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."Uploads are secure and occur instantly."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is its flexibility as a solution to suit many different use cases."
"The most valuable feature is the sharing capabilities."
"S3 is well suited for both big and little data repositories of objects ranging from backup to archive to active video images and much more."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are its storage capabilities, security, and integration."
"Amazon S3 is a storage bucket service with good stability."
"Set up a performance and stress-based test suite to measure the endurance of a web application on Amazon AWS cloud system using S3 as the back-end storage infrastructure."
"I used Amazon AWS/S3 solution to prove my concept before deploying it on real hardware. It was a great experience and was really scalable."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a stable and scalable solution."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"The pricing and licensing are pretty complex."
"The support is better than other cloud providers but sometimes it takes a while to have a resolution to our issues."
"There are some scalability limitations."
"Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored."
"Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive."
"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."
"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."
"Amazon S3 could improve the load balancers. They are very basic compared to other solutions in the industry, such as F5. It has to be able to be analyzed up to a certain level."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."
"I am unsure if the product provides good integration capabilities. From an improvement perspective, I want the tool to provide easier integration features."
"Amazon S3 Glacier could be more secure."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"The learning curve is very high."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
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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