We use the solution for storage. We store photos, attachments, and different objects.
Scrum Master at Inalpie Enterprise
An easy-to-use solution for data storage with an easy setup
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon S3 Glacier is easy to use. The platform is straightforward, and the interfaces are user-friendly and responsive. Even with a limited budget, you can train someone without an AWS certification to use it. With on-the-job training, you can ensure they understand what needs to be done to use the service."
- "The cost can be lower."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
You need a strategic approach. You also need to consider the technical abilities of the person utilizing the platform to fully understand it.
Some things are learned as you use the platform. You need to consider what you want to store, how long you will store it, and its usefulness. You need to have a proper storage plan. While understanding the platform is crucial, you must also understand the business side because you must pay for the licenses and storage you use. It's about balancing the technical and business aspects of the tool.
What is most valuable?
Amazon S3 Glacier is easy to use. The platform is straightforward, and the interfaces are user-friendly and responsive. Even with a limited budget, you can train someone without an AWS certification to use it. With on-the-job training, you can ensure they understand what needs to be done to use the service.
What needs improvement?
The cost can be lower. Sometimes, users may access the platform, advertise it, and then receive a bill they cannot afford. It would be helpful if there were a policy where a budget owner could understand the costs associated with storing data and approve expenditures based on the project budget. Due to the retrieval options, SMMEs may be ignorant of the costs and cannot afford the platform.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable.
I rate the solution’s stability as ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's pretty scalable. Yeah, it has potential if you have a demand, and they can meet it. They are perfect on their end, but you must also protect your infrastructure and data. There are some shortfalls or pitfalls that you need to ensure that you cover.
I rate the solution's scalability as ten out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward because you use their dashboard and user interface. As long as you subscribe, it's easy to set up.
You need to comply with the requirements and ensure that you understand what it is that you need to do.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product is expensive. They price you as you use it.
What other advice do I have?
It works perfectly if you start to chat. You learn these things as you use it because it involves technical ability, pricing, and ensuring that you comply with government requirements.
Despite the speed limitations, the Amazon S3 Glacier performs well. As long as you have a network and store your data within your region, the data centers within EMA are quite responsive regarding data retrieval.
Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Manager, Security Operations Centre at Phillips Consulting Limited
Provides good on-premises data storage and high availability
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
- "The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
What is our primary use case?
I used the solution for firewall configuration and to configure rules and permissions.
What is most valuable?
Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution. The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 Glacier is the on-premises data storage.
What needs improvement?
The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon S3 Glacier for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the solution nine and a half out of ten for stability.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is very straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
It takes less than five minutes to spin off a server. When it comes to deployment, the solution's deployment is faster over the cloud.
What other advice do I have?
Amazon S3 Glacier is a cloud-based solution. Around five engineers are needed for the solution's deployment and maintenance. It is easy to integrate Amazon S3 Glacier with other solutions. I would recommend the solution to other users.
Overall, I rate Amazon S3 Glacier nine and a half out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Head of IT at Broadway Gaming Ltd.
Highly recommended solution with dynamic storage management
Pros and Cons
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for storing file objects.
What is most valuable?
The solution’s storage management is good and dynamic.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for the past year. I’m currently using the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is highly stable. I rate it a perfect ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is highly scalable. Not individual users, but a specific application is using it within our company. I rate its scalability a perfect ten.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support is good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. With a couple of clicks, you can set up the solution. First, create the S3 bucket and then get the URI. Our DevOps team mostly deals with this area.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We don't pay for licenses. We pay based on consumption data, considering how much data is stored.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend the solution. It's an effective native solution. It should be the first choice for storing files in AWS. Overall, I rate the solution a perfect ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Chief Business Officer at Couture.ai
Easy to scale, offers free credits, and good overall stability
Pros and Cons
- "We get free credits from Amazon, and we like the overall stability. We haven't had to rely heavily on their customer success teams, which is a good sign."
- "Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out."
What is our primary use case?
We're a tech company, so we use a variety of solutions, but S3 Glacier is what we currently use for the database.
We use it both internally for our own projects and our clients. We host some projects on Azure and AWS, depending on client requirements.
It's mostly used by enterprises for hosting various solutions.
What is most valuable?
We get free credits from Amazon, and we like the overall stability. We haven't had to rely heavily on their customer success teams, which is a good sign.
With hyperscalers like Amazon, things are generally pretty smooth. As long as the product is stable, billing is clear, and we don't have issues, we're happy.
What needs improvement?
Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this product for about three years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is easy to scale. That's a major reason we use both Azure and AWS. They're very scalable.
We have around 35 end users using this in our company.
How are customer service and support?
When we have to reach out to them, it becomes an issue. They can improve, but we don't need them frequently anyway.
We don't get the right people right away. They connect us to someone who doesn't know, and then it goes in a loop, and we have to be very patient to find the person who can actually solve our problem.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We use Microsoft Azure services. But the usage depends on the client or the purpose.
Some enterprises are typically on Azure, while others prefer AWS. We're cloud-native, so we don't differentiate between the two, but it depends on the client's needs.
What about the implementation team?
My tech team handled it. It was a matter of hours, not days.
One person should be enough.
What was our ROI?
We have seen an ROI. That's why we're using it. We see value in the return; otherwise, we wouldn't continue.
Mainly on the cost side, It's very easy to use, which leads to cost synergies. That's how we look at it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
If it were cheaper, I'd be happier. I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
It is a yearly basis license. There are some other services that are linked with it as well.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Assistant IT Manager at The American Baccalaureate School
The product is easy to use, and data restoration is not complicated, but the stability and pricing must be improved
Pros and Cons
- "The product is easy to use."
- "The stability must be improved."
What is our primary use case?
I work in a school. We have a lot of graphics, videos, pictures, and multimedia data. We use the solution for data backup.
What is most valuable?
The product is easy to use. The restoration is not as complicated as we thought it would be. Thankfully, there hasn't been a situation where we had to recover everything.
What needs improvement?
The stability must be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for almost two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool is stable. I rate the stability a six or seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability depends upon the product’s versions. Generally, the tool is scalable. Currently, we are backing up around 9 to 10 TB of our data.
How are customer service and support?
The support is good. The support team is quite helpful.
How was the initial setup?
We need the vendor’s support during the initial setup. The deployment took about five working days. We had to engage with the vendor and have multiple sessions. We scheduled the deployment and got it done.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We pay a monthly licensing fee. The pricing must be improved. The solution must provide discounts for the education sector.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
An affordable and easy-to-setup product that works as expected
Pros and Cons
- "We save money with the product."
- "A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
What is our primary use case?
We use the product heavily. All our data is stored in it. We are using Delta Lake, which is built on the product. We have started using the solution for an app project. Some files and storage should not be in the hot area. It should go into Glacier. We are looking into some recycling policies.
What is most valuable?
We save money with the product. If some file is not frequently accessed, Glacier helps put things there. It is a fantastic product that works as expected.
What needs improvement?
We had some issues with the product’s stability. A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems. It happened one or two times.
For how long have I used the solution?
I am using the solution right now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The outage issue caused us a little bit of a headache, but it recovered soon, so that's fine.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have a minimum use for the product, but I have confidence about the scalability of Amazon products. Our organization's infrastructure, DevOps, and database teams use the product.
How are customer service and support?
I have not sought support. I have heard the team talking about support. We are on the enterprise level, so support is good. Up until now, we have been happy.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
The engineers, developers, and infrastructure team ensure the platform is good. We are a big company.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is cost-effective.
What other advice do I have?
I like Amazon very much. We are a billion-dollar company, and we use Amazon heavily. We will use the cycle policies to ensure all the files that are not accessed frequently are put somewhere. We are planning a big change in our organization to reboot our data.
We will have more data segmentation by using different buckets. When this transition is finished, we will work more toward the different layers of storage. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Infrastructure Manager/Deployment Manager at Hivedome Consultancy Services
A low-cost backup solution for database backups and disaster recovery
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for long-term backups. We take database backups and synchronize them to Glacier after 30 days. We also use it as part of our disaster recovery.
What is most valuable?
We sync to S3 and transfer to Glacier. It is a slow system in terms of performance. Also, it's cheap. It takes several hours to retrieve data if you need something from it.
There's no storage limit, and the price is excellent.
What needs improvement?
Glacier could provide easy browsing.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon S3 Glacier for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I don't have to monitor the solution.
I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Only I am using this solution.
I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I've used the amazon support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have used Egnyte and switched to Amazon S3 Glacier because it is cheap.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy. I set up a management plan to automatically move old files into Glacier. We already had backups going into S3. So, I configured the system to automatically transfer some of those backups to Glacier storage within minutes.
What about the implementation team?
We did the setup of the solution in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I rate the product’s pricing a one out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Considered whether to archive files before putting them in the cloud.
Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Test Automation Lead at Entrotsust technlogies
Easy to setup, highly scalable and offers good stability
Pros and Cons
- "The reliability of storage is the main benefit."
- "The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for our products, mainly as a source for some data, like a type of S3 bucket.
How has it helped my organization?
It's mostly used for current product data, not archival data. We use it for things like customer demos, training for customers, and also storing large configuration files.
What is most valuable?
The reliability of storage is the main benefit.
What needs improvement?
The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for a couple of years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. It is a very scalable solution.
There are around 50 end users using this solution. We do plan to increase the further usage.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward once you get used to it. It's automated for us now, so in that sense, it's very easy.
What about the implementation team?
We need about ten DevOps guys for the deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We pay a monthly licensing fee. It is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I would recommend using this solution.
I would suggest just go through thorough AWS training and some of the training courseification programs.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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