Use Case

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Snapshots, replication, and tested failover.

29 providers 782 APIs 13 declared variants

Protecting against loss and outage — scheduled backups and archives, cross-region replication, restore testing, and documented failover that meets an RTO and RPO.

29 API providers on the APIs.io network offer backup & disaster recovery. The highest-rated are Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Airbyte, Amazon S3, Acronis, Microsoft Azure.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 13 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon Direct ConnectAWS Direct Connect links your internal network to an AWS Direct Connect location over a standard Ethernet f...1 API54.2Amazon Data PipelineAWS Data Pipeline is a web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS comp...1 API52.6Amazon Snow FamilyAWS Snow Family is a collection of physical devices and capacity points that help customers with data trans...1 API52.5Veritas NetBackupEnterprise-grade data protection and backup solution with comprehensive REST APIs for backup, recovery, and...1 API50.9Amazon DMSAWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The sourc...2 APIs49.5Amazon S3 APIAmazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data...1 API48.7Amazon Directory ServiceAWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your ...1 API48.3BackblazeBackblaze is a cloud storage and data backup provider offering B2 Cloud Storage - a low-cost, S3-compatible...7 APIs47.7Pure StoragePure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardw...3 APIs47.3Chaos MeshChaos Mesh is a CNCF graduated cloud-native chaos engineering platform that orchestrates chaos experiments ...2 APIs45.1Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon Web Services is a comprehensive collection of cloud computing services and APIs provided by Amazon, ...5 APIs40.8Argo CDArgo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes that automates the deployment of a...1 API40.0Veritas InfoScaleAPIs for Veritas InfoScale, an enterprise storage and availability management solution that provides high a...13 APIs39.7
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Active-Active ReplicationBackup and ArchiveBackup and Archive to CloudBackup and Disaster RecoveryBackup and disaster recovery storageCross-Region Data ReplicationDatabase ReplicationDisaster RecoveryDisaster Recovery AutomationDisaster Recovery DrillsDisaster Recovery OrchestrationETF and Fund ReplicationReliability and Failover

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