We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Microsoft Azure Block Storage 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."AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."
"I like the price. If you compare Glacier to others, the prices in terms of what you store beyond retention are much lower."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"I find Amazon S3 Glacier valuable for storing various documents like purchase orders, standard documents, and drawings."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."
"Storing and then retrieving data are the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage."
"This is a very stable solution."
"One can easily scale with this program."
"The solution has a valuable gearing feature."
"The solution is stable."
"The price is decent. I rate Azure Block Storage eight out of 10 for affordability."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The data lake is invaluable. We also use Microsoft SQL in terms of structuring the data and getting into a position where it could be useful to support reporting. We Databricks for data science. We incorporated Databricks with that as well."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"They can improve data discovery."
"The product’s pricing must be improved."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"The learning curve is very high."
"Amazon S3 Glacier could be more secure."
"The product is difficult to use."
"The integrations right now are limited, however, we are hopeful this will improve as the cloud continues to develop."
"There is a drawback or limitation to the GRS storage feature because depending on the amount of data, it could take a lot of time."
"There should be a discount on Block Storage for people who use it more often."
"I find the user interface of newer versions, particularly, the flows, not user-friendly. The UI of Azure’s initial version was very comfortable. I didn’t have to remember floor menus. I knew where I had to go to see the logs or grab configuration parameters."
"The implementation can be quite technical."
"I would like for the next release to replace the CDN being used for content delivery, there is currently a rather long delay."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is more complex than Google Drive, but it is still not too difficult."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage can improve the configuration to be more user-friendly."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 34 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 51 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 7.8. 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 Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "Straightforward to set up and reliable with good features on offer". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Amazon S3 and Oracle Database Backup Service, whereas Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Wasabi, Microsoft Azure Object Storage and Google Cloud Storage Nearline. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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