8 Best Amazon DynamoDB Backup Solutions for 2026, From AWS Backup and PITR to Third-Party Tools

DynamoDB point-in-time recovery keeps 35 days of history at most, and every native restore (PITR, on-demand, or AWS Backup) lands in a brand-new table your app has never met. Those two facts sort the Amazon DynamoDB backup solutions below faster than any feature grid.

Here’s the TL;DR:

Eon is the best Amazon DynamoDB backup solution for cloud-first teams on AWS that need record-level restores, because it restores only the items a bad write touched and keeps history past 35 days. It’s cloud-native data protection for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.

AWS Backup with DynamoDB PITR is the native layer I’d keep under every option here. Commvault’s Clumio adds partition-level rollback for AWS-centric estates, and Rubrik fits teams already standardized on Rubrik Security Cloud.

N2W, Veeam, and Druva automate whole-table backups from consoles their users already know, while HYCU hands app owners their own restore button.

What do AWS Backup and PITR already give you?

Quite a lot, and I’d switch all of it on before buying anything.

Turn on PITR and DynamoDB records changes continuously, so you can rewind to any second inside a window you pick, from a single day up to 35. It also covers a dropped table: delete one while PITR is active, and DynamoDB retains a system backup for as long as 35 days, free.

On-demand backups are full copies of the table, as many as you like, with no hit to provisioned throughput. AWS positions them for long-term retention and archiving, which works fine until the table doubles in size (and every copy after that doubles with it).

On top of those copies, AWS Backup layers scheduling, a cold storage tier, and retention you can stretch to a century. Accounts that began using AWS Backup after November 2021 get its advanced DynamoDB features by default, which unlock copies into other Regions and other accounts.

Those advanced features also let DynamoDB backups live in a logically air-gapped vault, which AWS locks in compliance mode and stores in a service-owned account. You can share that vault through AWS RAM with other accounts, including accounts in other organizations.

AWS itself describes advanced DynamoDB backups and PITR as complementary, and that pairing is the floor every tool below builds on.

1. Eon: cloud-native data protection with record-level DynamoDB restores

This is my pick for the morning when a few thousand items go bad in a table that never stops taking writes. The platform is cloud data protection and recovery for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, built by the team behind CloudEndure (which AWS later acquired).

Best for: Cloud-first AWS teams whose DynamoDB tables are big or busy, where a bad write has to be undone item by item while the rest of the table keeps serving, and where someone will ask for history older than PITR’s 35-day ceiling.

Setup is a single read-only IAM role, with no agents, appliances, or clusters to run. After an initial full scan, it follows DynamoDB Streams for incremental changes, with backups as often as every 15 minutes.

Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) discovers new tables, classifies what’s in them, and applies policy without anyone tagging them by hand. Copies land in an immutable, logically air-gapped vault with time-bound access, so a stolen production key doesn’t reach your recovery data.

How restores work: Backups are stored in open formats (Apache Iceberg and Parquet), and Global Search finds the affected records across backups in seconds. You can also query the pre-incident snapshot in place from Athena, Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.

Those matching records are all that goes back, and they can land in the original table, a different table, another Region, or another account. Writes that arrived after the incident are left untouched (the part your on-call engineer will appreciate most).

Pricing: Usage-based, billed per GB per month on protected storage, with no tier ladder and flexible spending commitments. Vault-side global deduplication is how it gets to up to 50% lower cost, and there are no retrieval, restore, or egress fees.

Limitations: Its tightest recovery-point interval is 15 minutes, so a to-the-second rewind of a same-day mistake is still PITR’s job (teams pairing the two usually hold about seven days of PITR).

You won’t find a list price on the website, and it has fewer reference customers than the long-established vendors.

Ransomware detection (add-on) is priced as its own package, and detection for databases is still in early access.

2. AWS Backup and DynamoDB PITR: the native layer to keep under everything

You install nothing and sign no new contract, and CloudTrail logs each backup and restore call. Day to day, PITR owns the recent weeks at one-second granularity, while AWS Backup owns the long tail: monthly snapshots, cold storage, and copies parked in other accounts and Regions.

Best for: Any DynamoDB table you’d miss, as the base of the stack, and as the entire plan when your realistic incidents wipe out whole tables and your retention fits inside full copies.

How restores work: Whatever the source (PITR, on-demand, or AWS Backup), the full dataset comes back as a separate table while the damaged one keeps running. Plan to redo IAM policies, auto scaling, tags, alarms, TTL, streams, and the PITR setting on that copy.

Restore testing runs scheduled checks at $1.50 per restore, which is cheap insurance against discovering mid-incident that the runbook went stale.

Pricing: As of October 2026 in US East (N. Virginia), PITR costs $0.20 per GB-month, on-demand backups $0.10 per GB-month, and restores $0.15 per GB. AWS Backup charges $0.10 per GB-month warm, $0.03 cold (90-day minimum), and $0.115 in a logically air-gapped vault.

PITR is billed on table size, so trimming the window from 35 days to 7 leaves the bill where it was. A 10 TB table runs about $2,050 a month for PITR alone.

Limitations: AWS Backup’s item-level restore covers S3, EBS, EFS, VMware, Redshift Serverless, and EKS, so for DynamoDB the unit is the table. Fixing 5,000 bad items means restoring all of it and copying those items back by hand, and each copy to another Region or account is a full table backup.

3. Commvault (Clumio): Backtrack rollback for AWS-centric DynamoDB estates

Clumio, which Commvault acquired in 2024, is a managed service that backs up DynamoDB incrementally every 15 minutes into its SecureVault. Its signature DynamoDB feature is Backtrack, which rolls a live table back in place, partition by partition, to an earlier point in time.

Best for: AWS-centric teams (Clumio also covers Google Cloud) that want managed DynamoDB protection, an in-place rollback option, and a published rate card they can model before a trial.

How restores work: Backtrack only ever writes back to the table it came from. For everything else, you narrow the records with partition-key, sort-key, and attribute filters, preview the hits, and send them to the live table, a different table, or a CSV export, even in another account or Region.

Commvault Cloud also has its own DynamoDB agent with stream-based incrementals and table-level restores, which suits estates already running Commvault for SAP, Oracle, or Exchange.

Pricing: Clumio’s October 2026 rate card charges $0.15 per GiB-month for DynamoDB backup, with $0.02 added for every million items processed, and $0.20 per GiB restored on top of data transfer out. Commvault prices its self-managed Cloud software by front-end terabytes, on quote.

Limitations: Restores bill per GiB plus data transfer out, so a month with a few large recoveries moves the invoice, and retention carries a 3-day minimum. Clumio’s coverage is AWS and Google Cloud, so an Azure footprint needs a second product.

4. Rubrik: immutable-by-default DynamoDB backups for Rubrik Security Cloud shops

Rubrik calls itself the Security and AI Operations Company, and its DynamoDB protection runs inside Rubrik Security Cloud with incremental backups and immutability on by default. Policies cover tables across connected AWS accounts and Regions, and recovery workflows span both.

Best for: Companies whose data center and cloud workloads already sit in Rubrik and who want DynamoDB folded into the policies, reporting, and security staff they already have.

Rubrik’s security-led tooling, such as Threat Hunting with file patterns, hashes, and YARA rules, earns its reputation on VMs and file data, because file-based scanning reads storage files and a managed database like DynamoDB never exposes its contents as files to scan.

How restores work: Rubrik’s DynamoDB page describes recovery as workflows across Regions and accounts. Ask to watch the smallest unit it brings back, on one of your own tables, before you sign anything.

You also choose a deployment model. Customer-hosted runs the compute and storage inside your own AWS accounts, while Rubrik Managed Cloud Protection has Rubrik host and run that infrastructure for you.

Pricing: There’s no public price list. Foundation, Business, and Enterprise editions all route to sales, and Enterprise Edition is sold as a three-year subscription covering software and support.

Limitations: Rubrik’s own blog says the managed model moves data outside your AWS organization by design, so it’s a poor fit when policy keeps backups inside your account boundary. Customer-hosted keeps the data in, but you own the networking, IAM roles, and security posture around it.

5. N2W (formerly N2WS): rehearsed DynamoDB recovery scenarios from one console

You deploy N2W Backup & Recovery yourself as a Linux virtual appliance called the N2W Server, then manage DynamoDB through policies keyed to tags. From that console you also reach EC2, RDS, and even VMs on Azure and Google Cloud.

Best for: AWS shops that like native DynamoDB snapshots but want the scheduling, tagging, and DR rehearsal handled for them, and can live with restoring whole tables.

Where N2W shines is operations, through Recovery Scenarios: scripted, testable runbooks that set the sequence tables and other resources return in.

How restores work: Recovery brings back whole tables in the same Region as the backup, and if the original still exists, the restored table gets a new name. Table tags and TTL settings come back with it, which saves a chore native restores leave to you.

For DR copies in another Region or account, N2W hands off to AWS Backup’s advanced DynamoDB features, which means each copy is a full one.

Pricing: As of October 2026, N2W’s Standard tier runs $249 a month and covers 2 TB of unattached storage, 3 accounts, and 20 instances, cheaper still if you pay annually. The bigger tiers (Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+) need a sales conversation.

Limitations: You run and patch the N2W Server yourself. N2W also recommends no more than 10 DynamoDB tables per policy, which means a lot of policies across a big estate.

6. Veeam: DynamoDB inside an existing Veeam Backup & Replication estate

Veeam’s home turf is VM and hypervisor estates (v13.1 supports 14 hypervisors), and its DynamoDB coverage ships as the Veeam Plug-in for AWS inside Backup & Replication. With over 550,000 customers, plenty of teams already have the console open.

Best for: Veeam shops protecting VMs and data center servers that want DynamoDB to show up in the console, reports, and on-call routine they already run.

How restores work: Veeam snapshots the entire table natively and keeps it in a backup vault in its home Region, with optional copies to other Regions under the same account. On the way back, you pick one or more whole tables and send them to their original location or a new one.

The restore wizard lets you switch table class, capacity mode, and encryption on the way back. Each restore also records a reason, which builds a tidy audit trail of who recovered what and why.

Pricing: Veeam quotes its AWS protection through sales as one all-inclusive price that bundles the service, immutable storage, and support. On the Veeam Data Platform side, licensing is metered by workload.

Limitations: Veeam’s documentation keeps DynamoDB restores inside the AWS account the table came from, and backups moved to cold storage stay in their Region. The plug-in also adds a backup appliance to your environment, with worker instances deployed only when a backup or restore needs them.

7. Druva: tag-driven DynamoDB snapshots from a SaaS console

Druva’s Resilience Cloud is fully managed SaaS that also covers endpoints and SaaS apps, and its AWS snapshot orchestration still runs under the CloudRanger name. Druva’s Q3 2026 update folded DynamoDB into unified policies alongside EC2, EBS, RDS, and Redshift.

Best for: Teams already on Druva that want a tag to decide which DynamoDB tables get scheduled backups, with zero servers to maintain.

For DynamoDB, you add a tag to a backup policy, and CloudRanger finds every table carrying it and applies the schedule and retention. Snapshots are stored in the AWS Region set in the policy.

How restores work: A recovered table comes back with a new name, either in its home Region or in one you choose during the restore, and encrypted sources get matching KMS keys.

Pricing: Druva publishes its Business, Enterprise, and Elite plans without dollar figures and sells capacity as credits, where one credit covers 1 TB of backup data stored for a month. Quotes come from sales, and on the Public Cloud plans, cross-Region and cross-cloud backup start at Enterprise.

Limitations: Druva’s DynamoDB backup and restore guides, both dated December 2023, describe whole-table restores. Pickup works through tags, so a new table waits in line until someone tags it.

8. HYCU: self-service DynamoDB restores for app teams on R-Cloud

HYCU made its name on Nutanix estates and counts more than 4,800 customers. For DynamoDB, R-Cloud sets automated snapshot policies, keeps immutable copies, and gives app owners one-click restores behind role-based access control.

Best for: Organizations where many application teams own their DynamoDB tables and want to recover them without filing a ticket.

How restores work: Alongside table restores, HYCU’s DynamoDB page promises item-level recovery and unlimited retention, and every backup and restore triggers notifications and logging. You decide where protected copies live: Amazon S3, Azure, Google Cloud, or any other S3-compatible storage.

HYCU’s pitch here is “your cloud, your storage, your rules,” which suits teams whose policy wants copies held with a second provider outside AWS.

Pricing: Quote-based. As of October 2026, HYCU’s pricing page lists DynamoDB under its database workloads with a contact-us price, while per-user SaaS suites such as Microsoft 365 ($2.25 per user per month) carry published rates.

Limitations: Self-managed protection runs on a HYCU backup controller that you size and operate (HYCU recommends 8 vCPU cores and 8 GiB of memory on AWS). Ask for a live item-level restore and a cross-account recovery on one of your own tables before it carries your largest ones.

Rehearse the new-table cutover before an incident forces it

Every native DynamoDB restore produces a new table, and the cutover to that table is where the hours go.

Someone has to point the app at a renamed table (or copy data back into the original), reattach IAM policies, rebuild streams and whatever consumes them, and switch PITR and TTL back on.

I’d run that drill on a staging table this quarter and write down every step that surprised the team, since those steps are your runbook. Record-level tools shrink most incidents, but a dropped table or a bad migration still ends in a full-table recovery eventually.

Time the drill, too. Whoever is on call the night it happens will thank you for knowing whether the cutover takes twenty minutes or most of a shift.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a third-party tool if I already use AWS Backup?

You need one when your incidents are smaller than a table, or when someone needs records from months ago without restoring the whole thing. AWS Backup with PITR handles whole-table recovery well, so a third-party tool earns its cost on granular restores and long retention.

How do I roll back one bad write in DynamoDB?

With native tools, you restore the table to a second before the write using PITR, then copy the affected items from the new table back into the live one. Third-party tools with record-level restore skip the copy step by writing only the matching items back to the original table.

Does DynamoDB PITR protect against a deleted table?

Yes, if PITR was on when the table was deleted: DynamoDB keeps a system backup for up to 35 days at no extra cost, and you restore it as a new table. After that window, you need an on-demand backup or an AWS Backup copy to get it back.

Are DynamoDB global tables a backup?

No. Global tables keep live replicas in other Regions for availability, but they copy a bad write or a delete to every replica as faithfully as a good one, so you still need PITR or backups to go back in time.