Slik Protect vs AWS RDS for MySQL
Compare how Slik Protect’s backup solutions stands against AWS RDS backups for MySQL.
| ACCOUNTS | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Consumer MySQL | ✅ | ✅ |
| Enterprise MySQL | ✅ | ✅ |
| VPC protected MySQL database | ✅ | ✅ |
| BACKUP INFO | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Tables | ✅ | ✅ |
| Views | ✅ | ✅ |
| Functions, Stored Procedures, Triggers | ✅ | ✅ |
| BACKUP POLICY | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Multiple Backups | ✅ | ✅ |
| Region based backups | ✅ | ✅ |
| Unlimited Backup Cloud Storage | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom backup schedule | | |
| Configure hourly, daily, weekly, monthly frequency for any backup window | ✅ | ✅ |
| Backup on demand | ✅ | ✅ |
| Uniform pricing for any region backup | | |
| Backup database in any region without any difference in pricing | ✅ | ❌ |
| Ability to pause backups any time | ✅ | ✅ |
| Partial Database Backups | | |
| Backup selected tables only | ✅ | ❌ |
| RETENTION POLICY | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Unlimited Retention | ✅ | ✅ |
| 30 day retention | Coming Soon | ✅ |
| RESTORE POLICY | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Multiple restore | ✅ | ✅ |
| Full Restore to same database | | |
| Restore entire database to same AWS RDS instance | ✅ | ❌ |
| Full Restore to different database | ✅ | ✅ |
| Partial Restore to same database | | |
| Restore selected tables to same AWS RDS instance | ✅ | ❌ |
| Partial Restore to different database | | |
| Restore selected tables to a different AWS RDS instance | ✅ | ❌ |
| Schema Validation before restore | | |
| Check for schema changes within database before restoring to same instance | ✅ | ❌ |
| Unlimited Free Restores | | |
| No limit and extra pricing on number of restores | ✅ | ❌ |
| Restore based on Database Triggers | | |
| Configure if you want triggers within database to run before or after table restore | ✅ | ❌ |
| ALERTS & MONITORING | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Email Notifications | ✅ | ✅ |
| Slack Notifications | ✅ | ❌ |
| Task Monitoring | | |
| Alerts about backup triggers, progress percentage for backups and restores | ✅ | ❌ |
| Dashboard to track progress and backups | ✅ | Partially Supported |
| Daily Reports | | |
| Digest email about daily backups and restores summary | Coming Soon | ❌ |
| Log Export | Coming Soon | ✅ |
| DASHBOARD | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Unlimited accounts under 1 portal | ✅ | ✅ |
| Unified Web Console for multiple MySQL accounts | | |
| A single dashboard for managing all MySQL backups, check progress, start and pause backups | ✅ | ❌ |
| Multiple region based projects under same account | ✅ | ✅ |
| Unlimited team members | ✅ | ✅ |
| Admin privileges | ✅ | ✅ |
| PRICING | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Trial Period | ✅ | ❌ |
| Pay as you go pricing plan | | |
| Pay only for the storage being used by your backups | ✅ | ❌ |
| Capped pricing for startups | | |
| Pay a fixed amount every month for a max cap on backup storage | ✅ | ❌ |
| Free Restore | | |
| No additional pricing for restores | ✅ | ❌ |
| RANSOMWARE PROTECTION | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Immutable Storage | ✅ | ✅ |
| Backup Wipe Protection | ✅ | ✅ |
| COMPLIANCE | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Encrypted Credentials | ✅ | ✅ |
| In flight AES-256 Encryption | ✅ | ✅ |
| At rest AES-256 Encryption | ✅ | ✅ |
| SOC 2 Compliance | Coming Soon | ✅ |
| SUPPORT | SLIK PROTECT | AWS RDS |
|---|
| Email Assistance | ✅ | ✅ |
| Chat Assistance | ✅ | ✅ |
| Phone Assistance | Coming Soon | ✅ |
| Restore Assistance | | |
| Contact us and we can help with restoring your database in minutes in case of Disaster Recovery | ✅ | ❌ |
