Customer-Hosted vs. Rubrik Managed: Choosing the Right Cloud Protection Model
Rubrik, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Rubrik compares self-hosted and Rubrik-managed cloud backup models and argues the two are not mutually exclusive.
Cloud backup is not a one-size-fits-all decision, and Rubrik lays out how to choose between running the protection infrastructure yourself and having Rubrik run it for you.
The post walks through the operational, cost and control trade-offs that separate customer-hosted deployments from the managed service. It argues the two models are not mutually exclusive and can coexist within a single estate depending on workload and compliance requirements.
The guidance is aimed at teams deciding how much of the cloud data protection stack they want to own.