We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Wasabi 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."Amazon S3 Glacier is a scalable and easy-to-manage solution with good read-write capability."
"AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"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."
"I like creating buckets where data can be segregated at a high level and then routing the appropriate data to each designated bucket. In terms of value, I would say that the tool gets the job done in a simpler manner."
"I like the price. If you compare Glacier to others, the prices in terms of what you store beyond retention are much lower."
"The most valuable feature of Wasabi is its cost."
"Wasabi is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature of Wasabi is the backups."
"We can store our videos on hot storage, allowing immediate access to them."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The tool is very user-friendly."
"Basically, I set Wasabi up and forget it. I'll monitor it every once in a while just to make sure that it's working correctly."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"They can improve data discovery."
"There is room for improvement in handling GDPR compliance better. GDPR is about personal data protection and retention. It would be great if S3 Glacier could handle compliance items related to this, especially with upcoming legislation like the California law, which restricts data storage time and allows users to request data deletion."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The solution must allow the extension of the retention period."
"The solution’s user reporting could be improved."
"I don't have enough experience to understand the nuances of where they might improve."
"Having the ability to upload and download data using third-party apps such as Mega which can sync to the desktop would be excellent."
"Setting up users on the appliance should be improved."
"The scalability could improve."
Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while Wasabi is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 7 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Wasabi is rated 7.8. 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 Wasabi writes "An easy-to-use solution that can be used to move local backups to the cloud". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), whereas Wasabi is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Object Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Wasabi report.
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