The best DynamoDB backup solutions in 2026 are Eon, AWS Backup with DynamoDB point-in-time recovery (PITR), Commvault's Clumio, Rubrik, Cohesity, HYCU, N2W, Veeam, and Druva.
Eon is the pick for record-level restore and long-term retention of DynamoDB tables, while AWS Backup plus PITR is the native baseline every production table should start with.
The list goes past AWS's own tools because of restore scope. A pricing job or a coding agent with valid credentials writes bad values into 5,000 items of a 40 TB table, and every native option answers by restoring the entire table into a new one, leaving you to reconcile the good writes by hand.
We checked each tool against its own DynamoDB documentation and pricing page in October 2026, and against AWS's documentation for the native limits, so you can pick a restore path before the bad write happens (and spot the cases where AWS Backup alone does the job).
9 best DynamoDB backup solutions: TL;DR
- Eon: Best for record-level restore and long-term retention of DynamoDB tables.
- AWS Backup and DynamoDB PITR: Best native baseline for every production table.
- Commvault (Clumio): Best for filtered record restores inside an AWS-only stack.
- Rubrik: Best for teams already running Rubrik Security Cloud.
- Cohesity DataProtect as a Service: Best for Cohesity estates adding DynamoDB through AWS Marketplace.
- HYCU R-Cloud: Best for self-service table restores across many app teams.
- N2W: Best for policy-driven native backups with rehearsed DR scenarios.
- Veeam: Best for Veeam shops adding DynamoDB to an existing console.
- Druva: Best for tag-driven DynamoDB snapshots in a SaaS console.
AWS-native DynamoDB backup and its limits
AWS gives you three native ways to back up DynamoDB, and all three are good at what they were built for. They share the same ceiling on the way back, though: you get a whole table, written to a new table, and nothing smaller.
On-demand backups
An on-demand backup is a full copy of the table every time, with no limit on how many you take and no hit to provisioned throughput. You can create and manage them in DynamoDB itself or through AWS Backup, and they’re built for long-term retention and archiving.
The catch: a table that doubles in size doubles the size of every backup you take from then on.
Point-in-time recovery (PITR)
PITR keeps continuous backups with per-second recovery points for up to 35 days, and you can set the window anywhere from 1 to 35 days. It's the fastest way back from a bad deploy you catch the same day.
PITR is priced on table size, so shortening the window from 35 days to 1 doesn't lower the bill. And if you delete a table with PITR on, DynamoDB keeps a system backup of it for 35 days at no extra cost.
AWS Backup and its advanced DynamoDB features
AWS Backup adds schedules, retention rules, and lifecycle management on top of on-demand backups.
Turn on its advanced DynamoDB features (on by default for accounts that started with AWS Backup after November 2021) and you also get a cold storage tier, cost allocation tags, and cross-Region and cross-account copies.
Backup plans can keep snapshots for anywhere from 1 day to 100 years, or indefinitely, so native retention has no hard ceiling as long as you're paying for full copies.
Where native DynamoDB backup stops
- Every restore is a new table: PITR, on-demand, and AWS Backup restores all write the entire table to a new table, and you can't overwrite the existing one. Auto scaling, IAM policies, CloudWatch metrics and alarms, tags, streams, TTL, deletion protection, and PITR settings all have to be set up again.
- No item-level restore: AWS Backup's has no item-level restore for DynamoDB, with or without advanced features. Fixing 5,000 bad items means restoring the whole table and copying those items back yourself.
- A 35-day continuous window: PITR stops at 35 days. Audit and investigation windows measured in years fall back on scheduled full copies.
- Full copies for every Region and account: The same table shows no incremental backup support in AWS Backup, so every copy you send to another Region or account is another full table backup.
- Cross-account copies stay inside your organization: AWS Backup only copies to accounts in the same AWS Organizations organization, and a recovery account outside it can only restore from a logically air-gapped vault you share with it through AWS Resource Access Manager.
- Reading a backup means exporting it first: You can't query a DynamoDB backup where it sits. The native export to Amazon S3 works from the PITR window, supports filtered and incremental exports, and outputs DynamoDB JSON or Amazon Ion that Athena or Glue can read once the export lands.
Native backup still has its place. The proven pattern is PITR for seconds-level recovery plus incremental backups for long-term coverage.
The cost of the whole-table model shows up at scale, in time as well as money. 60% of cloud IT leaders say a full restore takes six or more hours, and only 5% finish in under an hour, per Eon’s 2026 Cloud Data Infrastructure Report.
Global tables replicate bad writes too
Global tables keep a live replica in other Regions, which is the right tool for a Regional outage. During the October 2025 us-east-1 event, a DNS failure blocked new connections to DynamoDB for about three hours, and customers with global tables could still read and write their replica tables in other Regions, though replication to and from us-east-1 lagged.
A replica copies a bad write just as faithfully as a good one, though, so global tables keep you online while backups are what you restore from.
How we evaluated these DynamoDB backup solutions
Every verdict below traces back to each vendor's own DynamoDB documentation, product page, and pricing page, read in October 2026, with AWS's documentation as the source for every native limit. Six criteria shaped the ranking:
- Restore scope: Whole table only, or individual items and filtered sets of records.
- Restore destination: A new table only, or also the existing table, another table, another Region, and another account.
- Retention: How long history can be kept, and whether long retention means stacking full copies.
- Capture model: Incremental capture of changes, or a full native backup on every run.
- Access without a restore: Whether you can query or preview backup data before restoring anything.
- Isolation and cost: Whether backups live in an immutable, logically air-gapped vault, and how clearly the pricing is published.
Two kinds of tools didn't make the cut. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery replicates servers, so DynamoDB is outside its scope, and DIY Lambda plus export scripts work until the person who wrote them leaves.
If you're comparing tools for the rest of your AWS estate, our roundup of the best AWS backup solutions covers EC2, RDS, and S3.
DynamoDB backup solutions compared
The table below lines up all nine on the five capabilities that decide how a DynamoDB restore goes.
The 9 best DynamoDB backup solutions
1. Eon: Best for record-level restore and long-term DynamoDB retention
What it does: Eon is a cloud data protection and recovery platform that backs up DynamoDB incrementally into an immutable, logically air-gapped vault and restores anything from a single record to a whole table.
Best for: Teams with large or fast-changing DynamoDB tables who need to undo a bad write without rolling back the whole table, and who have to keep history longer than PITR's 35 days.
Eon captures DynamoDB with an initial full scan and then rides DynamoDB Streams for incremental changes, so after the first backup you store what changed.
Tables get discovered and covered by policy on their own through Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM), which is the part that keeps a new table from going unprotected.
Backups land in open formats (Apache Iceberg and Parquet) that Athena, Trino, or Spark can query in place.
That's how the record-level restore works: you query the pre-incident snapshot for the affected keys, then restore only those records into the same table, another table, another Region, or another account.
It holds up at size, too. One Eon customer runs DynamoDB tables in the 180 to 300 TB range and backs them up every four hours with 30-day retention.
Key features
- Record-level restore: Search the backup, then bring back one item, a filtered set, or the full table without rehydrating the rest.
- Incremental capture: Initial full scan plus DynamoDB Streams, with backups as often as every 15 minutes.
- Queryable backups: Iceberg and Parquet snapshots you can read with SQL before you restore anything.
- Isolated vault: Backups processed in a separate Eon-managed account and stored in an immutable, logically air-gapped vault, with ransomware detection available (add-on).
- No in-account infrastructure: Eon connects through a read-only cross-account IAM role and takes temporary snapshots only during a job, with no appliance or worker node to run and no permanent snapshot left in your account.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ Storage follows how much the data changes, so stretching retention from 30 days to a year doesn't multiply the footprint by twelve.
- ✅ Cross-account restores reach accounts outside your AWS organization directly, while AWS Backup needs a shared logically air-gapped vault to do it.
- ✅ The same policies cover Amazon Keyspaces, DocumentDB, MongoDB Atlas, and the rest of an AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud estate.
- ✅ Recovery is built in, with no separate restore, retrieval, or egress fees, so a restore-heavy month doesn’t move the bill the way per-GiB restore pricing does.
Cons:
- ❌ Recovery points come from backups as often as every 15 minutes, so the per-second rewind for a same-day mistake still comes from PITR, usually kept on a short window of about seven days.
- ❌ Record search returns in seconds, but restoring a very large table still takes time that scales with its size.
Pricing
Usage-based, billed per GB per month on the storage you protect, with no tier ladder and flexible spending commitments. Ransomware protection is a separate package, and global deduplication cuts cost by up to 50%.
Bottom line
Eon is the DynamoDB backup solution for the morning the damage is a few thousand items in a table that never stops taking writes. Run it alongside a short PITR window, and each layer covers the incident it handles best.
2. AWS Backup and DynamoDB PITR: Best native baseline for every production table
What it does: AWS Backup centralizes scheduled DynamoDB backups, retention, and copies across accounts and Regions, while DynamoDB's own PITR keeps a continuous 35-day recovery window on each table.
Best for: Every production table as the first layer, and on its own for teams whose incidents are whole-table events and whose retention needs fit full copies.
PITR covers the last few weeks with per-second precision, and AWS Backup handles everything longer: monthly copies, a cold tier, a copy in another Region, and a copy in a separate account.
The two are built to work together. AWS’s advanced DynamoDB backups don’t replace PITR, and paying for both is intentional, complementary protection.
The limit is the one every native path shares. A restore is a new table with the whole dataset in it, and whatever happened after your recovery point has to be merged back by someone on your team.
Key features
- PITR: Per-second recovery points for 1 to 35 days, enabled per table.
- Backup plans: Schedules and retention from 1 day to 100 years, managed centrally with AWS Organizations.
- Advanced DynamoDB features: Cold storage, cross-Region and cross-account copies, and logically air-gapped vault support.
- Restore testing and Backup Audit Manager: Scheduled restore checks and compliance reports for DynamoDB backups.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ Nothing to buy or deploy, and every backup and restore action lands in AWS CloudTrail.
- ✅ Backups and restores don't consume the table's provisioned throughput.
- ✅ A deleted table with PITR on leaves a free system backup for 35 days, so an accidental drop is recoverable.
Cons:
- ❌ Every restore is a full new table, and settings like IAM policies, alarms, streams, and TTL have to be rebuilt on it.
- ❌ AWS Backup copies DynamoDB in full every time, and copies stay inside your organization unless you share a logically air-gapped vault through AWS RAM.
Pricing
As of October 2026, in US East (N. Virginia), DynamoDB charges $0.10 per GB-month for on-demand backups, $0.20 per GB-month for PITR, and $0.15 per GB to restore.
Through AWS Backup, DynamoDB backups cost $0.10 per GB-month warm and $0.03 cold, with a 90-day minimum on cold.
Bottom line
Turn PITR on for every table you'd miss, and let AWS Backup carry the long-term copies. Add a third-party tool once someone asks for a few records back from three months ago.
3. Commvault (Clumio): Best for filtered record restores inside an AWS-only stack
What it does: Clumio, now part of Commvault, backs up DynamoDB incrementally every 15 minutes into a logically air-gapped SecureVault and restores full tables, filtered sets of records, or partitions in place.
Best for: AWS-only teams that want record-level DynamoDB restores from a managed service.
Clumio is the closest match to Eon on DynamoDB. Its record restore filters by partition key, sort key, and attributes, previews the matches, and writes them in place, to another table, or out to a CSV file. A PITR record restore applies the same filters at any second inside the retention window.
Cross-account and cross-Region restores work for everything except Backtrack, Clumio's in-place rollback, which always writes to the source table.
Commvault Cloud also has its own DynamoDB agent for estates already on Commvault, with stream-based incrementals and table-level restores across accounts and Regions.
Key features
- SecureVault backups: Incremental, every 15 minutes, with continuous backup and point-in-time restore.
- Record restore: Key and attribute filters, then a preview of the matches before anything is written.
- Backtrack: In-place, partition-level rollback of a live table.
- Cross-account and cross-Region: Backups and restores both, per Clumio's pricing page.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ Restores can target an existing table, so a recovery doesn't force a cutover to a renamed copy.
- ✅ Published per-GiB rates make a DynamoDB budget easy to model before a trial.
- ✅ A CSV export path hands auditors the records they asked for without touching any table.
Cons:
- ❌ Restores bill per GiB plus data transfer out, so a restore-heavy month moves the bill.
- ❌ Record retrieval runs through key and attribute filters, so ad hoc SQL across backup history means exporting first.
Pricing
As of October 2026, Clumio charges $0.15 per GiB-month for DynamoDB backups plus $0.02 per million items processed, and $0.20 per GiB restored plus data transfer out, with a 3-day minimum retention. Commvault Cloud’s Database Backup, which covers AWS databases, starts at $90 per TB per month.
Bottom line
If your DynamoDB estate lives entirely in AWS and record restores are the main requirement, Clumio is the strongest alternative here. Eon pulls ahead when you want to query backup history with your own engines or run one platform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with no permanent snapshot or agent left in your AWS account.
4. Rubrik: Best for teams already running Rubrik Security Cloud
What it does: Rubrik Security Cloud protects DynamoDB with incremental, immutable backups, automated discovery across connected AWS accounts and Regions, and policy-driven cross-Region copies.
Best for: Organizations that already protect data center and cloud workloads with Rubrik and want DynamoDB inside the same policies and reporting.
Rubrik protects DynamoDB with incremental backups that stop paying for full copies and a unified dashboard that shows every table regardless of account or Region.
The page doesn't describe restore granularity below the table, or any way to query backups before restoring, so confirm both in a proof of concept if record-level recovery is the reason you're shopping.
Key features
- Incremental backups: Policy-driven protection that only captures what changed.
- Immutability by default: Built in for full and incremental backups.
- Automated discovery: Finds DynamoDB tables across connected AWS environments.
- Cross-Region and cross-account recovery: Unified recovery workflows across both.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ DynamoDB shares one policy engine and one report set with the rest of a Rubrik estate.
- ✅ Policy-driven cross-Region copying keeps data transfer volumes down.
- ✅ Compliance and backup status reporting comes with proactive alerting.
Cons:
- ❌ Restore granularity and backup queryability aren't documented for DynamoDB.
- ❌ No DynamoDB rate card. The only public price is a $50,000 12-month Rubrik Cloud Cluster bundle (6 back-end TB) on AWS Marketplace, so cost modeling starts with a sales conversation.
Pricing
Quote-based for DynamoDB. The only public price is one fixed AWS Marketplace bundle, Rubrik Cloud Cluster with 6 back-end TB, at $50,000 for 12 months.
Bottom line
Already standardized on Rubrik? Adding DynamoDB to it is the low-friction move. Starting fresh with a DynamoDB-heavy estate, you'll want to see a record-level restore demonstrated first.
5. Cohesity DataProtect as a Service: Best for Cohesity estates adding DynamoDB through AWS Marketplace
What it does: Cohesity DataProtect as a Service (DPaaS) added DynamoDB in August 2025, with incremental-forever backups, global deduplication, and retention well past the 35-day native window.
Best for: Teams that already protect their estate with Cohesity and want DynamoDB history in a SaaS service bought through AWS Marketplace.
The cost story is incremental-forever capture plus global deduplication across accounts, tables, and Regions, with long-term data kept in low-cost cloud tiers. Cohesity says its own internal testing showed storage costs up to 20% lower.
Recovery covers point-in-time restores plus cross-Region and cross-account restores, and anomaly detection flags activity that could point to ransomware.
As with Rubrik, the DynamoDB announcement doesn't describe record-level restore or querying backups in place.
Key features
- Incremental-forever backups: No repeated full copies after the first.
- Retention past 35 days: Policies that keep DynamoDB history in low-cost cloud tiers.
- Anomaly detection: Flags unusual activity in DynamoDB backups.
- Cross-Region and cross-account restores: Plus point-in-time recovery.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ One view across every DynamoDB table, account, and Region, so unprotected tables surface early.
- ✅ Audit logs and RBAC produce compliance evidence when an auditor asks.
- ✅ Procurement and billing can run through AWS Marketplace.
Cons:
- ❌ Record-level restore and backup queryability aren't documented for DynamoDB.
- ❌ No monthly price: the public AWS Marketplace rate is a 12-month contract sold in 10 TB blocks of back-end capacity.
Pricing
$29,100 per 12 months for each 10 TB block of back-end capacity on AWS Marketplace, with premium support included. Custom terms come through a private offer.
Bottom line
Cohesity makes sense when long DynamoDB retention is the requirement and Cohesity already protects the rest of your estate.
6. HYCU R-Cloud: Best for self-service table restores across many app teams
What it does: HYCU R-Cloud protects DynamoDB with automated snapshot policies, one-click table restores, and immutable copies, and HYCU lists item-level recovery and unlimited retention for DynamoDB.
Best for: Organizations where many application teams own their own DynamoDB tables and need to restore them without filing a ticket.
Setup stays light: set a policy, let snapshots run, and hand app owners self-service restores behind role-based access control. Notifications and logging cover every backup and restore activity.
HYCU keeps DynamoDB backups as native snapshots in the AWS backup vault, so this workload has no separate storage target to pick.
Restores run in place or to a different Region. Cross-account restore isn’t documented, so check it before rolling it out widely.
Key features
- Automated snapshot policies: Set-and-forget schedules with no scripts.
- One-click restores: Table restores, plus item-level recovery per HYCU.
- Immutable copies: Ransomware-resistant backup copies.
- Cross-Region restores: Pick the restored table's name, Region, KMS key, and indexes.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ App owners recover their own tables, so the platform team stops being a restore queue.
- ✅ Restores can go back in place, under the original table name.
- ✅ DynamoDB sits in the same R-Cloud console as your other AWS compute, storage, serverless, and identity services.
Cons:
- ❌ Cross-account restore isn't documented, and the module guide covers table restores only.
- ❌ DynamoDB pricing is quote-only.
Pricing
Quote-based. DynamoDB falls under HYCU’s data workloads, with no public price.
Bottom line
HYCU fits a decentralized org that wants app teams to own their restores. Verify the item-level and cross-account details in a trial before it carries your largest tables.
7. N2W: Best for policy-driven native backups with rehearsed DR scenarios
What it does: N2W Backup & Recovery runs as a Linux virtual appliance (the N2W Server) that you deploy, and it manages DynamoDB table backups through policies, with cross-Region and cross-account DR copies.
Best for: AWS teams that want native DynamoDB backups automated, tagged, and rehearsed from one console, with whole-table restores.
N2W recovers DynamoDB as whole tables, in the same Region as the backup. If the original table still exists, you give the restored one a new name.
Its cross-Region and cross-account DR for DynamoDB relies on AWS Backup's advanced features, so the copies follow AWS's full-backup model.
N2W’s real value is operational. Recovery Scenarios let you script and test the order in which tables and other resources come back.
Key features
- Policy-based backups: Tag-driven policies with retention by generations or duration.
- DR copies: Cross-Region and cross-account, through AWS Backup vaults.
- Recovery Scenarios: Pre-built, testable recovery plans across resource types.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ Restored tables keep their tags and TTL, which native restores make you set again.
- ✅ A published entry price makes a small rollout easy to approve.
- ✅ One console spans DynamoDB, EC2, RDS, and Azure and Google Cloud VMs.
Cons:
- ❌ Recovery is whole-table only, into the backup's Region.
- ❌ You run and patch the N2W Server, and N2W recommends no more than 10 DynamoDB tables per policy.
Pricing
As of October 2026, the N2W Standard plan costs $249 per month, covering 20 instances, 3 accounts, and 2 TB of unattached storage, with discounts for annual billing. Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ are quoted by sales.
Bottom line
N2W turns native DynamoDB backups into a managed, testable routine, and restores still come back as whole tables, the same as a native restore.
8. Veeam: Best for Veeam shops adding DynamoDB to an existing console
What it does: Veeam Plug-in for AWS, part of Veeam Backup & Replication, protects DynamoDB with policy-driven native AWS backups run by a backup appliance, plus copies to other Regions.
Best for: Teams that already run Veeam for VMs and data center workloads and want DynamoDB in the same console.
Veeam captures each DynamoDB table as a whole-table snapshot at a point in time, stored in a backup vault in the source Region. Copies can go to any other Region in the same AWS account.
Restores bring back one or more whole tables to the original or a new location, and Veeam restores DynamoDB tables only to the same AWS account they came from.
Key features
- Backup policies: Schedules, retention, and targets for native DynamoDB backups.
- Cross-Region backup copies: Within the same AWS account.
- Restore wizard: Change table class, capacity mode, and encryption when restoring to a new location.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ DynamoDB lives in the console your backup team already knows.
- ✅ Licensing counts each protected DynamoDB table as one instance, so cost tracks the tables you protect rather than their size.
- ✅ Restore reasons saved to the session history let you look back at why a table was recovered.
Cons:
- ❌ Restores are whole tables only, and only to the same AWS account.
- ❌ Backups moved to cold storage can't be copied to another Region.
Pricing
Veeam Plug-in for AWS is licensed per protected instance, and Veeam doesn't publish the price, so quotes come through its sales team.
Bottom line
Veeam keeps DynamoDB in a familiar workflow for an existing Veeam estate. A separate recovery account or record restores need a different tool.
9. Druva: Best for tag-driven DynamoDB snapshots in a SaaS console
What it does: Druva protects DynamoDB through its CloudRanger AWS console, taking policy-based table snapshots and storing them in the AWS Region set in the policy.
Best for: Druva customers who want DynamoDB tables picked up by tag and backed up on a schedule, with nothing to deploy.
Druva protects DynamoDB two ways: apply a backup policy to a selected table, or add tags to the policy so CloudRanger finds matching tables and applies the schedule and retention.
Restores bring the backup back as a table in the same Region or another one, under a name that has to differ from the original in the same Region, with KMS keys for encrypted sources.
The core guides date from December 2023. An October 2026 Druva update previews backup sets, recovery points, and include/exclude rules for DynamoDB, still as table snapshots with no record-level restore or querying of backups.
Key features
- Tag-based policies: Schedules and retention applied to any table carrying the tag.
- On-demand backups: Manual table backups from the console.
- KMS support: Restores encrypted tables with the right keys.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- ✅ Fully SaaS, so there's no server to install or patch.
- ✅ New tables join a policy as soon as they carry the right tag.
- ✅ Cross-Region recovery is part of the standard restore flow.
Cons:
- ❌ Restores are whole tables only.
- ❌ DynamoDB backups are table snapshots kept in your AWS Region, and Druva's logically air-gapped, immutable backups cover EC2, RDS, S3, and EFS.
Pricing
Druva publishes Public Cloud plan tiers, and quotes come from sales.
Bottom line
Druva fits teams already on its platform who want DynamoDB snapshots by tag. DynamoDB-heavy estates will want more restore precision.
When AWS Backup is enough, and when you need a third-party tool
Plenty of teams never need more than AWS's own tools. The deciding question is what your worst realistic DynamoDB incident looks like, and how old the data is that someone will ask for.
AWS Backup plus PITR is enough when
- Your incidents are whole-table events, and rolling back the table is acceptable.
- Nobody asks for data older than 35 days, or full monthly copies cover the request.
- Your tables are small enough that a full restore finishes inside your recovery time objective.
- Every account you'd copy backups into sits inside your AWS organization.
Add a third-party tool when
- A bad write hits thousands of items in a table that keeps taking good writes, and you need those items back without losing the rest.
- Audits, legal holds, or investigations need years of history, and stacking full copies is getting expensive.
- Someone needs to read last quarter's data without restoring a whole table to do it.
- Your recovery account sits outside your AWS organization and you'd rather not run a shared logically air-gapped vault, or your estate spans more than AWS.
Using AWS's list prices, a 10 TB table costs about $2,050 a month for PITR, about $3,690 a month to keep 12 monthly copies in cold storage, and about $1,540 in restore charges every time you restore the whole table from PITR or a warm backup to fix a few thousand items (about $2,050 from a cold copy).
For teams weighing the two head to head, our AWS Backup vs Eon comparison walks through the tradeoffs. Eon works alongside AWS's own tools, and teams that add it typically keep PITR on for about seven days.
Which DynamoDB backup solution should you choose?
Match the tool to the restore you'll need on your worst day.
Choose Eon if you:
- Need to restore individual DynamoDB records into the same table, another table, another Region, or another account.
- Keep DynamoDB history past 35 days and want to query it without restoring.
Choose AWS Backup and PITR if you:
- Run small to mid-size tables where a whole-table restore fits your recovery window.
- Want zero added vendors and keep backup copies inside one AWS organization.
Choose Commvault (Clumio) if you:
- Run an AWS-only estate and want filtered record restores from a managed service.
Choose Rubrik or Cohesity if you:
- Already run either platform and want DynamoDB under the same policies, with retention past 35 days.
Choose HYCU if you:
- Want app teams to restore their own tables with role-based access.
Choose N2W, Veeam, or Druva if you:
- Mainly need native DynamoDB backups automated and scheduled, and whole-table restores are fine.
Skip third-party tools entirely if:
- Your DynamoDB footprint is a handful of small tables, PITR covers your recovery window, and nobody asks for older data.
Restore the records you lost and keep the writes you didn't
Native DynamoDB backup gives every table a solid floor: PITR for the last 35 days and full copies for everything older.
Four of the nine DynamoDB backup solutions on this list restore whole tables only, and the trouble starts when the damage is a few thousand items, the table keeps taking writes, and every native path hands you a whole new table to reconcile.
That's the job Eon takes on, alongside the AWS protection you already run. It backs up DynamoDB at any scale incrementally, keeps history as long as your policy says, and restores exactly the records you need.
With Eon, teams can:
- Restore a single DynamoDB item, a filtered set, or a whole table into the same table, another table, another Region, or another account.
- Keep DynamoDB history past PITR's 35-day window, captured incrementally after the first backup.
- Query backups in place with SQL through Athena, Trino, or Spark before restoring anything.
- Discover new tables automatically and apply backup policy without tags.
- Store every backup in an immutable, logically air-gapped vault, with ransomware detection available as an add-on.
- Cut backup cost by up to 50% through global deduplication.
When the recovery unit matches the size of the damage, a bad write turns into a short fix that leaves the rest of the table alone.
Book a demo and see a record-level DynamoDB restore run against your own tables.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best DynamoDB backup solution?
Eon is the best DynamoDB backup solution for record-level restore and history past 35 days, run alongside PITR for the last 35 days. It backs up tables incrementally, restores individual records into the same or another table, Region, or account, and keeps history as long as your policy sets.
Can you restore a single DynamoDB item?
Not as a restore. PITR, on-demand backups, and AWS Backup all restore the entire table to a new table. Since October 2026, a filtered export can pull just the affected items from the PITR window into S3, but you still write them back yourself. Third-party tools such as Eon and Clumio restore individual items or filtered sets of records directly.
How long can DynamoDB backups be kept?
DynamoDB backups can be kept indefinitely: AWS Backup plans keep snapshots anywhere from 1 day to 100 years, or indefinitely, while PITR recovery points stop at 35 days. On-demand backups are built for long-term retention. Third-party tools like Eon keep incremental history for as long as your policy requires.
Can AWS Backup copy DynamoDB backups across accounts?
Yes. Once advanced DynamoDB features are on, AWS Backup copies DynamoDB backups to other Regions and to accounts in the same AWS organization, and each copy is a full table backup. An account outside the organization can restore only from a logically air-gapped vault shared with it through AWS RAM.
Is DynamoDB PITR a backup?
Yes. PITR is a continuous backup that DynamoDB manages for each table, with per-second recovery points for up to 35 days. It doesn't give you a separate copy in another account or a history longer than 35 days, so pair it with on-demand backups, AWS Backup, or a third-party tool.
