Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Cryoserver

Amazon S3 Glacier

Cryoserver

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Cryoserver	Score 10.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Cryoserver is an email archiving solution delivered either on-premises or in the cloud. It stores copies of every email sent and received by an organisation in a secure archive. It then turns this data into a resource for everyday use. Cryoserver is designed to keep business-critical information contained in email or IM is safe and retrievable. Cryoserver free trials available.	$0.35 per GB per month.

Pricing

Amazon S3 Glacier

Cryoserver

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

Cryoserver Cloud: $0.35
per GB per month.
Cryoserver Software: $1.00
per active user per month or less

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon S3 Glacier	Cryoserver
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$150

Additional Details

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With Cryoserver Cloud the price per GB reduces as the archive grows. i.e. 120TB will be ~$0.10 per GB per month.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Cryoserver
Considered Both Products	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. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? Rytis Slatkevičius Owner 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 Helpful?	Cryoserver No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Cryoserver
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Cryoserver
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review	It simplifies my professional life by keeping all my emails safe in archive, Used to have a loss of emails previously due to accidental deletion one way or another this keeps all my emails safe, and no more IT contacts to recover emails if they are in Microsoft AD its all taken care by Cryoserver Loved the search filters can pinpoint the email I want. Incentivized jafar shareef Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Gavin Hackeling Data Scientist Read full review	no more loss of emails Safe email archive how much long it is Incentivized jafar shareef Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	Billing system isn't the smoothest to operate Recalling information from glacier can run slow depending on type of data Customer support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	There is room for improvement in terms of UI and UX Incentivized jafar shareef Software Engineer Read full review
Usability	It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized PP Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	With this now we are storing data for less cost as compare to what we were paying earlier Increased the data access limits Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Its really great tool for safeguarding emails without any scare of loosing one. Incentivized jafar shareef Software Engineer Read full review
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