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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon S3 Glacier

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

by Backblaze

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count139114
Ease of use8.69.1
Ease of setup8.68.8
Quality of support8.88.8
Meets requirements9.19.3
NPS62.90322677.192982
Small Business38.4%73.4%
Mid-Market28.3%19.3%
Enterprise33.3%7.3%
Total page views3181,289
Total LLM citations2,438100,430

Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provides comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Amazon Glacier provides query-in-place functionality, allowing you to run powerful analytics directly on your archive data at rest. Customers can store data for as little as $0.004 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

Pros

  • Easy Integrations
  • Data Security
  • Affordable
  • Reliability
  • Features
  • Cloud Integration

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Backblaze B2 is S3 compatible cloud object storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Delivering performance at 1/5 the cost including free egress up to 3x monthly storage, it’s the easy choice for more than 85,000 organizations including Patagonia, UCLA, Fortune, and Streamlabs for backup, active archive, and application storage needs.

Pros

  • Affordable
  • Reliability
  • Easy Setup
  • Ease of Use
  • Storage Capacity
  • Setup Ease