Keepit vs Rewind for Jira Cloud Backup (2026)

Jira Cloud is the work-tracking backbone for thousands of Australian dev teams. Atlassian's own native backup (GA April 2026) only restores at the site level with a maximum 30-day retention window and caps at 300 GB. If someone deletes a project, bulk-modifies issues via a broken automation, or a compromised admin account wipes sprint data, Atlassian's native offering cannot roll back individual items. That is the gap both Keepit and Rewind fill.

The question is not whether you need Jira backup. It is which backup you trust more when the worst happens.

Rewind runs on AWS and is partly owned by Atlassian Ventures. That is not inherently bad, but it creates a risk dependency worth understanding. If a supply-chain attack hits Atlassian, or if AWS experiences a regional outage that also affects your Jira instance, your backup is sitting on infrastructure that shares failure modes with the thing you are trying to protect.

Keepit runs its own cloud, built from the ground up for backup. It does not rent capacity from AWS, Azure, or GCP. Your Jira backup lives on entirely separate infrastructure from your Jira instance, Atlassian's systems, and the hyperscaler powering them. For organisations with mature risk models or regulatory requirements around supply-chain diversity, this is the deciding factor.

Rewind covers 60+ Jira data types, including some that Keepit does not currently list: workflow schemes, automation rules, field configurations, notification schemes, and permission schemes. If your Jira instance is heavily customised with complex workflows and automations, Rewind captures more of that configuration layer.

Keepit covers the core objects: projects, issues, boards, sprints, filters, dashboards, and field definitions. For most organisations, this is the data that matters when something goes wrong. Keepit's advantage is that everything it does capture is stored immutably on independent infrastructure. The trade-off is depth of Jira-specific coverage versus strength of the protection model.

If Jira is one of several SaaS platforms you need to protect, Keepit covers 16 workloads from a single console: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Azure DevOps, Confluence, GitHub, Okta, Zendesk, Monday.com, Miro, DocuSign, and BambooHR. One vendor, one invoice, one admin interface.

Rewind covers Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Shopify, QuickBooks, and a few others, but each workload installs as a separate app. If your SaaS estate is broader than Atlassian, Keepit eliminates the need to manage multiple backup vendors.

Rewind publishes transparent per-user pricing: $4.00/user/month for up to 100 Jira users, dropping to $0.95/user/month at scale. Keepit pricing is per-user through CRS and includes all storage without egress or transaction fees.

For a 500-user Jira instance, Rewind's published rate is approximately $2.50/user/month ($15,000/year). Keepit pricing through CRS is competitive at similar user counts, and the all-inclusive storage model avoids surprise costs. Contact CRS for a direct quote at your user count.

Cloud Ready Solutions distributes Keepit across Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea. Partners get local AUD invoicing, pre-sales engineering support, and access to the Sydney data centre for Australian data residency.

We can run a side-by-side comparison of Keepit and Rewind at your Jira user count, including an honest assessment of data type coverage gaps. If Rewind turns out to be the better fit for your specific Jira configuration, we will tell you that.

See also: Keepit vs Rewind for Confluence | Keepit for Jira product page