly N2WS): testable recovery runbooks for native DynamoDB backups
N2W Backup & Recovery is a Linux virtual appliance you deploy yourself (the N2W Server), and its policies automate native DynamoDB table backups. Its cross-Region and cross-account DR copies run through AWS Backup's advanced DynamoDB features, so they follow AWS's full-backup model.
Choose it for: AWS teams that want native backups on a schedule, organized by tags, and rehearsed before anything breaks, and that are comfortable with whole-table recovery.
What it adds over AWS Backup: Recovery Scenarios let you script which tables and resources return first, then test that plan before an incident. Restored tables also keep their tags and TTL settings, which a plain native restore makes you set again.
The console also handles EC2, RDS, and VMs on Azure and Google Cloud. Recovery itself follows the native pattern: whole tables, in the backup's Region, under a new name if the original still exists.
What it costs: As of October 2026, the Standard plan is $249 per month and covers 20 instances and 3 accounts, plus 2 TB of unattached storage, with a discount for paying annually. Higher tiers (Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+) go through sales.
Watch for: The N2W Server is yours to run and patch, and N2W suggests capping each policy at 10 DynamoDB tables. On a large estate that turns into a lot of policies (forty tables means four of them, and somebody owns the spreadsheet).
6. Druva: tag-driven DynamoDB snapshots from a SaaS console
Druva runs as fully managed SaaS ("No infrastructure or maintenance needed," in its words), and its AWS snapshot orchestration still runs under the CloudRanger name. For DynamoDB, you add a tag to a backup policy, and CloudRanger finds every matching table and applies the schedule and retention.
Choose it for: Teams already using Druva for endpoints and SaaS apps that want DynamoDB on a schedule with nothing to install or patch.
What it adds over AWS Backup: You get a SaaS console with tag-based policies and on-demand table backups. Per Druva's December 2023 help articles, restores return a table under a new name, to whichever Region you pick, using the right KMS keys for encrypted sources.
Druva's July-to-September 2026 product update added unified policies for EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, and Redshift, so DynamoDB shares one policy model with the rest of an AWS application.
What it costs: As of October 2026, Druva sells Public Cloud plans (Business, Enterprise, and Elite) per TB per month after deduplication, paid through prepaid credits, with quotes from sales.
Watch for: A Druva help article dated September 2026 says backup operations are suspended once credit utilization reaches 110%. Pickup works through tags, which means a new table without the tag waits until someone adds it.
7. Veeam: DynamoDB in the console your VM team already runs
Veeam's home ground is VM and hypervisor estates (version 13.1 brought it to 14 hypervisors). In Backup & Replication 13, the Veeam Plug-in for AWS adds DynamoDB, capturing the whole table at a point in time and storing it in a backup vault in the Region it came from.
Choose it for: Shops already running Veeam for their VMs that want DynamoDB under the same console, scheduling, and retention rules.
What it adds over AWS Backup: Copies can go to other Regions in the same account, and the restore wizard can switch the table class, capacity mode, or encryption as part of a restore to a new location. Each restore also records a reason, which builds a tidy audit trail.
A restore returns one or more whole tables, either to the original location or a new one, inside the AWS account they came from.
What it costs: As of October 2026, Veeam Data Platform licenses are metered per workload, and Veeam quotes its AWS protection through sales, with service, immutable storage, and support bundled into one all-inclusive price.
Watch for: The Plug-in for AWS runs Veeam components in your environment, including a backup server, backup appliances, repositories, and temporary worker instances. Cross-Region copies come from backups before they move to cold storage, so schedule tier moves after the copies run.
Sometimes the best third-party tool is no third-party tool
Plenty of teams should stay on AWS Backup and PITR alone, and I'd rather say that plainly than sell you a console you'll open twice a year. If a full restore fits inside your recovery time objective and no one ever requests data past the 35-day mark, native is fine.
The same goes when incidents tend to be whole-table events, or when monthly full copies already satisfy the auditors. A third-party tool there adds a bill and a vendor review without changing your worst day.
The math shifts with size. At AWS's US East list prices, a 10 TB table runs about $2,050 a month for PITR, and each full restore to fix a few thousand items adds roughly $1,540 in restore charges.
That's when a third-party tool earns its place: big tables, writes that never stop, or questions about last year's data. Until then, switch PITR on for any table you'd hate to lose, and spend $1.50 on an AWS Backup restore test (the cheapest insurance on this page).
Common questions
When is AWS Backup enough for DynamoDB?
AWS Backup plus PITR is enough when a whole-table restore into a new table fits your recovery time objective and full copies cover any retention past 35 days. Teams with very large or constantly written tables tend to add a third-party tool for smaller restores.
Do third-party DynamoDB backups cost more than AWS Backup?
It depends on retention and change rate. AWS Backup stores each DynamoDB copy in full ($0.10 per GB-month warm in US East as of October 2026), while incremental third-party tools store mostly what changed, so model both against your own table size, change rate, and retention.
Can a third-party tool restore DynamoDB into the original table?
Yes, some can. Every native restore creates a new table, while Commvault's Clumio, for example, writes filtered record restores in place and uses Backtrack to roll a live table back at the partition level.
