We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Azure NetApp Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The data archive feature is valuable."
"We save money with the product."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly stable solution."
"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a scalable and easy-to-manage solution with good read-write capability."
"I find Amazon S3 Glacier valuable for storing various documents like purchase orders, standard documents, and drawings."
"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."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"Its security and ease of use are most valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution is replication to another region and the performance. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable. The initial setup is straightforward."
"You can change it non-disruptively. You can increase the size and decrease the size online, which is a huge benefit compared to Azure disks. It just works seamlessly. You don't need to stop the instances."
"It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something."
"Azure NetApp Files has been stable."
"It has saved a lot of time. Because in the older, conventional hardware system, they need to raise a ticket to go to storage engineering, then storage engineering would increased the size. Now, it's dynamic. You don't have to do anything. This improved the time by more than 50 percent."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its flexibility."
"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."
"The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved."
"They can improve data discovery."
"The product needs to improve cloud security."
"They should increase the data limit for the free version or reduce the price."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"The stability must be improved."
"We would like to have backup functionality built-in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data."
"We were looking for a clustered solution that has over-complicated things because we had it in AWS, which is Amazon. There was a solution for clustered NetApp. That meant there would be two NetApps that were not clustered because there was no solution for a cluster. We would like there to be an HA cluster solution."
"We would like for the files which are coming in that we can version them. So, if a file is accidentally deleted, there should have a recycle bin option where we can go back, and at least once, clean it up."
"Azure NetApp Files could improve by being more diverse to integrate better with other solutions, such as Splunk and the on-premise version. There are some use cases that are not covered natively by Azure. It is not the best solution because it is not external from the cloud which for me is the best type of solution."
"The main hurdle in promoting this solution is the price. Its price definitely requires an improvement. It is more expensive than other options, so customers go for a cheaper option."
"This solution would be improved with more innovation."
"The pricing definitely needs to be improved."
"The deployment process is somewhat complex compared to other storage solutions."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 34 reviews while Azure NetApp Files is ranked 12th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 12 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 Glacier writes "A cost-effective solution to reduce storage and cost footprint". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Amazon S3 and Wasabi, whereas Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Nasuni, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Google Cloud Storage. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Azure NetApp Files report.
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