We performed a comparison between AWS Snowball and Carbonite Migrate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Migration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You are able to scale the solution vertically. It's very scalable."
"The most valuable features of AWS Snowball for me are its security measures and its flexibility."
"It's a nice way of shipping a lot of data without using a network."
"The way the data is moved is very clever. Also, the interface is very simple and user-friendly."
"Carbonite Migrate works well in Windows platform migrations and in the case of a VML platform. The migration is smooth in Windows environments."
"Carbonite Migrate is helpful on an infrastructure level."
"It's not an easy product to start using for a beginner, but If you're a professional, it's easy to understand."
"I think AWS Snowball could improve by expanding its availability to more countries."
"The stability of the solution isn't ideal and should be improved."
"It would be helpful if Snowball provided more kinds of connectivity. That will make it easier to add and move data."
"We find it very difficult to use these tools in a multi-cloud environment"
"Migration in RHEL and Linux environments can be improved. During RHEL migration with multiple data areas, you have to create a similar source environment at the destination. This can be challenging because you have to install it, create the VM, install over it, and mount it at the mount point. Only then can you do the migration."
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AWS Snowball is ranked 12th in Cloud Migration with 5 reviews while Carbonite Migrate is ranked 16th in Cloud Migration. AWS Snowball is rated 9.0, while Carbonite Migrate is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of AWS Snowball writes "Excellent for handling large-scale data transfers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Carbonite Migrate writes "Great tool for one-to-one migration, but not suitable for multi-cloud migration". AWS Snowball is most compared with Microsoft Azure Data Box, Google Transfer Appliance, IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration, Palantir Foundry and AWS Snowball Edge, whereas Carbonite Migrate is most compared with Nutanix Move, AWS Migration Hub, Oracle Zero Downtime Migration and AWS Application Migration Service. See our AWS Snowball vs. Carbonite Migrate report.
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