Backups
DigitalOcean’s Backups service handles automated, frequent snapshots of your droplets to safeguard business data. It focuses on fast recovery points, ensuring that if a server fails or data is corrupted, you can restore to a recent state without manual intervention. This is a managed storage solution specifically for protecting infrastructure rather than general file storage.
This fits teams already running workloads on DigitalOcean droplets who need integrated disaster recovery. The main trade-off is the lack of a free tier; you pay strictly on a pay-as-you-go basis for every backup instance created. There is no trial or zero-cost entry point, so costs accrue immediately with usage, which might deter smaller projects testing the feature.
- Free tier No
- Pricing Pay as you go
- Regions 8 · 3 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 5 certifications
- Provider health B
Decision score
Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.
Trust & reach via DigitalOcean
- C5
- CSA STAR
- FedRAMP
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
- ISO 9001
- PCI DSS
- SOC 1 Type II
- SOC 2 Type II
- compute99.99%
- database99.99%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.95%
8 regions across 3 continents
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
Alternatives on other providers
Equivalent services on other clouds:
- AWS AWS Backup no price Compare
- Google Cloud Platform Backup and DR Service no price Compare
- Hetzner Backups no price
- Linode (Akamai) Backups no price
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Backup And Disaster Recovery no price Compare