In the last decade, cloud services have grown increasingly popular and have become more readily available and affordable. Public cloud offerings, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), now provide ‘pay-as-you-use’ platforms that can be spun up quickly and easily. Cloud services have not only permeated our work lives; cloud platforms now dominate the way we look at and manage our personal lives and the technology in them.
However, not everyone is open to the idea of cloud and the security that these services provide is put into question on a regular basis. When it comes to data protection and backup, more traditional hardware-based approaches are still popular, which begs the question, what are the pros and cons of a cloud backup solution?
