We performed a comparison between AWS Snowball and Palantir Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Migration Appliances solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of AWS Snowball for me are its security measures and its flexibility."
"It's a nice way of shipping a lot of data without using a network."
"The way the data is moved is very clever. Also, the interface is very simple and user-friendly."
"You are able to scale the solution vertically. It's very scalable."
"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."
"The ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."
"The data lineage is great."
"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."
"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."
"The virtualization tool is useful."
"Great features available in one tool."
"It is easy to map out a workflow and run trigger-based scripts without having to deploy to another server."
"It's not an easy product to start using for a beginner, but If you're a professional, it's easy to understand."
"It would be helpful if Snowball provided more kinds of connectivity. That will make it easier to add and move data."
"I think AWS Snowball could improve by expanding its availability to more countries."
"The stability of the solution isn't ideal and should be improved."
"The workflow could be improved."
"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."
"Some error messages can be very cryptic."
"The solution could use more online documentation for new users."
"It would be helpful to build applications based on Azure functions or web apps in Palantir Foundry."
AWS Snowball is ranked 2nd in Data Migration Appliances with 5 reviews while Palantir Foundry is ranked 3rd in Data Migration Appliances with 13 reviews. AWS Snowball is rated 9.0, while Palantir Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AWS Snowball writes "Excellent for handling large-scale data transfers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palantir Foundry writes "The data visualization is fantastic and the security is excellent". AWS Snowball is most compared with Microsoft Azure Data Box, Google Transfer Appliance, IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration and AWS Snowball Edge, whereas Palantir Foundry is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Palantir Gotham, SAP Data Services, AWS Glue and Alteryx Designer. See our AWS Snowball vs. Palantir Foundry report.
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