G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Google Cloud Storage

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

MetricAmazon S3 Glacier

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Cloud Storage

by Google

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count139603
Ease of use8.69.2
Ease of setup8.69.1
Quality of support8.89.0
Meets requirements9.19.3
NPS62.90322673.93617
Small Business38.4%45.3%
Mid-Market28.3%25.5%
Enterprise33.3%29.3%
Total page views318984
Total LLM citations2,43824,564

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

Google Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage is a managed service for storing unstructured data, like videos and documents. It is most commonly used for data lakes for analytics, storing AI data, or web hosting. With Cloud Storage you can store any amount of data, and retrieve it as often as you like. New customers can use $300 in free credits to try Cloud Storage. All customers get 5 GiB of US regional storage free per month, not charged against your credits. If you’re a consumer or business looking for file sharing, check out Workspace products like Google Drive (https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/).

Pros

  • Cloud Storage
  • Ease of Use
  • Security
  • Scalability
  • Features
  • Integrations