We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Microsoft Azure Block Storage 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."Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."
"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."
"AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a stable and scalable solution."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"The solution is secure."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"We like that the price is cheaper."
"The ease of integration with services like CDN and computing makes it compelling and cost-effective."
"The product offers hierarchical storage and we like the main space storage with business."
"Data is securely stored."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage are it stores different types of data traditional data and connectivity through FTP. Additionally, we do not need a high-speed fetching system for operations and filesharing works well for us."
"We use the solution to develop SaaS platforms on Azure. We utilize various Microsoft components like block storage and databases for this purpose."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage is an easy-to-use tool as it has a lot of APIs and libraries, making it a very easy product to get started with for a user."
"The initial setup for the production areas was on premise, which is very simple."
"The solution is stable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"I would like to see improved storage capacity and enhanced security features for better protection."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"There should be a discount on Block Storage for people who use it more often."
"I have used Amazon's solutions which are better than Microsoft's. However, since I have predominately Microsoft solutions it is a better choice for me to use another Microsoft solution."
"Some big customers have experienced some problems with the stability of the Azure cloud."
"The tool could be cheaper."
"I want to see my region added to the data center. I'm in Africa, and if a data center is specifically added under Central Africa, that will reduce data latency when accessing data."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage's stability needs improvement."
"It is also costly and not cheap compared to Internet-based networks."
"It has been a couple of years since I contacted support. However, at that time, it was difficult to get someone on the call even though it was an issue of high severity."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 9th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "A stable and widely accepted solution". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, whereas Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Wasabi, Azure NetApp Files and Zadara. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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