Amazon S3 Glacier vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Public Cloud Storage Services category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 17.4% mindshare in PCSS, compared to NetApp’s 7.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Amazon S3 Glacier

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Amazon S3 Glacier and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are both prominent solutions for cloud storage. While Amazon S3 Glacier is preferred for its simpler pricing and support, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP seems to be worth the price due to its robust feature set.

Features: Amazon S3 Glacier is highly praised for its data archiving and retrieval, scalability, and low-cost options for long-term data storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP receives positive feedback for data management capabilities, integration with cloud environments, and comprehensive data protection. It stands out due to its ability to manage data efficiently across hybrid cloud environments.

Room for Improvement: Amazon S3 Glacier could improve retrieval times and add more integrations with other services. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could enhance its user interface, simplify initial setup, and improve usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon S3 Glacier is noted for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, while offering a comprehensive setup process, may require more time and expertise. Users find Amazon’s customer support efficient, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP’s support provides detailed technical assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon S3 Glacier’s pricing model is simple and cost-effective for long-term storage, providing good ROI for archiving needs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is more expensive, but the investment is justified with its in-depth features and high ROI in managing complex data environments.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3 Glacier

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Cloud Backup (9th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 Glacier is 17.4%, up from 15.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 7.2%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

ArunDhwaj

Technical Owner at Harman International

Versatile data storage improves security and supports increasing data volumes

Amazon S3 Glacier offers robust security features and practically infinite storage, where we can store all kinds of media swiftly. It supports various data types, including semi-structured and raw formats. These features facilitate log management and data dumping since the service is versatile enough to handle large volumes of data and provide necessary security.

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Madhusudan Srinivasmurthy

System Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler

NetApp's Integration with AWS has helped us because we had a tough time transferring data when we used an ONTAP competitor as our storage partner. They don't have integration with AWS tools, so we had to figure it out on our own. ONTAP has built-in integration and allows us to replicate a copy to our second data center. Everything is in one channel. It's possible without the technology, but it's more time-consuming. NetApp saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."

"We like that the price is cheaper."

"It is a very comprehensive tool."

"The most valuable feature of Glacier is its storage capability and cost benefit."

"It is the most feature-rich platform."

"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."

"Amazon S3 Glacier offers robust security features and practically infinite storage, where we can store all kinds of media swiftly."

"We use the solution for migration."

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"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."

"It makes sure we have control of the data and that we know what it's being used for. The main thing for us is that we need to know what applications are consuming it and responsible for it. The solution helps us do that."

"The Cloud Manager application that's on the NetApp cloud site is easy to use. You can set up and schedule replications from there, so you don't have to go into the ONTAP system. Another feature we've recently started using is the scheduled power off. We started with one client and have been slowly implementing it with others. We can cut costs by not having the VM run all the time. It's only on when it's doing replication, but it powers off after."

"NetApp's XCP Migration Tool... was pretty awesome. It replicated the data faster than any other tool that I've seen. That was a big help."

"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."

"We're able to use the SnapMirror function and SnapMirror data from our on-prem environment into Azure. That is super-helpful. SnapMirror allows you to take data that exists on one NetApp, on a physical NetApp storage platform, and copy it over to another NetApp storage platform. It's a solid, proven technology, so we don't worry about whether data is getting lost or corrupted during the SnapMirror."

"Snapshots are one valuable feature within ONTAP, but CVO's appeal is that it acts just like the on-prem solution. It's the same OS, but in the cloud. We can continue to use ONTAP as we did on-premise."

"The stability has been really good."

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Cons

"The cost can be lower."

"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."

"However, improvement is needed in pricing and support systems."

"There is room for improvement in terms of support"

"The product needs to improve cloud security."

"The user experience must be improved."

"The learning curve is very high."

"They should increase the data limit for the free version or reduce the price."

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"The encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement."

"The dashboard is a little bit clunky. I like to see it a little bit more on the simplistic side. I would like to be able to create my own widgets and customize what I want to see a little bit more versus what is currently there. That would be helpful so that when I log in, I go straight to my widget or my board without going to multiple places to get to what I need to find or build."

"The support is good in general but the initial, front-line support could be improved. Because I have already been using the product for so long, when I call support I would rather talk to somebody who is a little bit more advanced or senior, rather than talking to the first-level support. Usually, it takes some time to reach out to their senior support."

"We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side... But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"When it comes to a critical or a read-write-intensive application, it doesn't provide the performance that some applications require, especially for SAP. The SAP HANA database has a write-latency of less than 2 milliseconds and the CVO solution does not fit there. It could be used for other databases, where the requirements are not so demanding, especially when it comes to write-latency."

"The only area for improvement would be some guidance in terms of the future products that NetApp is planning on releasing. I would like to see communication around that or advice such as, "Hey, the world is moving towards this particular trend, and NetApp can help you do that." I do get promotional emails from NetApp, but customer-specific advice would be helpful, based on our use cases."

"NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP should improve its support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Customers prefer Amazon S3 Glacier because it is a cheap and pay-as-you-go solution."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"The tool is too expensive."

"There is no license, you pay for what you use."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is very cheap, but the cost becomes a concern when you have a very large amount of data."

"Amazon S3 Glacier has good pricing."

"Amazon S3 Glacier has a good pricing point, and you pay for what's being used."

"We pay a monthly licensing fee for Amazon S3 Glacier."

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"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

"For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA."

"Cloud is cloud. It's still expensive. Any good solution comes with a price tag. That's where we are looking to see how well we can manage our data in the cloud by trying to optimize the costs."

"Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

29%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

48%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Amazon's S3 Glacier or EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon's S3 Glacier or Elastic Block Store data storage software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Amazon's S3 Glacier, whi...

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What do you like most about Amazon S3 Glacier?

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 ...

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What needs improvement with Amazon S3 Glacier?

The cost of retrieval in Glacier is quite high. It would be excellent if Amazon could work on reducing retrieval costs. Another improvement is making Glacier available in all regions.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Also Known As

Amazon Glacier

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.007 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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Sample Customers

King Cpunty, Illumina, Backupify, Nearmap.com, Scribd, Baylor College of Medicine, SoundCloud

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