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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