We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Microsoft Azure Object Storage 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 product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"It is a very comprehensive tool."
"The tool is simple to use and not very expensive."
"AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Object Storage is that it is on the cloud."
"The key feature for us is the possibility to have a copy of our data and machines outside of our premises just in case of a disaster."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage provides a platform for uploading or downloading big datasets."
"It is a stable solution and serve our purposes"
"We have had a good experience with customer service and support."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Object Storage for us is its simplicity and reliability as a storage solution."
"Object Storage's best features are the soft delete option and the retention period."
"The solution integrates well with Microsoft Office 365 and includes important features such as SIEM, storage, SQL, and Cosmos DB."
"The stability must be improved."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."
"They can improve data discovery."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The product’s pricing must be improved."
"We've seen some performance issues with Azure Table storage. It's quite slow. The performance surrounding it should be improved to speed things up a bit."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage is a pretty expensive solution."
"The initial setup is not easy to understand."
"The administration of the solution is not as easy as we would like it to be."
"A more comprehensive training option is needed."
"The solution needs to improve the custom domain integration with static web pages. Even though Blog Storage is providing the static content hosting feature, due to the custom domain availability, the integration is not available. In most cases, we withdraw from that service and use our app service to host our static data feeds."
"Our current Azure setup faces challenges with API connectivity, particularly due to misconfigurations related to changes in Azure Graph."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage has had a number of failures last week due to the lack of hardware available to support the resources. However, it was only for a short time, approximately two days."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is ranked 9th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 45 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Azure Object Storage writes "Can be used to safely store big datasets in the cloud at a reasonable price". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas Microsoft Azure Object Storage is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Microsoft Azure Object Storage report.
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