We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to use."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The main advantage of Glacier is its low cost. It is incredibly cheaper than other storage options, especially for objects you don't access frequently. Glacier would add value if you have a staging area for objects you only need to access occasionally. Since we have data in terabytes between S3 buckets, we can significantly reduce our storage and cost footprint by using Glacier."
"The solution’s storage management is good and dynamic. The product is highly stable. The solution is highly scalable. The customer service and support is good. The initial setup is straightforward. I recommend the solution."
"It is the most feature-rich platform."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."
"Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"They should increase the data limit for the free version or reduce the price."
"The product is difficult to use."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The response times could be faster. When you are with Amazon and use Glacier, you expect a response time between four to seven hours to retrieve the data."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"They can improve data discovery."
"Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 21st in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 Glacier writes "A cost-effective solution to reduce storage and cost footprint". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. IBM SoftLayer report.
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