We performed a comparison between Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier, and Google Cloud Storage Nearline based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."S3 is well suited for both big and little data repositories of objects ranging from backup to archive to active video images and much more."
"The most useful features of Amazon S3 are the intelligent multipart upload."
"Amazon S3 has multiple types of data detection. You can store data on a monthly basis, yearly basis, and long term basis."
"Amazon S3 is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are VNet, virtual machines, and Elastic Kubernetes Service."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are its storage capabilities, security, and integration."
"Set up a performance and stress-based test suite to measure the endurance of a web application on Amazon AWS cloud system using S3 as the back-end storage infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the accuracy and the life cycle policies, which help when moving from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"We use the solution for migration."
"We get free credits from Amazon, and we like the overall stability. We haven't had to rely heavily on their customer success teams, which is a good sign."
"It is a very comprehensive tool."
"We like that the price is cheaper."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"It provides the necessary support and flexibility to manage data storage effectively, especially during times of variable data flow."
"I find the flexibility in storing documents or data and the ease of retrieval valuable with this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Nearline is the access. It's helpful to move data that is generated once a month, such as salary information, to Nearline."
"The capacity and space on offer are excellent."
"Nearline is highly stable."
"The data structure and the types of data that are supported are very good."
"It can isolate files and stop them from corrupting other files."
"Google is always introducing new features and tends to have a new release every month."
"You need to fully understand the solution's best practices to get the most out of its security features."
"Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller."
"The query size in Amazon S3 has room for improvement because it's limited. Querying on Amazon S3 is also expensive with Amazon Athena, so that's another area for improvement in the solution."
"Could include some additional security features."
"Amazon S3 could improve by providing some type of storage notification."
"The solution's data transfer speed could be improved."
"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."
"Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved."
"The solution's pricing is too expensive and could be improved."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"They should provide more options or flexibility in terms of pricing."
"They need a better, more visual, user interface for folders and files."
"The pricing is quite high."
"The solution needs to offer better System Information and Event Management (SEIM). I'd like to discover how we could implement something like that within Google's cloud."
"The suggestion for improvement primarily revolves around cost efficiency."
"The UI could be a little bit more effective."
"The interface for managing file storage in the buckets could be improved."
"Nearline security could be better. The solution could integrate better with SEIM tools."
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