Efficient Cloud

Efficient Cloud Backup

Efficient Cloud Backup keeps a copy of your cloud instances and data outside your cloud provider, so a regional outage or a compromised account does not take your backups with it. Backups are encrypted with a key only you hold, locked against deletion, stored in the EU, and moving them costs what a transfer inside the same region would.

When your cloud provider fails, where is your backup?

Most cloud backups live with the same provider, and often in the same region, as the data they protect. That works until the region has an outage, the account is locked, or an attacker with administrator access deletes the snapshots along with everything else. Efficient Cloud Backup puts the copy somewhere else, at a cost that makes it reasonable to do so.

Efficient on transfer

Our backup endpoints sit in the same region as your primary data, so sending backups out costs what a transfer inside that region would. Restoring is included too: bring your data back to the same provider, to another provider or to your own premises without a separate bandwidth bill.

Efficient on storage

Prices are per protected GB, the size of what you back up, not the space the copies take. The GFS option keeps long retention with a fraction of the storage that daily copies for a year would need.

Protected, encrypted, immutable

  • Encrypted before it leaves your systems, with a key neither Noraina nor the storage provider knows.
  • Stored in Wasabi object storage in the EU, with Object Lock so copies cannot be changed or deleted during retention.
  • Restore to the same cloud, another provider or on-premises.

Two retention options

Option What it keeps Price per month
Daily backup, 30 days One backup a day for the last 30 days €6 per agent + €0.15 per protected GB
GFS backup Daily copies for 15 days, weekly for 8 weeks, monthly for 12 months €6 per agent + €0.20 per protected GB

Prices exclude VAT.

GFS (grandfather, father, son) is the usual choice when a policy requires a year of retention: periodic full backups at three levels give long coverage with far less storage.

Frequently asked questions

Why back up outside my cloud provider?

Backups at AWS, Azure or Google Cloud usually sit in the same provider and often the same region as the data they protect. A regional outage, a billing problem or an attacker with administrator access to the account can make both unavailable at once. Efficient Cloud Backup keeps the copy with a different provider.

Isn't moving backups out of the cloud expensive?

Normally yes, because of egress charges. Efficient Cloud Backup endpoints are in the same region as your primary data, so the network cost is the same as a transfer inside that region, and restore bandwidth is included in the price.

Are the backups immutable?

Yes. Backups are stored in Wasabi object storage with Object Lock (WORM), so during the retention period nobody can modify or delete them, including an attacker holding administrator credentials.

Can Noraina read my backups?

No. All data is encrypted before it is stored and the encryption key is not known to Noraina or to the storage provider.

How much does Efficient Cloud Backup cost?

The daily backup with 30 days of retention costs €6 per agent plus €0.15 per protected GB a month. The GFS backup, with 15 daily, 8 weekly and 12 monthly copies, costs €6 per agent plus €0.20 per protected GB a month.