Clumio
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What is Clumio
Clumio is a cloud-based backup and recovery service designed to protect data in public cloud environments. It targets IT, cloud operations, and security teams that need policy-driven backups, retention, and restore workflows for cloud workloads and data stores. The product emphasizes API-first administration and centralized management for backups across supported cloud services, with deployment that does not require customers to run backup infrastructure.
Cloud-native, infrastructure-light deployment
Clumio operates as a SaaS service, so customers typically do not deploy or maintain backup servers, media agents, or storage appliances. This reduces operational overhead compared with approaches that require managing backup infrastructure. It also fits teams standardizing on cloud operations and managed services. The model can simplify upgrades and feature rollouts because the control plane is vendor-operated.
Centralized policy and governance
The product provides centralized policy configuration for backup schedules, retention, and recovery objectives across supported cloud resources. This helps standardize protection settings across accounts and environments and reduces configuration drift. Central reporting and audit-oriented views can support internal controls and compliance workflows. Policy-based management is useful when multiple teams provision cloud resources independently.
API-first automation support
Clumio exposes APIs intended for integrating backup operations with infrastructure-as-code, ticketing, and security tooling. This enables automated onboarding of new resources into protection policies and repeatable recovery procedures. Automation can reduce manual steps during incident response and routine operations. API access also supports building custom reporting or governance checks when native dashboards are insufficient.
Cloud and workload coverage limits
Clumio’s value depends on which cloud providers and specific services it supports at a given time. Organizations with significant on-premises estates or heterogeneous environments may need additional tools for full coverage. Some specialized databases or legacy applications may not be supported natively. This can lead to fragmented backup operations across multiple products.
Less control over backup stack
Because Clumio is SaaS-delivered, customers have limited ability to tune underlying backup infrastructure, storage layout, or low-level performance parameters. This can be a constraint for highly customized retention, encryption key management patterns, or bespoke network architectures. Some teams also prefer direct control of backup repositories for internal policy reasons. The trade-off is reduced operational burden but less configurability.
Cost predictability depends on usage
Consumption-based pricing models common to SaaS backup can vary with protected data volume, retention periods, and restore activity. Rapid growth in cloud data sets or longer retention requirements can increase spend over time. Budgeting may require ongoing monitoring of protected resources and policy settings. Organizations may need governance processes to avoid protecting unnecessary data or retaining it longer than required.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (consumption-based)
Free tier/trial: 14-day AWS Marketplace trial available (see official docs).
Example costs (by workload & tier)
- S3 — SecureVault Standard: Backups $0.025 per GiB-month; $1.50 per million managed objects/month. Restores $0.040 per GiB restored. Instant Access: $2.00 per million managed objects-month; $0.09 per GiB retrieved; $0.18 per GiB transferred cross-region; $0.025 per 1,000 API requests.
- S3 — SecureVault Archive: Backups $0.010 per GiB-month; $1.50 per million managed objects/month. Restores $0.040 per GiB restored. (Note: $0.010 per GiB-month early deletion fee for some cases.)
- S3 — Backtrack: $1.50 per million managed objects-month (included free with SecureVault); Restores $0.50 per million objects processed.
- EC2/EBS — SecureVault Standard: Backups $0.045 per GiB-month; Restores $0 (no restore charge).
- EC2/EBS — SecureVault Lite: Backups $0.035 per GiB-month; Restores $0.040 per GiB restored.
- RDS — SecureVault Standard: Backups $0.14 per GiB-month; Restores $0.00 per GiB restored. SecureVault Archive: Backups $0.01 per GiB-month; Restores $0.025 per GiB restored; $0.01 per GiB-month early deletion fee.
- Aurora — SecureVault Standard: Backups $0.030 per GiB-month; Restores $0.00 per GiB restored. SecureVault Archive: Backups $0.01 per GiB-month; Restores $0.025 per GiB restored; $0.01 per GiB-month early deletion fee.
- DynamoDB — SecureVault Standard: Backups $0.15 per GiB-month plus $0.02 per 1M items processed; Restores $0.20 per GiB restored; $0.10 per GiB transferred cross-region.
- Apache Iceberg — SecureVault Standard: Backups $0.035 per GiB-month; $1.00 per 1,000 managed snapshots/month; Restores $0.055 per GiB restored.
Other notes: Regional/cross-geo data recovery fees and cross-region transfer fees apply; some features (instant access, restore times, minimum retention) vary by tier and workload. For full, region-specific details and supported versions see Clumio's official pricing and docs.
Seller details
Clumio, Inc.
Santa Clara, California, USA
2017
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https://www.clumio.com/
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