We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and IBM SoftLayer 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."We like that the price is cheaper."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We use the solution for migration."
"Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."
"The biggest advantage of the product is that AWS always copies the tool internally."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a stable and scalable solution."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"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 solution's pricing is too expensive and could be improved."
"The solution's cost optimization could be improved."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"The user experience must be improved."
"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."
"The product’s pricing must be improved."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 21st in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. 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 IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. IBM SoftLayer report.
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