We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier 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."My company uses Amazon S3 by default for every single project. I like that you can use it for storing different file formats. Amazon S3 is also the easiest to use compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the automated replication of the data."
"We can easily connect to the AWS resources."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the accuracy and the life cycle policies, which help when moving from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier."
"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."
"I don't have any problems with the solution. It's issue-free."
"The stability is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is the data transfer acceleration because it can enable fast, easy, and secure data transfer."
"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."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."
"It is the most feature-rich platform."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a scalable and easy-to-manage solution with good read-write capability."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is great for storing data you don't usually need access to. It's also well-integrated with Amazon S3."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The free web and DB hosting could be improved. It could be faster when you download huge files from the S3 bucket to your local system. If the S3 bucket availability and performance could be improved, we would consider hosting our database over there."
"I would like to see the API for beginners improved because it is hard to understand."
"The UI should be more user-friendly."
"They could always increase object storage ability."
"Maybe it could be a bit cheaper."
"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."
"The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."
"Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller."
"The learning curve is very high."
"The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"The stability must be improved."
"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’s pricing must be improved."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon S3 Glacier writes "A cost-effective solution to reduce storage and cost footprint". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Google Cloud Storage and Zadara, whereas Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System). See our Amazon S3 vs. Amazon S3 Glacier report.
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