Here is the solution for data archive, backup, restoring, cost efficient and good retrival
May 02, 2024
Here is the solution for data archive, backup, restoring, cost efficient and good retrival
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 Glacier
Recently we had an incident where we had security breach and data was deleted by the intruders. So our client wanted to have a backup solution where they can backup all their files as they're in banking/financing sector and those data is very crucial to them. For this I suggested them S3 Glacier as most of our deployment is AWS centric only. So we decided to got with S3 Glacier and we are backing up S3 into Glacier. With this the cost is also reduced to save objects.
- We can setup the triggers and lifecycle process of objects to archive or backup to Glacier from S3 buckets.
- Easy to integrate with other AWS services and access with keys
- Till now we have only tested the backup restoring process with less data but it is fast and easy
- Cost efficient when we compare with other vendors
- Sometime due to slow drives there are operation failure noticed by us in testing
- Cost of restoring data is high and if you have regular restoring them it is not good option and slow as well.
- While we were setting up the system we took some support from AWS and in many cases their answers were not up to the mark.
- With this now we are storing data for less cost as compare to what we were paying earlier
- Increased the data access limits
We only compared the costs but as most of our machines and services are AWS centric and final call was with client so they decided to go with AWS Glacier only.
Do you think Amazon S3 Glacier delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon S3 Glacier's feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon S3 Glacier live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon S3 Glacier go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon S3 Glacier again?
Yes