Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Dell APEX Backup Services

Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier

34 Reviews and Ratings

Dell APEX Backup Services

Dell APEX Backup Services

0 Reviews and Ratings

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
Dell APEX Backup Services	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Dell APEX Backup Services delivers what Dell presents as data protection as-a-Service enabling business users to simplify day-to-day by eliminating infrastructure management, with the goal of securing protection with backup, disaster recovery, and long-term retention. It is 100% SaaS-based with no infrastructure to manage.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon S3 Glacier

Dell APEX Backup Services

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 Glacier	Dell APEX Backup Services
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Dell APEX Backup Services
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?	Dell APEX Backup Services No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Dell APEX Backup Services
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Dell APEX Backup Services
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	No answers on this topic
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 answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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