We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Microsoft Azure Object 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 data archive feature is valuable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a stable and scalable solution."
"The tool is simple to use and not very expensive."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."
"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 secure."
"This solution is easy to use, and performance-wise it is better than others."
"The layout of Microsoft is professional."
"The index search and block storage are valuable features."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"The file retention and object retention have been most valuable."
"The solution is stable. It works fine for us."
"Object Storage's best features are the soft delete option and the retention period."
"You can peer into different levels of the archive."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"The solution's pricing is too expensive and could be improved."
"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 tool could be made cheaper."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved."
"The solution can be quite slow."
"The setup process could always be a bit easier."
"The solution's stability should be improved."
"Technical support should be a little bit faster."
"The administration of the solution is not as easy as we would like it to be."
"One of the things that are currently important is consistency. To achieve this, another database called Cosmos DB is available. We want to have a similar consistency to the one in Cosmos DB but at a cheaper price."
"The tool should be a little bit cheaper."
"The product is expensive."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is ranked 9th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 45 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Object 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 Object Storage writes "Can be used to safely store big datasets in the cloud at a reasonable price". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas Microsoft Azure Object Storage is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Microsoft Azure Object Storage report.
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