We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon S3 Glacier is a stable and scalable solution."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"It is the most feature-rich platform."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"The solution’s storage management is good and dynamic. The product is highly stable. The solution is highly scalable. The customer service and support is good. The initial setup is straightforward. I recommend the solution."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is scalable, flexible, easy to maintain and handle."
"We use the solution for migration."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"They should increase the data limit for the free version or reduce the price."
"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"They can improve data discovery."
"I would like to see improved storage capacity and enhanced security features for better protection."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 21st in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 Glacier writes "A cost-effective solution to reduce storage and cost footprint". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Wasabi and Amazon S3, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS. See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. IBM SoftLayer report.
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