We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Microsoft Azure Object 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."The tool is simple to use and not very expensive."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."
"The biggest advantage of the product is that AWS always copies the tool internally."
"Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The solution is great for storing data you don't usually need access to. It's also well-integrated with Amazon S3."
"The solution is secure."
"I find Amazon S3 Glacier valuable for storing various documents like purchase orders, standard documents, and drawings."
"The product has good accessibility."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Object Storage is that it is on the cloud."
"Blob Storage is one of the best resources in Azure for storing unstructured data such as files, video files, audio files, and Excel files."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"Object Storage's best feature is that it's easy to deploy."
"AzCopy is probably the best feature. It's a scripting app or a scripting function. Whether it's a Linux batch or a PowerShell script, you can essentially just send a file via a line of code with a specific key."
"The index search and block storage are valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the cost value, which is very important for long term retention."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"They can improve data discovery."
"The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."
"The product’s pricing must be improved."
"The stability must be improved."
"The tool should be a little bit cheaper."
"The solution needs to improve the custom domain integration with static web pages. Even though Blog Storage is providing the static content hosting feature, due to the custom domain availability, the integration is not available. In most cases, we withdraw from that service and use our app service to host our static data feeds."
"The cost of support is always expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"Azure's technical support could be better - they take a long time to respond, and issues get transferred to multiple engineers, so you have to repeat the whole story every time without getting any proper resolution."
"Technical support should be a little bit faster."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage is a pretty expensive solution."
"Object Storage's integration with other backup software could be improved."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is ranked 10th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 43 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Object 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 Object Storage writes "Easy to query, offers great security, and integrates well with other Microsoft applications". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas Microsoft Azure Object Storage is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Wasabi, Amazon S3 and Nutanix Unified Storage. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Microsoft Azure Object Storage report.
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