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.
"Amazon S3 is a stable solution."
"It is easy to manage and easy to understand."
"The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the global availability, resiliency, and ease of access control."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is storage, which provides a personal capacity."
"The initial setup is not difficult or overly complex. It's very straightforward and easy to implement."
"The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"The solution’s storage management is good and dynamic. The product is highly stable. The solution is highly scalable. The customer service and support is good. The initial setup is straightforward. I recommend the solution."
"We use the solution for migration."
"I like the price. If you compare Glacier to others, the prices in terms of what you store beyond retention are much lower."
"The solution is secure."
"I would like there to be more support without needing to use Transfer Family."
"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."
"The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."
"The pricing for Amazon S3 needs improvement. Another area for improvement is the file size change because it has some limitations that require more time for rendering, especially if you're not merely uploading a file, but reviewing that file, too."
"Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs."
"The security model can be improved as it is a bit confusing."
"The solution's pricing should be modified to automatically expand storage based on prior usage."
"We need the mapping to Windows. That feature is needed in S3. That feature is in the Azure cloud where we can map it like a drive. We can map the cloud storage to the effort driving our Windows PC. But Amazon is not providing that feature for the S3 solution."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"They can improve data discovery."
"The learning curve is very high."
"The product’s pricing must be improved."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"The user experience must be improved."
"Amazon S3 Glacier could be more secure."
"Technical support needs improvement. Previously, even though we had premium and enterprise support, the response time would be quicker if we ran into issues, but now it is slowed down. The analytical dashboard feature, like the CloudOps dashboard, should be included in the next release of the Amazon S3 Glacier."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 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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