We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and IBM SoftLayer 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."Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a stable and scalable solution."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We save money with the product."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"It is the most feature-rich platform."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The stability must be improved."
"Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out."
"I am unsure if the product provides good integration capabilities. From an improvement perspective, I want the tool to provide easier integration features."
"The learning curve is very high."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 Glacier writes "A cost-effective solution to reduce storage and cost footprint". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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