Amazon S3 Glacier vs HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 comparison

Amazon S3 Glacier vs. HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

4.0

Organizations benefit from Amazon S3 Glacier with cost savings and high ROI, despite needing better support and cost management.

Sentiment score

4.4

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers potential 2X ROI, varying by use case, with strategic cost-focused benefits.

If AWS improves support and cost management, there would be fewer reasons for users to consider other cloud platforms.

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Technical Owner at Harman International

As it is Amazon S3 Glacier, it is used only for archival purposes, so it is comparatively okay to use it, and we can save money compared to the standard which is high.

Arun-M

Server Administrator at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I have seen a return on investment from HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

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Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

I have seen a return on investment, which is a little more nuanced, as with HPE GreenLake for File Storage being an operational expense allows me to do a lot more with fewer dollars, spread over the course of the contract.

Warren Owens

Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.4

Amazon S3 Glacier support receives mixed reviews, with some praising assistance and others noting delays and occasional unresponsiveness.

Sentiment score

7.5

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 support is praised for responsiveness, problem resolution, and reliability, despite occasional response delays.

Amazon S3 Glacier is a good solution for us, and I am very happy with it.

Pat Fogarty

Project Engineer at Astellas Pharma US

There is room for improvement in providing more skilled and comprehensive solutions.

Technical Owner at Harman International

They provide documentation and resolve issues.

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Sr Data Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Concerning the storage itself, they're pretty damn close to perfect.

Warren Owens

Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I evaluate the customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 as excellent so far.

reviewer2730105

Video Strategy Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Normally, with the Nimble systems and with HPE Alletra MPs or HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with Nimble OS, we have not had many support cases in the last years.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

5.1

Amazon S3 Glacier excels in scalability and integration, handling large data volumes effortlessly with high user ratings and reliability.

Sentiment score

7.4

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers excellent scalability, flexibility, and positive operational impact, effectively meeting performance and capacity needs.

Amazon S3 Glacier auto-scales according to the data.

Sr DevOps Engineer at HTC Global

Amazon S3 Glacier is infinitely scalable, with no issues on our end.

Technical Owner at Harman International

Glacier has excellent scalability, with elasticity and security that meet industry standards.

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Sr Data Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 scales with the growing needs of my organization in terms of performance for applications.

Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

I haven't seen any issues with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 in terms of scaling capacity and performance independently.

reviewer2730105

Video Strategy Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Upgrading from a smaller controller to a more powerful one is straightforward for enhancing speed, or you can extend the network ports.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.7

Amazon S3 Glacier is highly stable, with minimal outages and enhanced performance from AWS tools, ensuring reliable data access.

Sentiment score

8.3

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is renowned for its stability, reliability, and uninterrupted performance, receiving high user ratings.

It is specifically designed for cold storage.

Technical Owner at Harman International

I do not experience any stability issues.

Arun-M

Server Administrator at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Amazon S3 Glacier is quite stable, nine out of ten.

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Sr DevOps Engineer at HTC Global

The experience has no downtimes or crashes, and the performance is good.

Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

The stability and reliability level of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is very good.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

In the past three years, I have not had even one escalation call.

reviewer2650254

Head Of IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees

Room For Improvement

Amazon S3 Glacier needs improvements in retrieval speed, integration, pricing, support, security, compliance, billing, and storage efficiency.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 needs faster configuration, portal reliability, unified storage, better metadata, marketplace diversity, and improved cost management.

I would like to see improvements in the transfer rate as it takes quite a long time to retrieve data from Glacier compared to standard S3 storage.

Sr DevOps Engineer at HTC Global

Support could be more robust, with a focus on providing comprehensive solutions even for novel issues.

Technical Owner at Harman International

Another improvement is making Glacier available in all regions.

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Sr Data Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

In a price-sensitive market like India, obtaining an administrator is much more cost-effective than the cloud alternative, which is almost four times as expensive.

reviewer2650254

Head Of IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees

The DSCC portal offers replication information, but it is not available in the integrated GUI.

Manikandan Ramalingam

Storage Architect at DXC Technology

If the customer's requirement is pure NAS, in that environment, I cannot suggest HP solutions.

Kitmeer-Ahmad

Product Manager, Dell Client Solutions at Team Computers

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Setup Cost

Amazon S3 Glacier's pricing is affordable but confusing, with no licensing fees and potential long-term costs for large data volumes.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is competitively priced, stable, cost-effective, and straightforward, with manageable storage and significant software costs.

Compared to competitors like GCP, AWS can work on reducing hidden costs and overall pricing to retain startups and medium-sized businesses.

Technical Owner at Harman International

The storage cost is minimal, which is beneficial for archival purposes.

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Sr Data Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Amazon S3 Glacier is beneficial due to its lower cost.

StevenLai

Sr. Data Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is not so expensive.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was good.

Jim VandeVegt

Technical Integrator at Physicians Mutual Insurance

Regarding pricing, this year I compared it with other vendors, and HPE is still on par with what the other vendors have out there, so I'm comfortable with the pricing.

Warren Owens

Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Valuable Features

Amazon S3 Glacier provides affordable, secure archiving with easy integration, strong encryption, user-friendly features, and reliable data management.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers centralized, scalable management with AI-driven features, ensuring efficiency, flexibility, and data availability.

Glacier greatly helps in managing storage costs by moving historical data to a lower-cost storage option.

Sr Data Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The security features include object lock encryption and immutability options, so we can use this for backups.

Arun-M

Server Administrator at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier are its cost-effectiveness for data archiving and its durability.

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Sr DevOps Engineer at HTC Global

Regarding DR, the RPO and RTOs are very good.

Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

Regarding the predictive analytics feature of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, you can analyze information over the DSCC, the Data Center Cloud Console, where you can see a lot of information to indicate whether the system has had problems or not.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

The performance level of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 impacts our organization's processes by enhancing operational efficiency.

Parth Sharma

Product Engineering Architect at 11:11 Sytems

Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3 Glacier

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise SAN (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 Glacier is 10.1%, down from 17.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is 3.7%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Public Cloud Storage Services Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon S3 Glacier	10.1%
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000	3.7%
Other	86.2%

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Featured Reviews

Pat Fogarty

Project Engineer at Astellas Pharma US

Archiving data has reduced storage costs and provides reliable long‑term retention

We have not really come across any downsides for us. It is possible that the retrieval of data may be expensive, which could be an issue, but we have not experienced that in fairness. Integration with our policies would be beneficial. We have policies for our systems where we delete data after a certain number of years, and having integration with Amazon S3 Glacier would be good. Having a guarantee that Amazon S3 Glacier would persist for the amount of time that we require in our archives would be valuable. In other words, Amazon would need to commit to support for the period we need. We could be talking about 20 years or longer. We cannot always move to the next version because we need to maintain old systems and legacy systems in order to maintain archives. A guarantee around support would be a good thing to have.

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Kitmeer-Ahmad

Product Manager, Dell Client Solutions at Team Computers

Hybrid storage for AI and virtualization has boosted performance and simplified VM management

I think there are some issues to enhance in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. In HP, there is no NAS as of now. Earlier, there was a NAS, but they stopped the unified boxes, creating challenges with customers. For enterprise customers, it is better to keep the environment separate, but for SMB customers, they should introduce unified boxes so that customers can easily use SAN/NAS functionality. That function is not available in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. It is available in Dell PowerStore and NetApp. If the customer's requirement is pure NAS, in that environment, I cannot suggest HP solutions. If the customer asks for a unified box in an RFP, I have to go to alternative OEMs like NetApp. As I mentioned, NetApp is known for the unified feature. In HP, there is no option to provide a unified box. If the requirement is for object storage or pure SAN, HP will best fit that environment. In NetApp, there are limitations on the SMB customer side due to the need for iSCSI switches between servers and storage. In contrast, with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, I can connect directly to the switches.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

University

10%

Media Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	25
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	9

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...

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 ...

What needs improvement with Amazon S3 Glacier?

What do you like most about HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?

The feature I like is that I can create a template and apply it to multiple switches. I don't have to do the same task on every switch, and the same goes for access points. It's central managemen...

What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?

One area that has potential for improvement is the replication side, as Alletra Direct GUI does not provide options to view replication details. While the DSCC portal offers this information, it is...

What is your primary use case for HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?

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Also Known As

Amazon Glacier

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage

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)

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, formerly HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, is a flexible solution known for central management and scalability, ensuring improved uptime and seamless system integration.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers an intuitive interface, AI-driven predictive analytics, and the ability to scale capacity and performance independently. It provides a pay-as-you-go model for simplified management and reduces operational expenses and downtime. The solution is characterized by high availability, strong support, and a simplified disaster recovery process. Intent-based and self-provisioning features streamline storage management. Despite its strengths, enhancements in configuration speed, portal updates, and connectivity are needed. Users request improved data classification, vendor marketplace details, a deeper GreenLake integration, and enhanced sustainability services.

What are the key features of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000?

Central Management: Streamlines control across storage resources.
Scalability: Independent scaling of capacity and performance.
AI-driven Predictive Analytics: Anticipates and resolves issues proactively.
High Availability: Ensures continuous operation and minimal downtime.
Intent-based Provisioning: Simplifies storage allocation with minimal input.

How does HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 benefit users?

Cost Efficiency: Pay-as-you-go model reduces expenditure.
Improved Uptime: High reliability minimizes operational interruptions.
Simplified Management: Easy-to-use interface and self-provisioning streamline processes.
Reduced Downtime: Proactive analytics and robust disaster recovery enhance system resilience.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is primarily used for virtualization in VMware and Hyper-V environments, addressing storage provisioning, database hosting, and SAP data requirements. It supports video-on-demand infrastructure and containerized applications, facilitating disaster recovery and data backup solutions. Many users integrate it with VMware infrastructures, transitioning from Nimble systems to meet storage demand.

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Sample Customers

King Cpunty, Illumina, Backupify, Nearmap.com, Scribd, Baylor College of Medicine, SoundCloud

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