We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."Amazon S3 Glacier is a scalable and easy-to-manage solution with good read-write capability."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"The solution’s storage management is good and dynamic. The product is highly stable. The solution is highly scalable. The customer service and support is good. The initial setup is straightforward. I recommend the solution."
"Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."
"The product is easy to use."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like creating buckets where data can be segregated at a high level and then routing the appropriate data to each designated bucket. In terms of value, I would say that the tool gets the job done in a simpler manner."
"We like that the price is cheaper."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"Amazon S3 Glacier could be more secure."
"The solution's cost optimization could be improved."
"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."
"They should increase the data limit for the free version or reduce the price."
"The learning curve is very high."
"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."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. 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 IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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