Great Storage Alternative to AWS
Updated April 19, 2019
Great Storage Alternative to AWS
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud Storage
We currently use Google Cloud Storage on the I.T. operations side. Our end users all use Google Drive as their primary storage. On the operations side, we use it for the long-term storage of critical information. We also keep data in Google Cloud Storage long-term for servers (physical, virtual, cloud) that have been retired. Archiving data in Google Cloud Storage allows us to eliminate physical media.
- Archiving data long-term.
- Providing quick access to data.
- Higher performance backups.
- It would help if it were easier to mount Google Cloud Storage.
- Costs could be lower.
- I would like to see a way to archive physical server data to Google Cloud Storage without first sucking the entire server up into the Google Cloud.
- The elimination of physical media for long-term storage has been a huge win.
- The ability to create a new VM but attach long-term storage is particularly helpful in the inevitable instance of a user needing something.
- Day-to-day backups are much more efficient.
- Amazon Glacier and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
We ended up with Google Cloud Storage most importantly because we found it far easier to set up, configure, and operate compared to Amazon's offerings. Amazon's many products make it difficult to find just the right one, and from there configuring is overly complicated. In addition, we were already operating a few servers in the Google Cloud Platform.