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."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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"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."
"We use the solution for migration."
"The tool is simple to use and not very expensive."
"We save money with the product."
"We get free credits from Amazon, and we like the overall stability. We haven't had to rely heavily on their customer success teams, which is a good sign."
"The solution's most valuable feature revolves around the security-wise functionalities of the tool our company gets from using SAS keys."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is its performance."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage are flexibility and the possibility to trigger actions."
"The initial setup for the production areas was on premise, which is very simple."
"Data is securely stored."
"The initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"The ease of integration with services like CDN and computing makes it compelling and cost-effective."
"It can scale."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."
"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."
"They should increase the data limit for the free version or reduce the price."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"The stability must be improved."
"Improving the pricing structure would be beneficial."
"The stability of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is good but could improve."
"One thing that needs improvement is authentication. They need to improve the integrated Azure Active Directory for the enterprise level. For single sign-on, we can try any authentication or portal for Block Azure Function AKS. For example, if you're an administrator or user contributor, you will generate a token, then your internal middleware connects to any Azure Cloud service. You need to generate different credentials for each service. We cannot use the same token."
"The integrations right now are limited, however, we are hopeful this will improve as the cloud continues to develop."
"The support response time could be quicker."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve by allowing the switching of the hot tier to the cold tier."
"There have been problems with integration, but it's getting better."
"I find the user interface of newer versions, particularly, the flows, not user-friendly. The UI of Azure’s initial version was very comfortable. I didn’t have to remember floor menus. I knew where I had to go to see the logs or grab configuration parameters."
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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 7th 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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