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."The multi-zone replication is great."
"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 most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is the data transfer acceleration because it can enable fast, easy, and secure data transfer."
"Amazon S3 is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the sharing capabilities."
"I've also used Azure's tool, and S3 is far more stable I haven't seen the same issues on AWS that I'm having on Azure. Amazon CloudFront is way faster. The websites are loading way faster than when you do it on Azure CDN."
"The stability is very good."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the global availability, resiliency, and ease of access control."
"We use the solution for migration."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"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 pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"The solution is secure."
"Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."
"The solution is great for storing data you don't usually need access to. It's also well-integrated with Amazon S3."
"AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything."
"The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."
"We need the mapping to Windows. That feature is needed in S3. That feature is in the Azure cloud where we can map it like a drive. We can map the cloud storage to the effort driving our Windows PC. But Amazon is not providing that feature for the S3 solution."
"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."
"The tool needs to improve its flexibility in support."
"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."
"I would like a batch downloading option added to the AWS console."
"The solution's cost should be improved."
"It could maybe use more integration."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"The product is difficult to use."
"Technical support needs improvement. Previously, even though we had premium and enterprise support, the response time would be quicker if we ran into issues, but now it is slowed down. The analytical dashboard feature, like the CloudOps dashboard, should be included in the next release of the Amazon S3 Glacier."
"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."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"The solution’s deployment process is complex and could be improved."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 67 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 Wasabi, 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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