Amazon S3 Glacier Reviews & Product Details - Page 7

Simply the best thing about Amazon S3 Glacier is the cost at only $0.004 per GB a month. When I used this service, it was critical to have offsite backups of sensitive data. We decided to put our archival data in deep glacial storage. On the rare occations we needed to pull a file it took about 12 hours to retrieve, not unreasonable to deep glacial storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using deep glacial, there is no option to pay for expedited service. If there was ever a file we needed to pull off the AWS storage network it could become an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon S3 Glacier service is a storage Service that archives/Backup data for longer-term(Years) at a low cost. Data retrieval is also very cost effective depends on options of time standard or bulk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Use Amazon Glacier Deep Archive for storing data for an extended period, more cost-effective than S3 Glacier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing, Availability, Lifecycle Management Options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No dislikes, S3 Glacier is a simple cloud storage option that performs just as it has to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple, Easy & Cost Effective Storage for Archive Data. I have nearly 12 TB of client data stored in Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive and it costs only around $12 / month, which is something really super.

This is the best storage system for archival data in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although a bucket policy would easily transition files to a different Tier, manual selection and transferring to Glacier Deep Archive is a chore especially when there are 1000's of files.

Also, if filtering on the console was more powerful, it would be really nice to select files to transition or for any other operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With AWS you know your data is safe.

Cost is really competitive, the more data you store the biggest discount you will get with AWS

Customer service is fast and very good you have questions or need help relatively fast.

Pulling your data from AWS is really easy as well and IAM roles it very easy to pull your data into EC2 environment when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For larger amounts of data moving into the s3 Glacier is not as friendly as you would like. But there are plenty of articles and videos to show you how to do this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Extremely low cost. Most major cloud storage providers don't compete in this field.

* Easy web interface.

* Glacier is fantastic for its unique approach and realistic prices.

* The name Amazon provides a lot of peace of mind

* Glacier is an inexpensive solution to the problem of storing rarely-accessed data for years.

* It helps the organization to back up at a very low cost.

* Easy to implement, especially if you're using S3 lifecycle policies.

* Easy to obtain large amounts of data by hard drive. Simply send in a USB attached hard drive, they'll copy the data to it, and return it by overnight carrier.

* Encrypted upload and encrypted storage option.

* Great solution for off-site storage of long-term archives and cold storage. Simple to use and an incredibly cheap solution.

* Excellent security and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Accessing data stored in Glacier is slow. That shouldn't be a surprise, but it is undesirable nonetheless.

* While data storage is cheap and easy, data retrieval can be expensive as you only get a download quota that is a few percent of your storage.

* Recalling information from glacier can run slow depending on the type of data

* Requires third-party client Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S3 glacier allow for long term retention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S3 glacier is not necessarily compatible out of the box with all technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

speed and organize way..also quickly able retrieve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Should reduce the cost of IO when transferring the data to glacier archives. Its expensive I believe. When the transfer is between AWS resources the cost should be minimal or negligible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S3 glacier is very good, scalable and secure data archive storage with no up-front commitments. Its very cheap service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I didn't find any disadvantages of s3 glacier. The only thing I didn't like is that it take longer time to retrieve data after creating request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can store files on the basis of urgency. So, it helps in saving the money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For cost effective options, retrivel time is too much. This must be reduced to either one or two hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.