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7-Zip vs. Amazon S3 Glacier

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
7-Zip
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
7-Zip is a file archiving tool free and open source under the GNU LGPL license, which features strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats, self-extracting capability for 7z format, and localizations for 87 languages. It is available for Windows.N/A
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.
$0
Per GB Per Month
Pricing
7-ZipAmazon S3 Glacier
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Bulk Retrieval Pricing
$0.0025
Per GB Per Month
Storage Pricing
$0.004
Per GB Per Month
Retrieval Pricing
$0.01
Per GB Per Month
Expedited Retrieval Pricing
$0.03
Per GB Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
7-ZipAmazon S3 Glacier
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
7-ZipAmazon S3 Glacier
Considered Both Products
7-Zip
FR
Filippo Rizzi
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Chose 7-Zip
7-Zip is free of charge and meets all our needs in handling compressed files, both those produced by us and those that come from third parties.
The interface is the faster I've ever seen.
The competitor evaluation versions have ads or a lot of reminders that I've to pay now or …
Amazon S3 Glacier
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon S3 Glacier
We only compared the costs but as most of our machines and services are AWS centric and final call was with client so they decided to go with AWS Glacier only.
PP
Patrick Plaisance
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Chose Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon Glacier isn't a direct competitor to the products I've listed; it could compare to the clouds/data warehouses each of these products use to store their data. In the case of CloudBerry, Amazon Glacier is used with it to create a complete archival backup system. That …
Dylan Cauwels | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dylan Cauwels
DevOps Engineer
Chose Amazon S3 Glacier
Glacier is convenient with systems already on AWS and cheaper than S3 for data that needs to be accessed infrequently. A great tool for any team to use that has a legacy system or data.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon S3 Glacier
Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having *another* third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in …
Jeff Stockamp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeff Stockamp
Principal Systems Administrator
Chose Amazon S3 Glacier
The other alternatives for us would involve moving objects out of S3 to some other object storage services, which would generate a lot of network traffic, or keep the objects on more expensive storage.
Chose Amazon S3 Glacier
It is significantly cheaper than other services, however, it is because it actually is a slightly different service. The other services we've tried allow live reading/writing of data as needed, whereas Glacier is a "cold storage" service. So essentially your choice ends up …
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
7-ZipAmazon S3 Glacier
Likelihood to Recommend
Support a wide range of languages .
Fast for preview zipped files.
Very good compress ratio in 7z format.
Old style interface, but quick and easy to learn.
Command line version with parameter switches for batch scripts.
In advance settings the amount of concurrent threads can be decided by the user.
Free of charge without advertisement, bloatware o potentially unwanted program.
A bit slow and cpu consuming when there are a lot of heavy files
FR
Filippo Rizzi
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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As described in the use case, it is perfect for backup data storage where you do not expect to retrieve the data often. Think of it as a data dump; it is nice to know you have a backup, but it actually is expensive and somewhat difficult to retrieve everything.
Rytis Slatkevičius | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros
  • compress/decompress fast
  • interface easy of use
  • command line capabilities
  • various format supported
  • multiplatform
FR
Filippo Rizzi
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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  • Glacier is an inexpensive solution to the problem of storing rarely-accessed data for years.
  • You can configure S3 buckets to transition objects to Glacier with a few clicks.
  • It is easy to get started with Glacier; there is little learning curve and few concepts to familiarize yourself with.
Gavin Hackeling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gavin Hackeling
Data Scientist
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Cons
  • outdated interface... but is very quick and is not so bad
  • improve speed of compression algorithm
  • some compressed files are not fully supported
FR
Filippo Rizzi
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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  • Billing system isn't the smoothest to operate
  • Recalling information from glacier can run slow depending on type of data
  • Customer support
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
No answers on this topic
It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire.
Rytis Slatkevičius | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered
7-Zip is free of charge and meets all our needs in handling compressed files, both those produced by us and those that come from third parties.
The interface is the faster I've ever seen.
The competitor evaluation versions have ads or a lot of reminders that I've to pay now or then.
FR
Filippo Rizzi
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Read full review
Amazon Glacier isn't a direct competitor to the products I've listed; it could compare to the clouds/data warehouses each of these products use to store their data. In the case of CloudBerry, Amazon Glacier is used with it to create a complete archival backup system. That said, when using Amazon Glacier along with a product like CloudBerry, you can create a reliable, inexpensive cloud backup system for retaining HUGE quantities of data for much less than these other cloud backup solutions. HOWEVER, if you want to restore said data, the cost and complexity begin to become a major concern, so Amazon Glacier should only be considered in situations where you don't plan to touch the data regularly, if at all, once it's at Glacier.
PP
Patrick Plaisance
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
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Return on Investment
  • 0 cost with no suprises
  • 1 tool for many formats
  • 0 time needed to learn how to use
FR
Filippo Rizzi
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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  • With this now we are storing data for less cost as compare to what we were paying earlier
  • Increased the data access limits
Verified User
Anonymous
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