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Attribute Ratings
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
- Macrium Reflect is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
Amazon S3
92%
66 Ratings
10.0
Macrium Reflect
100%
2 Ratings
Usability
7.7
Amazon S3
77%
10 Ratings
Macrium Reflect
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
9.7
Amazon S3
97%
38 Ratings
9.0
Macrium Reflect
90%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is a great service to safely backup your data where redundancy is guaranteed and the cost is fair. We use Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by Amazon S3.Transferring data into Amazon S3 is free but transferring data out has an associated, albeit low, cost per GB. This needs to be kept in mind if you plan on transferring out a lot of data frequently. There may be other cost effective options although Amazon S3 prices are really low per GB. Transferring 150TB would cost approximately $50 per month.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 1-10 employeesMacrium Reflect
The free version of Macrium Reflect is licensed for both commercial and personal use. It works well on MS Windows computers, but cannot back up servers, where a paid version is required. The free version does full and differential backups, but not incremental as do the paid versions. If a large volume of files are added every day, a paid version would be more suitable as it supports incremental backups.The Macrium Reflect server version is very suitable for backing up physical servers.
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
SecureMyFirmInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Pros
Amazon S3
- Fantastic developer API, including AWS command line and library utilities.
- Strong integration with the AWS ecosystem, especially with regards to access permissions.
- It's astoundingly stable- you can trust it'll stay online and available for anywhere in the world.
- Its static website hosting feature is a hidden gem-- it provides perhaps the cheapest, most stable, most high-performing static web hosting available in PaaS.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesMacrium Reflect
- Virtualize images to restore services
- Mount backup images to restore files
- Takes incremental backups pretty quick compared to other software
- Creates synthetic full images well

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 201-500 employeesCons
Amazon S3
- Web console can be very confusing and challenging to use, especially for new users
- Bucket policies are very flexible, but the composability of the security rules can be very confusing to get right, often leading to security rules in use on buckets other than what you believe they are
Head of Engineering
Jock MKTComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Macrium Reflect
- Capability to create an image file to restore directly to a cloud computer
- Use a different default naming pattern for backup files
- Support for Linux
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
SecureMyFirmInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon S3
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Macrium Reflect
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Usability
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 7.7
Based on 10 answers
It is tricky to get it all set up correctly with policies and getting the IAM settings right. There is also a lot of lifecycle config you can do in terms of moving data to cold/glacier storage. It is also not to be confused with being a OneDrive or SharePoint replacement, they each have their own place in our environment, and S3 is used more by the IT team and accessed by our PHP applications. It is not necessarily used by an average everyday user for storing their pictures or documents, etc.
IT Systems & Telephony Administrator
Ignite Travel GroupAirlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees
Macrium Reflect
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 9.7
Based on 38 answers
AWS has always been quick to resolve any support ticket raised. S3 is no exception. We have only ever used it once to get a clarification regarding the costs involved when data is transferred between S3 and other AWS services or the public internet. We got a response from AWS support team within a day.

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Engineer in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employeesMacrium Reflect
Macrium Reflect 9.0
Based on 1 answer
We have not been opening tickets for support from Macrium at the moment, only for licencing issues, but good attention and fast response by the support team. They respond pretty fast to our emails and fixed our issues giving us a good explanation of our case without any complications. Due to the good functionality of the software we have not opened a ticket for support in years.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 201-500 employeesAlternatives Considered
Amazon S3
Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 11-50 employeesMacrium Reflect
Veeam offers Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, a product we also install and use. It compares favorably with Macrium Reflect; however, for small firms and individual wanting an added cloud backup of their full hard drive, Macrium wins out in requiring less cloud storage space by a significant margin.ShadowProtect is a rock solid competitor with a higher price and no free version. It is highly dependable, but more complicated to install and set up.The number of technical issues and quality of technical support have ruled out Acronis products.MSP360 Backup has impressive technology, but we encountered issues with restore times and full drive image restores.
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
SecureMyFirmInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon S3
- It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
- The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
- If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Macrium Reflect
- Improved our time on backups
- More secure backups of our databases

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 201-500 employees