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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Zipware

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
Zipware
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Zipware is simple and free zip software for Microsoft Windows that supports all major archiving formats including the new RAR5 format. Zipware has been designed to be simple, fast and stable to handle both small and large archives with millions of files. Zipware also supports many Linux archive formats such as tar and gzip. Zipware is freeware for personal and commercial use.N/A
Pricing
Amazon S3 GlacierZipware
Editions & Modules
Bulk Retrieval Pricing
$0.0025
Per GB Per Month
Storage Pricing
$0.004
Per GB Per Month
Retrieval Pricing
$0.01
Per GB Per Month
Expedited Retrieval Pricing
$0.03
Per GB Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon S3 GlacierZipware
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon S3 GlacierZipware
Considered Both Products
Amazon S3 Glacier
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
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 …
Dylan Cauwels | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
Jeff Stockamp | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
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 …
Zipware

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User Ratings
Amazon S3 GlacierZipware
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Usability
6.0
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User Testimonials
Amazon S3 GlacierZipware
Likelihood to Recommend
As described in the use case, it is perfect for backup data storage where you do not expect to retrieve the data often. Think of it as a data dump; it is nice to know you have a backup, but it actually is expensive and somewhat difficult to retrieve everything.
Rytis Slatkevičius | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros
  • Glacier is an inexpensive solution to the problem of storing rarely-accessed data for years.
  • You can configure S3 buckets to transition objects to Glacier with a few clicks.
  • It is easy to get started with Glacier; there is little learning curve and few concepts to familiarize yourself with.
Gavin Hackeling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gavin Hackeling
Data Scientist
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Cons
  • Billing system isn't the smoothest to operate
  • Recalling information from glacier can run slow depending on type of data
  • Customer support
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire.
Rytis Slatkevičius | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered
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 said, when using Amazon Glacier along with a product like CloudBerry, you can create a reliable, inexpensive cloud backup system for retaining HUGE quantities of data for much less than these other cloud backup solutions. HOWEVER, if you want to restore said data, the cost and complexity begin to become a major concern, so Amazon Glacier should only be considered in situations where you don't plan to touch the data regularly, if at all, once it's at Glacier.
PP
Patrick Plaisance
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
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Return on Investment
  • With this now we are storing data for less cost as compare to what we were paying earlier
  • Increased the data access limits
Verified User
Anonymous
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