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."An important feature of the Amazon S3's system is that it offers encryption while the files are at rest. This is crucial in ensuring the security of the files being restored and addressing potential security risks. That's what I would emphasize."
"The most valuable feature is the sharing capabilities."
"The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"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 most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the global availability, resiliency, and ease of access control."
"Amazon S3's best features are its reliability and capacity to expand."
"The multi-zone replication is great."
"Amazon S3 has multiple types of data detection. You can store data on a monthly basis, yearly basis, and long term basis."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"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 Glacier is scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"It is a very comprehensive tool."
"It is the most feature-rich platform."
"We like that the price is cheaper."
"We save money with the product."
"The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts."
"There are some scalability limitations."
"We have cold storage here, and I think that's useful. When it comes to commercialization, it's cheaper to put data that you won't be using into the data storage. You only use a little bit of the data needed each day for your transition, so you pay less."
"It is expensive for storing."
"The security model can be improved as it is a bit confusing."
"It could maybe use more integration."
"Amazon S3 could improve the load balancers. They are very basic compared to other solutions in the industry, such as F5. It has to be able to be analyzed up to a certain level."
"It is difficult to retrieve files in an emergency because the public cloud has data limits for immediate downloads."
"The solution’s deployment process is complex and could be improved."
"Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"They can improve data discovery."
"The learning curve is very high."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"The solution's cost optimization could be improved."
"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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