Amazon S3 Glacier vs NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud 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 8.8, while NetApp is ranked #20. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 10.9% mindshare in PCSS, compared to NetApp’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Amazon S3 Glacier and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud compete in the cloud storage category. Users find Amazon S3 Glacier more affordable and robust in support, while NetApp Cloud Volumes Service's features justify its higher cost for many users.

Features: Amazon S3 Glacier is praised for its cost-effective long-term storage, archival capabilities, and robust support. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is valued for its high performance, scalability, and integrated data management features. NetApp’s richer feature set often outweighs the budget-friendly focus of Amazon S3 Glacier.

Room for Improvement: Amazon S3 Glacier users note the need for faster retrieval options, more flexible pricing plans, and enhanced customer support. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud users suggest improvements in integration with third-party applications, enhanced documentation, and better initial configuration processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon S3 Glacier deployment is often noted as straightforward, with users appreciating responsive customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud deployment is also user-friendly, though it may require more initial configuration. Customer service for NetApp is highly rated for its technical support and guidance, giving it an edge.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon S3 Glacier stands out for its low setup costs, making it an attractive option for budget-conscious organizations. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service's higher cost is often justified by users through its superior ROI, driven by performance and feature set. The choice between the two often hinges on budget versus performance priorities.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3 Glacier

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

20th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (25th), Cloud Storage (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 Glacier is 10.9%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is 1.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Public Cloud Storage Services Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon S3 Glacier	10.9%
NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud	1.7%
Other	87.4%

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Pat Fogarty

Project Engineer at Astellas Pharma US

Archiving data has reduced storage costs and provides reliable long‑term retention

We have not really come across any downsides for us. It is possible that the retrieval of data may be expensive, which could be an issue, but we have not experienced that in fairness. Integration with our policies would be beneficial. We have policies for our systems where we delete data after a certain number of years, and having integration with Amazon S3 Glacier would be good. Having a guarantee that Amazon S3 Glacier would persist for the amount of time that we require in our archives would be valuable. In other words, Amazon would need to commit to support for the period we need. We could be talking about 20 years or longer. We cannot always move to the next version because we need to maintain old systems and legacy systems in order to maintain archives. A guarantee around support would be a good thing to have.

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Colin Constable

Co-Founder at Atsign

Enables us to fine-tune storage and capacity on the fly as our needs grow or shrink over time

NetApp delivers High Availability. It's critical to our work. That was the main driver for using NetApp. We have a highly resilient service and if you have a highly resilient service, you are only as resilient as the least resilient part of your infrastructure. That's what we were having trouble with our file system before. It was becoming troublesome, so we needed to find something that was much more highly resilient so that's why we moved to NetApp. The complexity of moving large numbers of files to the cloud depends on what you're trying to do. But for us, it was really simple. I imagine for large enterprise customers it is probably pretty tricky. They're probably on all different technologies inside a large corporation and they may or may not have very large pipes going to them. So if you're in a data center to the cloud then it's going to be easy, but if you have hundreds of branches like if you're a bank and have lots of branch banks, they might have very small pipes out to the internet. It might take forever. In our use case everything's brand new files, so it was pretty trivial. We didn't migrate to the cloud, we were already on the cloud, so it was a nonissue for us. NetApp enables us to share data across VMs. It actually reduced the amount of data storage we need. We were having to have storage attached to each VM. And now we can aggregate that storage across multiple VMs, so that actually gave us a net reduction, which was a good thing. We switched from using block storage to file storage to share data between our VMs. It made it easier, frankly but I worry about the scalability in the future. For the moment it made life easier. We were using block and then we moved back to file with NetApp.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."

"In terms of features, no other cloud solutions or private installations come close to its capabilities."

"Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."

"The reliability of storage is the main benefit."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly stable solution."

"The solution is great for storing data you don't usually need access to, it's also well-integrated with Amazon S3."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is very simple and very easy to implement, with extensive AWS documentation and a free tier that lets you test a minimum solution in their environment before putting it into production or making a big purchase."

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"In terms of its storage snapshot efficiencies, the service is highly efficient. We are only doing things in small batches right now because we have not converted all of the data, but we have tested them in the Google Cloud and they work efficiently."

"High availability is very important to us because we have a production environment. High availability is the highest priority for us to continue keeping our systems running."

"It is a good service for high availability that is very easy to configure."

"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero. I was personally running all the infrastructure for the company. Now that we've moved to NetApp, I don't have to worry about making sure it's up and running. It's made my life personally much better."

"Overall, they have very impressive technologies."

"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero."

Cons

"Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out."

"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 technical support has room for improvement."

"The cost of retrieval in Glacier is quite high."

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

"The cost can be lower."

"The response times could be faster. When you are with Amazon and use Glacier, you expect a response time between four to seven hours to retrieve the data."

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"The user interface has room for improvement. We would like this service to be more integrated with Azure, which is very easy to manage and use. It was easy to create volumes and add capacity pools in Azure, but in Google Cloud, we can only create separate volumes. We need more management or configuration options in the user interface."

"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those."

"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features. So it would be nice if I heard a little bit more from him. From a technology perspective, I have no complaints."

"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those. They're not using any AI tools, currently, on the administrative side."

"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features."

"The user interface has room for improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon S3 Glacier is much cheaper than competing products."

"I've operated with Amazon S3 Glacier in two modes. Firstly, there's the trial mode, where I experimented with the platform, learned its functionalities, and applied it to my work. Secondly, there's the corporate account mode, where my team handles the operations, and I receive billing reports."

"The product is very cheap."

"The product is cheap."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is expensive."

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

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

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cost-effective solution for archiving."

More Amazon S3 Glacier pricing and cost advice

"We don't need so much space, and there is no option to pay as we go or use just what we need. Also, the only way to increase performance is by increasing the level of the service."

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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider

11%

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Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	15

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Questions from the Community

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

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What do you like most about Amazon S3 Glacier?

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Also Known As

Amazon Glacier

CVS for Google Cloud, NetApp CVS for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for GCP, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for GCP

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 for Google Cloud is a fully managed or self-managed file service that is integrated into Google Cloud with the multiprotocol support, performance, and availability required to run business-critical applications. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.

Use cases. Customers can use the service to migrate existing enterprise applications to Google Cloud. Other use cases include hybrid deployments, multicloud mobility, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, container storage, and more.

Features. Multiple performance tiers, standard file interfaces, advanced data management, metered service, fully managed service, native service experience, integrated support, and integrated billing.

For more information:

NetApp: https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes-service-for-gcp

Google: https://cloud.google.com/netapp

NetApp

Sample Customers

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

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