We performed a comparison between Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier, and Microsoft Azure Block Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"The solution is easy to use for anyone with minimal technical knowledge."
"The most valuable features are VNet, virtual machines, and Elastic Kubernetes Service."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon S3 is its versioning feature. I also like that you can create pre-signed URLs on the solution."
"The stability is very good."
"Enables content sharing by multiple users."
"We've had no issues with stability."
"Set up a performance and stress-based test suite to measure the endurance of a web application on Amazon AWS cloud system using S3 as the back-end storage infrastructure."
"We like that the price is cheaper."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"It is the most feature-rich platform."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly stable solution."
"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"It has easy versioning. The versioning is amenable to any changes. It also has great security. It can only be accessed through an API, and only the requested users can access it. It is optimized for data lakes and comprehensive data management."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage is an easy-to-use tool as it has a lot of APIs and libraries, making it a very easy product to get started with for a user."
"We can use Azure Block Storage for some of our bigger files."
"This is a very stable solution."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"One can easily scale with this program."
"It is easy to integrate with applications."
"We have used the support from Amazon S3. The support is expensive and could be reduced."
"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."
"The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."
"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."
"Technical support could have a faster response time."
"The console could be improved - it's not very user friendly for non-technical guys."
"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."
"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."
"Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out."
"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The stability must be improved."
"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."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement. Microsoft Azure Block Storage is priced higher than alternative solutions."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage's stability needs improvement."
"Customer support could be improved, it can be difficult getting appropriate support."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve the SFTP. The SFTP can be used for exchanging data between two parties and it works but Microsoft is new to this market and they could be a lot better in this area with its features."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage should improve its stability."
"Improving the pricing structure would be beneficial."
"It should be easier to deploy."
"The tool could be cheaper."
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