Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier

34 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon S3 Glacier	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.	$0 Per GB Per Month

Pricing

Amazon S3 Glacier

Editions & Modules

Bulk Retrieval Pricing: $0.0025
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Storage Pricing: $0.004
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Retrieval Pricing: $0.01
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Expedited Retrieval Pricing: $0.03
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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon S3 Glacier
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Amazon S3 Glacier
Considered Both Products	Amazon S3 Glacier Verified User Engineer Chose Amazon S3 Glacier 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. Incentivized Helpful? PP Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose Amazon S3 Glacier Amazon Glacier isn't a direct competitor to the products I've listed; it could compare to the clouds/data warehouses each of these products use to store their data. In the case of CloudBerry, Amazon Glacier is used with it to create a complete archival backup system. That … Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Cauwels DevOps Engineer Chose Amazon S3 Glacier Glacier is convenient with systems already on AWS and cheaper than S3 for data that needs to be accessed infrequently. A great tool for any team to use that has a legacy system or data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Amazon S3 Glacier Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having another third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Stockamp Principal Systems Administrator Chose Amazon S3 Glacier The other alternatives for us would involve moving objects out of S3 to some other object storage services, which would generate a lot of network traffic, or keep the objects on more expensive storage. Incentivized Helpful? Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Chose Amazon S3 Glacier It is significantly cheaper than other services, however, it is because it actually is a slightly different service. The other services we've tried allow live reading/writing of data as needed, whereas Glacier is a "cold storage" service. So essentially your choice ends up … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Low cost Pro Storing data Pro Unlimited storage
Top Cons	Minus Not cloud Minus 3rd party Minus Billing system

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User Ratings
	Amazon S3 Glacier
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (8 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon S3 Glacier
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS If your organization has a lot of archival data that it needs to be backed up for safekeeping, where it won't be touched except in a dire emergency, Amazon Glacier is perfect. In our case, we had a client that generates many TB of video and photo data at annual events and wanted to retain ALL of it, pre- and post- edit for potential use in a future museum. Using the Snowball device, we were able to move hundreds of TB of existing media data that was previously housed on multiple Thunderbolt drives, external RAIDs, etc, in an organized manner, to Amazon Glacier. Then, we were able to setup CloudBerry Backup on their production computers to continually backup any new media that they generated during their annual events. Incentivized PP Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Cheap storage of backup data. Can be used as a part of the entire suite of tools from Amazon, without requiring you to leave the familiar stack. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Amazon AWS It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having another third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in money and time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS We seldom need to access our data in Glacier; this means that it is a fraction of the cost of S3, including the infrequent-access storage class. Transitioning data to Glacier is managed by AWS. We don't need our engineers to build or maintain log pipelines. Configuring lifecycle policies for S3 and Glacier is simple; it takes our engineers very little time, and there is little risk of errant configuration. Incentivized Gavin Hackeling Data Scientist Read full review
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