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."Uploads are secure and occur instantly."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is the data transfer acceleration because it can enable fast, easy, and secure data transfer."
"It is easy to manage and easy to understand."
"You don't have to specify your clone, availability clone, or your locations. Everything's over there. They have a receipt for the instance where we have to select the exact location of what we are clicking. The S3 storage capacity is high, and the price is reasonable."
"The users have nothing to worry about as the solution is well established."
"The storage factor and data extraction are faster because we can use Redshift for extraction."
"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."
"We appreciate that this solution is relatively easy to use, straightforward, and reliable."
"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."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"I find Amazon S3 Glacier valuable for storing various documents like purchase orders, standard documents, and drawings."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"The tool is simple to use and not very expensive."
"I like the price. If you compare Glacier to others, the prices in terms of what you store beyond retention are much lower."
"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."
"It could maybe use more integration."
"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."
"We would like to see improvement in the ability to moves files within this solution. At present the process is not straightforward, and requires us to download files to our micro service service before then uploading into the solution. In addition, the transfer bit rate for the process is very slow."
"The tool needs to improve its flexibility in support."
"The only pain point is migrating the life cycle policy because if someone is a newbie, they cannot easily create the life cycle policy."
"Could include some additional security features."
"One thing would be automatic replication between buckets, some feature like that."
"When we need to find the queries there is no user interface, it is the only textual format that is bulky. If we need some data we will use Athena for queries and we will get results. When comparing this solution to others, such as DataDog, they provide a wonderful UI, and user-friendly dashboards, and many other features that this solution is lacking."
"The solution's cost optimization could be improved."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"The response times could be faster. When you are with Amazon and use Glacier, you expect a response time between four to seven hours to retrieve the data."
"I am unsure if the product provides good integration capabilities. From an improvement perspective, I want the tool to provide easier integration features."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"Amazon S3 Glacier could be more secure."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 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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