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    Amazon S3 Glacier

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe 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.

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    Amazon S3 Glacier
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    $0.0025
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    Storage Pricing
    $0.004
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    Retrieval Pricing
    $0.01
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    Expedited Retrieval Pricing
    $0.03
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    Amazon S3 Glacier
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Amazon S3 Glacier
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    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.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    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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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Amazon S3 Glacier
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)