IDrive also stresses that its service allows businesses to choose the geographic region where their data is stored in - something that a lot of businesses outside of the U.S. The company believes that quite a few businesses are looking for a way to use a trusted cloud provider like AWS for their backups, combined with a user-friendly interface that companies like IDrive can offer their users. That’s half of what IDrive’s on-premises version costs, though you still pay the usual AWS fees for using the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and the EC2 cloud computing service on top of that.

Matthew Harvey, the senior business development manager of IDrive, tells me that this new service will cost $1,000 per year, which will include software updates and live customer support.

Today, it’s launching an addition to Vault that allows its users to save backups to Amazon cloud storage service instead of the local server. IDrive is probably best known for its consumer and small business backup service, but the company has also long offered Vault, an enterprise version of its software and a matching hardware appliance that companies could install behind their firewalls and in their private clouds.

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