Amazon S3 Glacier vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Public Cloud Storage Services category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 17.7% mindshare in PCSS, compared to NetApp’s 6.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Amazon S3 Glacier

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Amazon S3 Glacier and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are both prominent solutions for cloud storage. While Amazon S3 Glacier is preferred for its simpler pricing and support, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP seems to be worth the price due to its robust feature set.

Features: Amazon S3 Glacier is highly praised for its data archiving and retrieval, scalability, and low-cost options for long-term data storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP receives positive feedback for data management capabilities, integration with cloud environments, and comprehensive data protection. It stands out due to its ability to manage data efficiently across hybrid cloud environments.

Room for Improvement: Amazon S3 Glacier could improve retrieval times and add more integrations with other services. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could enhance its user interface, simplify initial setup, and improve usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon S3 Glacier is noted for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, while offering a comprehensive setup process, may require more time and expertise. Users find Amazon’s customer support efficient, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP’s support provides detailed technical assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon S3 Glacier’s pricing model is simple and cost-effective for long-term storage, providing good ROI for archiving needs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is more expensive, but the investment is justified with its in-depth features and high ROI in managing complex data environments.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3 Glacier

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Cloud Backup (9th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 Glacier is 17.7%, up from 15.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 6.9%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

ArunDhwaj

Technical Owner at Harman International

Versatile data storage improves security and supports increasing data volumes

Amazon S3 Glacier offers robust security features and practically infinite storage, where we can store all kinds of media swiftly. It supports various data types, including semi-structured and raw formats. These features facilitate log management and data dumping since the service is versatile enough to handle large volumes of data and provide necessary security.

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Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at Evolent Health

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We like that the price is cheaper."

"The most valuable feature of Glacier is its storage capability and cost benefit."

"The biggest advantage of the product is that AWS always copies the tool internally."

"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."

"AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything."

"It is the most feature-rich platform."

"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."

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"The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule."

"Multiprotocol is the most valuable because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data from Linux and from Windows clients. That was our value proposition for CVO, Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage."

"Its features help us to have a backup of our volumes using the native technology of NetApp ONTAP. That way, we don't have to invest in other solutions for our backup requirement. Also, it helps us to replicate the data to another geographic location so that helps us to save on the costs of backup products."

"ONTAP's snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are pretty useful in recovering your data from a time in a snapshot. That's pretty useful for when you have an event where a disaster struck and then you need to recover all your data. It's pretty helpful and pretty fast in those terms."

"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."

"The main benefit we get from this product is the ability to deploy it anywhere we want, whether that's on-prem, a remote physical location, or in the cloud. It doesn't matter from an operational perspective where it is. The command line and operating system are the same."

"Its functionality and technical support are adequate to help prevent failure due to errors."

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Cons

"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."

"There is room for improvement in terms of support"

"The product could be improved in terms of the customer support team's response times."

"They should increase the data limit for the free version or reduce the price."

"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."

"Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand."

"I am unsure if the product provides good integration capabilities. From an improvement perspective, I want the tool to provide easier integration features."

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"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."

"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP should improve its support."

"I would like this solution to be brought to all the three major players. Right now it's supported only on AWS and Azure. They should bring it to Google as well, because we would like to have flexibility in choosing the underlying cloud storage provider."

"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."

"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."

"How it handles erasure coding. I feel it the improvement should be there. Basically, it should be seamless. You don't want to have an underlying hardware issue or something, then suddenly there's no reads or writes. Luckily, it's at a replication site, so our main production site is still working and writing to it. But, the replication site has stopped right now while we try to bring that node back. Since we implemented in bare-metal, not in appliance, we had to go back to the original vendor. They didn't send it in time, and we had a hardware memory issue. Then, we had a hard disk issue, which brought the node down physically."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is very cheap."

"I've operated with Amazon S3 Glacier in two modes. Firstly, there's the trial mode, where I experimented with the platform, learned its functionalities, and applied it to my work. Secondly, there's the corporate account mode, where my team handles the operations, and I receive billing reports."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is expensive."

"We pay a monthly licensing fee for Amazon S3 Glacier."

"Customers prefer Amazon S3 Glacier because it is a cheap and pay-as-you-go solution."

"The pricing must be improved."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cost-effective solution for archiving."

"The solution is cost-effective."

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"We purchased the product directly from NetApp."

"If we wanted to use the AWS solution, we would have to manage two or three different platforms and pay more money than what we should have to pay, as some of the features don't even exist. If we wanted to, we could use AWS cloning, but it is useless because it uses more space, is more expensive, and takes more time."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"The cost is quite high."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

"Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have."

"It is expensive. There are no costs in addition to their standard licensing fees."

"If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

31%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

51%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Amazon's S3 Glacier or EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon's S3 Glacier or Elastic Block Store data storage software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Amazon's S3 Glacier, whi...

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What do you like most about Amazon S3 Glacier?

I like creating buckets where data can be segregated at a high level and then routing the appropriate data to each designated bucket. In terms of value, I would say that the tool gets the job done ...

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What needs improvement with Amazon S3 Glacier?

The cost of retrieval in Glacier is quite high. It would be excellent if Amazon could work on reducing retrieval costs. Another improvement is making Glacier available in all regions.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Also Known As

Amazon Glacier

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.007 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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Sample Customers

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