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AWS Storage Gateway vs. Azure Blob Storage, with Azure Data Lake Storage

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Storage Gateway

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAWS Storage Gateway hybrid cloud storage connects on-premise resources to the AWS Cloud and integrates with AWS storage and archiving services to create a backup and recovery solution.

    $0.01

    Per GB

    Azure Blob Storage

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAzure Blob Storage is Microsoft Azure’s object storage service for storing and accessing large volumes of unstructured data. Organizations use it for application content, backups and archives, media, logs, data exports, machine learning datasets, high-performance computing workloads, and data-lake storage. NOTE: Azure Data Lake Storage, also known as Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, is not a separate service or account type. It is a set of big-data analytics capabilities within Azure Blob Storage…

    $0.01

    per GB/per month

    Pricing
    AWS Storage GatewayAzure Blob Storage
    Editions & Modules
    Data Written
    $0.01
    Per GB
    Block Blobs
    $0.0081
    per GB/per month
    Azure Data Lake Storage
    $0.0081
    per GB/per month
    Files
    $0.058
    per GB/per month
    Managed Discs
    $1.54
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Storage GatewayAzure Blob Storage
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AWS Storage GatewayAzure Blob Storage
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
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    User Ratings
    AWS Storage GatewayAzure Blob Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS Storage GatewayAzure Blob Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    The AWS Storage Gateway is well suited if you want a quick way to off load your backups to the cloud to eliminate the need of a offsite storage location for physical tapes. The ROI is quite good from that perspective since you can utilize Glacier storage for the virtual tapes. The AWS Storage Gateway is not well suited if data sets being backed up is very large. The lack of de-duplication will add time to your backup. It will also increase the egress charges
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    Microsoft
    In Azure, it is the storage to use, and in my view, the Blob Storage offers more, or finer-grained configuration options, than S3. So my recommendation would be to check in detail what is offered. As the Blob Storage is more or less a Microsoft exclusive product, the "interoperability" is more limited than, for example, with S3. The S3 is more widely adopted, and if you cannot exclude a migration scenario from one cloud provider to another, additional effort is needed.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Easy to deploy: Setting the solution up took much less time than anticipated.
    • AWS management Console facilitates monitoring: This allowed us to ditch a home baked solution in lieu this great tool!
    • Secure data transfer: Easily passing our company audits and standards for security.
    • VM integration
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    Microsoft
    • The data lake analytics tool is good and provides loads of computing power to speed up the processing time.
    • It provides unlimited storage for structured, semi-structured or unstructured data.
    • Cloud-based service and we can easily use it for ETL and ELT processes.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Ease of finding useful helpful tips on using AWS
    • Dumbing down of the technical jargon on the site
    • Short sharp to the point step videos - answering some common questions
    • Remembering not everyone is an IT person - could be more user friendly
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    Microsoft
    • study for the certifications also to have them as a reference for work when you have any questions about applying a configuration to the equipment.
    • The Internet interface is simple and easy to use. Capacity is good and it's good that HP continues to innovate with this technology
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Storage Gateway is a good product and for certain use cases works really well, however i would like to see it support additional protocols in the future.
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    Microsoft
    Blob storage is fairly simple, with several different options/settings that can be configured. The file explorer has enhanced its usability. Some areas could be improved, such as providing more details or stats on how many times a file has been accessed. It is an obvious choice if you're already using Azure/Entra.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Storage Gateway is supported by the AWS Support team, they provide excellent support and great SLAs for our needs.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft has improved its customer service standpoint over the years. The ability to chat with an issue, get a callback, schedule a call or work with an architecture team(for free) is a huge plus. I can get mentorship and guidance on where to go with my environment without pushy sales tactics. This is very refreshing. Typically support can get me to where I need to be on the first contact, which is also nice.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Storage Gateway performance is ever excellent since we deployed it in our company. Downloading this platform and installing the setup is easy as compared to other similar products. Virtual data that we get from our cloud servers [are] good in the enhancement of better planning and safety [compliance]. I have been able to integrate the data from our server to our systems to streamline workflow and boost performance.
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    Microsoft
    Azure Premium Blob offers better latency than competitors. It works best with the Azure ecosystem, and competitors lack it. Azure Blob even stands out in storage durability, providing up to 16 nines. It can have various use cases that can suit all the organisation's needs. The Azure Blob solution can also be deployed on-premises.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It has positively affected us for ETL on reports to customers that neither party wants to pay too much for.
    • It has also positively affected us where our backup systems where old and had large maintenance costs.
    • It has some new, net negative impact with slowed down delivery or random slowing incidents.
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    Microsoft
    • Data Migration projects from relational sources to Azure Data Lake Storage have given a great ROI, thanks to the less running costs, and High availability
    • Pretty easy to work with in terms of Managing and accessing Data in containerized fashion.
    • Further features like Archival of data which is accessed less frequently can significantly reduce cost
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