Eon vs. Rubrik: Why Are Cloud-First Teams Replacing Rubrik with Eon in 2025?
Eon isn’t a retrofit or a wrapper. It’s built for modern cloud backup.
- Autonomous cloud backup posture management (CBPM)
- Instant, granular recovery with no infrastructure or rehydration
- A storage tier designed for backup, with built-in savings
- Backups become a live, queryable data lake
- No appliances or virtual controllers to deploy or maintain
- Built-in ransomware protection for cloud-native data

Feature Comparison:Rubrikvs. Eon
Capability Category
Feature
Rubrik
Eon
Deployment & Architecture
Agentless deployment



Extra infrastructure to deploy, manage, and pay for


Virtual appliances

Multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)


Partial

Backup Posture Management
Manual tagging required



Autonomous resource discovery



Backup posture validation during backup



Built-in compliance alignment (HIPAA, GDPR)



Recovery & Access
Instant record-/file-level restore



Global snapshot search



Full DB restore required



Recovery latency

High (lazy restore)
Low (instant)
Ransomware Protection
Immutable backups



Cloud resource detection



Anomaly monitoring



Clean snapshot hold



Snapshot rollback + clean restore tools



Cost & Efficiency
Incremental S3 backup (no versioning)



Cross-region deduplication



Transparent, usage-based pricing


Feature-based licensing

Built-in data classification/search



Transform backups into a data lake



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