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."Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"I like the price. If you compare Glacier to others, the prices in terms of what you store beyond retention are much lower."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."
"The solution is secure."
"It has capabilities such as versioning and, from a security point of view, you can also back it up."
"I like the product’s versioning and file share features. The file share feature is most useful when we are connecting on-premises services. Azure file share helps to migrate small data amounts from on-premises to the cloud."
"The tool is most valuable for scenarios involving logs and monitoring. For example, logs are generated when using services like Front Door."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage is an easy-to-use tool as it has a lot of APIs and libraries, making it a very easy product to get started with for a user."
"Azure Block Storage lets you customize code you can use on that endpoint. If you want to write a logic for something, Azure Function can be used to deploy that application."
"The ease of integration with services like CDN and computing makes it compelling and cost-effective."
"This is a very robust and flexible solution."
"The tier feature in V2 is the most valuable feature of this solution. It enables you to move your storage from hot tier to cold tier into archive tier."
"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."
"The user experience must be improved."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"The product is difficult to use."
"The solution's pricing is too expensive and could be improved."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"There is room for improvement in handling GDPR compliance better. GDPR is about personal data protection and retention. It would be great if S3 Glacier could handle compliance items related to this, especially with upcoming legislation like the California law, which restricts data storage time and allows users to request data deletion."
"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."
"There have been problems with integration, but it's getting better."
"I have used Amazon's solutions which are better than Microsoft's. However, since I have predominately Microsoft solutions it is a better choice for me to use another Microsoft solution."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The solution could use a couple of security features."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage can improve the configuration to be more user-friendly."
"The solution can be improved by including quicker hard drive access and larger bandwidth as part of the standard licensing fee."
"We don't delete the other tools from the folder directly. There's no folder deletion option in Azure Block Storage. It would be nice if they could update this."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage's stability needs improvement."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0. 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, Wasabi and Oracle Database Backup Service, whereas Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Wasabi, Azure NetApp Files and Zadara. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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