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."It's reliable and stable."
"Amazon S3 is a storage bucket service with good stability."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"Uploads are secure and occur instantly."
"The most valuable features are VNet, virtual machines, and Elastic Kubernetes Service."
"The main aspect we like is that it's been easy to use."
"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."
"We save money with the product."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"It is a very comprehensive tool."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The main advantage of Glacier is its low cost. It is incredibly cheaper than other storage options, especially for objects you don't access frequently. Glacier would add value if you have a staging area for objects you only need to access occasionally. Since we have data in terabytes between S3 buckets, we can significantly reduce our storage and cost footprint by using Glacier."
"The product is easy to use."
"I like creating buckets where data can be segregated at a high level and then routing the appropriate data to each designated bucket. In terms of value, I would say that the tool gets the job done in a simpler manner."
"Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored."
"We would like some improvement in the cost of storage via this solution, as it currently has a very high price point."
"The support is better than other cloud providers but sometimes it takes a while to have a resolution to our issues."
"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."
"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."
"The UI should be more user-friendly."
"The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts."
"The pricing and licensing are pretty complex."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"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."
"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."
"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."
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 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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