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 scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"It is a very comprehensive tool."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The product is easy to use."
"We like that the price is cheaper."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"We save money with the product."
"The most valuable feature of Wasabi is its cost."
"The most valuable feature of Wasabi is the backups."
"We can store our videos on hot storage, allowing immediate access to them."
"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 initial setup is straightforward."
"The tool is very user-friendly."
"Wasabi is an easy-to-use solution."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"The solution’s deployment process is complex and could be improved."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"The product is difficult to use."
"The solution's pricing is too expensive and could be improved."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"I believe the usage reporting could be simplified, particularly for billing purposes. Overall, I find Amazon S3 Glacier's reporting system somewhat confusing compared to other hyperscalers in the market."
"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."
"Having the ability to upload and download data using third-party apps such as Mega which can sync to the desktop would be excellent."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The scalability could improve."
"Setting up users on the appliance should be improved."
"The solution’s user reporting could be improved."
"I don't have enough experience to understand the nuances of where they might improve."
"The solution must allow the extension of the retention period."
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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