Amazon S3 Glacier Reviews

My company leverages the tool's functionalities for document and file storage. The tool also provides leverage to our company to push documents from outside into our networks or into video applications that can easily consume them, which helps our organization create a good interface for our customers. In general, the tool is useful to push data and information across the organization.

If there is a bulk move from the existing archival solutions like OpenText, integration capabilities in Amazon S3 Glacier would be useful. Seamless integration capabilities can help users easily switch from one tool to another. I am unsure if the product provides good integration capabilities. From an improvement perspective, I want the tool to provide easier integration features.

I have experience with Amazon S3 Glacier.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution.

Amazon S3 Glacier is used by my company's 2,500 applications, which have around a million users. Cargill itself is a company worth 1,500,000 USD. My company also has many internal employees who use the product.

There are around 2,500 applications for the product. As time passes by and the business grows, our company will have to have more solutions in place. There will be more users when our company decides to build more applications using Amazon S3 Glacier. In general, the use of the product will increase.

I contacted the technical support team to help me with Amazon S3's database area. Amazon's technical support team is very good because they could help our company deal with the issue in the product, and we are also able to figure out why and what had happened in the tool.

The support was fast, knowledgeable, and customer-friendly.

The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.

The product's deployment phase is taken care of on another platform by another team, who does it for us.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The number of staff members required for the deployment and maintenance of the application varies from application to application since some of them are small while others are big. On the use cases and size of applications, different engineers are deployed to help leverage the services of the product.

The price point at which the product is available is pretty good.

My company does not use the product for data archiving since we have other solutions for it.

The low-cost storage solution impacted our budget for data backup, but I can't comment much since our organization is not yet leveraging functionalities. I know that there will be a huge impact on our budget for the solution if we start leveraging the tool for archival and backup.

The features I found most beneficial for secure data stored in the tool range from security availability to the ease of use it provides. I think pretty much everything has been valuable when it comes to the tool, especially if you are able to leverage its features.

The recovery options provided by the product are not used since my company does not use the tool for backup.

The product's scalability has impacted our company's ability to manage large datasets since I see that we are able to scale up, considering the data that increases every single day in our organization. In terms of performance, my company was able to scale up Amazon S3 Glacier's use. I don't think my company is looking out for more scalability features than what is offered by Amazon S3 Glacier.

I recommend the product to others who plan to use it, considering that it is easy to use. The positive factors of the product will fall into place once you start using it. Users can also figure out how the product stands out compared to the other services in the market.

The integration of Amazon S3 Glacier into our company's existing workflows improved data management processes in a pretty seamless manner. If you look at some other third-party tools, you know that no product is purely a cloud solution, and there are a lot of hybrid solutions. Many businesses use third-party middleware or software, like Boomi platform, which has come into play by providing integration between cloud and on-premises solutions.

The value derived by my company from the use of Amazon S3 Glacier is related to how we are able to seamlessly provide an interface for our company's customers to push data, documents, and other stuff, and it helps my company gather information that is required in a very easy manner. There are very few solutions that help our company deal with the aforementioned procedure. The time to market is also pretty small, but the tool has been really helpful in such areas.

I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

We use the solution for file storage. We store customer data in CSV and Excel files. We also use AWS for deployment purposes.

We don't have to manage anything. AWS manages everything. The solution is secure. We use the solution because the banking system needs to be secure.

The learning curve is very high.

I have been using the solution for two years.

The tool’s stability is good. I rate the stability an eight out of ten.

The tool’s scalability is very good. We have around 200 users. We have 23 people on our technical team. We are planning to decrease the usage.

The technical support is good. We had some issues, and we raised the ticket. The support team provided a solution within 24 hours.

The initial setup is not complex, but it is not easy. The product is cloud-based.

Third-party consultants deployed the solution for us. We used Terraform to deploy the tool.

I work for a bank. They are not into technology. We use a third-party tool so that our job becomes easy. We do not want to manage everything technically.

The vendor must provide a cheaper solution. The tool is too expensive. It must be made more cost-effective.

We are also using API Gateway and NAT Gateway. We are using the infrastructure and security features of AWS. If an organization has the budget, they can use the product. If they have a big requirement, huge loads, and a need for high availability, they must choose cheaper products. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

We use Amazon S3 Glacier for our storage purposes.

Amazon S3 Glacier is a scalable and easy-to-manage solution with good read-write capability.

The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved.

I have been using Amazon S3 Glacier for six months.

Around 20 to 25 users are using the solution in our organization.

The solution’s technical support is very good.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

Amazon S3 Glacier is a little expensive solution.

I would recommend Amazon S3 Glacier to other users.

Overall, I rate Amazon S3 Glacier a nine out of ten.

We use Amazon S3 Glacier for hosting web files for testing.

We take a lot of data from the police to do ANPR. It's basically for big data to allow bandwidth on the data center, where there are about 1,000 images per second coming through to the data center.

AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything.

Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand. I had a personal account once, and I was so scared to type in my credit card because I wasn't sure how much I would be charged.

At home, I might turn on the VM to test something, and I might be on there for three minutes wondering how much it could cost. The solution might tell you there are so many hours of free usage and a free VM, but it's still scary because you don't know how much it will cost, even if you go over one second.

The price structure needs massive simplifying and made crystal clear so people know what they're paying.

I've used Amazon S3 Glacier for years.

I rate the stability a nine-point nine out of ten. They've got shared data services, giving you an SLA of about 0.001%.

There's a huge amount of data on Amazon's data center. Every camera in the West Midlands takes photographs of cars constantly and loads all the data into the data center. Since Lambda is Python, I'd rate the scalability a ten out of ten. I understand the API Gateway completely. But when it comes to security, I'd rate it a three out of ten. AWS, as a whole package for what it provides, I rate its scalability a seven out of ten.

The technical support team has a lot of people who know their stuff.

Positive

The initial setup is difficult, not because of applications like S3 or VMs or firewalls and gateways, but because of security. The most important thing about using AWS isn't the tools you will use. It's the security you apply to it. The solution's security is a complex area involving services that talk to each other and how the users interact with those services, whether internal or external, to be logged into AWS. The people in security need to be certified.

The deployment was a continual process, working with several external organizations, such as the transport police in my case. Setting up Amazon takes under an hour if you've got everything available. But the process starts with knowing the tools we need to achieve what we're trying to do. Amazon is very good at talking, explaining what they've got, and upselling. They'll tell me exactly what you need, though they won't tell me how much it costs. But that process takes months to understand unless we get free services to trial and test the solution before you start going into it.

I've seen value and impact in my organization using Amazon S3 Glacier.

You need a PhD to understand their pricing model. We often sit through meetings, going through all of these documents from AWS, going through how to calculate pricing based on so many different factors. At the end of it, there's a fear when the bill comes in because nobody understands how much it's gonna be.

AWS has these pricing calculators. You type in which server you want and how much usage, but at the end, you don't feel confident when it says $3.98 because I know that we were paying £20,000 per month for AWS services at one point. Some of the other services are RedShift and something else. When pulling in data for the police for ANPR, storing the data in the UK data center costs a fortune.

I rate Amazon S3 Glacier a ten out of ten.

Two bits of advice: make sure you get a specialist with things like security, such as network security. The security is indirect with AWS. You could get an expert in Python using Lambda, but it doesn't make you a network security person. Once you've got a million pounds worth of business data in Amazon, you could potentially share that with the planet if you don't know how to set up the security. Get the relevant technical specialist for things like security.

The second bit of advice is to completely understand the pricing structure.

Our source metadata used for analytics and data lake was kept on Amazon S3 Glacier. Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data. If we have a large amount of data that many people are not accessing, we keep it in Amazon S3 Glacier to save the cost.

Users have to pay much less for storing data in Amazon S3 Glacier. However, it is costly to access the data from the solution. If somebody requires a large amount of data kept in Amazon S3 Glacier, that will cost a lot.

Amazon S3 Glacier becomes very costly when used on a big scale. Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions.

I have been using Amazon S3 Glacier for four and a half years.

I rate Amazon S3 Glacier ten out of ten for stability.

Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable solution. More than 100 users were using the solution, and we plan to increase the usage.

I rate Amazon S3 Glacier ten out of ten for scalability.

The solution's initial setup is very easy. I rate Amazon S3 Glacier ten out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

Someone with a little knowledge of the solution can deploy it in a day. One person is enough to deploy the solution.

Amazon S3 Glacier is very cheap, but the cost becomes a concern when you have a very large amount of data. We used to spend around $ 200 a day on the solution.

Amazon S3 Glacier is a cloud-based solution. Amazon S3 Glacier is the best alternative for users who have to access a large amount of data.

Overall, I rate Amazon S3 Glacier a nine out of ten.

We use Amazon S3 Glacier for several purposes. We have buckets for our pipelines, software repository, timesheets, and performance data. As per state regulations, we must retain this data for eight years. So to comply with these regulations, we have set up a lifecycle policy in S3 that moves the data to Glacier after five years. This means the data will be stored in Glacier for the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth years. We can retrieve the data from Glacier if we need to access it during this time. Beyond five years, the data will remain in Glacier for three years.

The main advantage of Glacier is its low cost. It is incredibly cheaper than other storage options, especially for objects you don't access frequently. Glacier would add value if you have a staging area for objects you only need to access occasionally. Since we have data in terabytes between S3 buckets, we can significantly reduce our storage and cost footprint by using Glacier.

The most valuable feature of Glacier is that it automatically processes archives. Glacier's performance is also very good. We initially thought retrieving objects from Glacier would be difficult but easy and quick.

Technical support needs improvement. Previously, even though we had premium and enterprise support, the response time would be quicker if we ran into issues, but now it is slowed down.

The analytical dashboard feature, like the CloudOps dashboard, should be included in the next release of the Amazon S3 Glacier.

I have been using Amazon S3 Glacier since 2016. We are using the latest version.

I rate the solution’ stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the solution’ scalability an eight out of ten.

There is no need for deployment at all since it is a service.

We have seen ROI with the product's use. 

The product is cheap.

If you plan to store your documents for over three years, I recommend using Amazon Glacier S3 to the fullest extent possible. This is because the longer you store your data in the tool, the more you pay. By moving most of your objects to Glacier, you can save money. Additionally, you can use Reserved Capacity to save even more money. Retrieving data from Amazon S3 Glacier is relatively easy. It is easier than retrieving data from the tool. So, I think people should use the product as much as possible.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use the product heavily. All our data is stored in it. We are using Delta Lake, which is built on the product. We have started using the solution for an app project. Some files and storage should not be in the hot area. It should go into Glacier. We are looking into some recycling policies.

We save money with the product. If some file is not frequently accessed, Glacier helps put things there. It is a fantastic product that works as expected.

We had some issues with the product’s stability. A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems. It happened one or two times.

I am using the solution right now.

The outage issue caused us a little bit of a headache, but it recovered soon, so that's fine.

We have a minimum use for the product, but I have confidence about the scalability of Amazon products. Our organization's infrastructure, DevOps, and database teams use the product.

I have not sought support. I have heard the team talking about support. We are on the enterprise level, so support is good. Up until now, we have been happy.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

The engineers, developers, and infrastructure team ensure the platform is good. We are a big company.

The solution is cost-effective.

I like Amazon very much. We are a billion-dollar company, and we use Amazon heavily. We will use the cycle policies to ensure all the files that are not accessed frequently are put somewhere. We are planning a big change in our organization to reboot our data. 

We will have more data segmentation by using different buckets. When this transition is finished, we will work more toward the different layers of storage. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

We use the solution for storage. We store photos, attachments, and different objects.

You need a strategic approach. You also need to consider the technical abilities of the person utilizing the platform to fully understand it. 

Some things are learned as you use the platform. You need to consider what you want to store, how long you will store it, and its usefulness. You need to have a proper storage plan. While understanding the platform is crucial, you must also understand the business side because you must pay for the licenses and storage you use. It's about balancing the technical and business aspects of the tool.

Amazon S3 Glacier is easy to use. The platform is straightforward, and the interfaces are user-friendly and responsive. Even with a limited budget, you can train someone without an AWS certification to use it. With on-the-job training, you can ensure they understand what needs to be done to use the service.

The cost can be lower. Sometimes, users may access the platform, advertise it, and then receive a bill they cannot afford. It would be helpful if there were a policy where a budget owner could understand the costs associated with storing data and approve expenditures based on the project budget. Due to the retrieval options, SMMEs may be ignorant of the costs and cannot afford the platform.

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability as ten out of ten.

It's pretty scalable. Yeah, it has potential if you have a demand, and they can meet it. They are perfect on their end, but you must also protect your infrastructure and data. There are some shortfalls or pitfalls that you need to ensure that you cover.

I rate the solution's scalability as ten out of ten.

The initial setup is straightforward because you use their dashboard and user interface. As long as you subscribe, it's easy to set up.

You need to comply with the requirements and ensure that you understand what it is that you need to do.

The product is expensive. They price you as you use it.

It works perfectly if you start to chat. You learn these things as you use it because it involves technical ability, pricing, and ensuring that you comply with government requirements.

Despite the speed limitations, the Amazon S3 Glacier performs well. As long as you have a network and store your data within your region, the data centers within EMA are quite responsive regarding data retrieval.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.