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."The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"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 product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything."
"The biggest advantage of the product is that AWS always copies the tool internally."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most important reason we use Azure Block Storage is the ability to store large files. When we were building the solution, we knew we needed to store images and video files that are 100 MBs or more. The second thing is speed when dealing with such large file sizes."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage has the same features as other solutions, but I like that its implementation process is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease with which you connect and use it."
"RBAC, access control, soft delete, hard delete, and cool and hot storage tiers are some of the features I have found valuable in Azure Block storage."
"Azure Block Storage has very good integration with the Microsoft suite, which helps a lot when creating a digital workspace."
"This is a very robust and flexible solution."
"We use this solution for backup storage on our on-premise backup."
"One can easily scale with this program."
"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."
"The product’s pricing must be improved."
"The learning curve is very high."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"The solution's cost optimization could be improved."
"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."
"They can improve data discovery."
"The solution can be improved by including quicker hard drive access and larger bandwidth as part of the standard licensing fee."
"The solution's downside is related to its documentation, which I believe can be difficult to navigate because it is hidden between or within other pages of the product's manual."
"Customer support could be improved, it can be difficult getting appropriate support."
"The support response time could be quicker."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is more complex than Google Drive, but it is still not too difficult."
"One thing that needs improvement is authentication. They need to improve the integrated Azure Active Directory for the enterprise level. For single sign-on, we can try any authentication or portal for Block Azure Function AKS. For example, if you're an administrator or user contributor, you will generate a token, then your internal middleware connects to any Azure Cloud service. You need to generate different credentials for each service. We cannot use the same token."
"We need to do versioning each and every time, that is, check-in and check-out. If a person forgets to do that, then there could be an issue in the replacement of that particular object in the storage. It will be great if it can be automatically managed."
"The solution needs a direct connection to visualization."
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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 "A stable and widely accepted solution". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, 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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