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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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.

    $0

    Per GB Per Month

    Amazon S3

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon S3 GlacierAmazon S3
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3 GlacierAmazon S3
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon S3 GlacierAmazon S3
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon S3
    S3 is the most mature simple storage service on the web. It has direct competitors from Google and Azure, as well as a bunch of other competitors that focus on different aspects. For example, Backblaze specializes on file backups, and while s3 can also be used for that, Backbla…
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon S3
    We are using other AWS products and AWS products have perfect integration between each other. This was the most important reason to select S3 against its competitors such as Google Data cloud or Fx Data Cloud. So far, we did not face any issues such as losing our data or any …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon S3
    Prior to using S3, we were hosting all of our assets from the assets pipeline in our Ruby on Rails application. For a small company, this approach was fine but as the assets doubled and tripled, this was no longer the way to go. S3 will help you scale regardless of company …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon S3
    Amazon S3 is where you want to default to if you want to store a large amount of data. Compared to formatted data that you can store in Amazon RDS or DynamoDB, you can store your data in any format you want on S3. And the data retention policy can be really useful if you use S3 …
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon S3 GlacierAmazon S3
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 Glacier and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Amazon S3 Glacier
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    Universal recovery00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.48 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings8.18 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings8.78 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 Glacier and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Amazon S3 Glacier
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.48 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.27 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.48 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon S3 GlacierAmazon S3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.2
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (21 ratings)