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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. IBM Spectrum Archive

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

MetricAmazon S3 Glacier

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IBM Spectrum Archive

by IBM

Overall rating4.54.2
Review count13911
Ease of use8.69.0
Ease of setup8.69.6
Quality of support8.88.8
Meets requirements9.18.9
NPS62.90322654.545455
Small Business38.4%45.5%
Mid-Market28.3%36.4%
Enterprise33.3%18.2%
Total page views31857
Total LLM citations2,43812

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

IBM Spectrum Archive

IBM Spectrum Archive, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage family, gives you direct, intuitive and graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries by incorporating the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format standard for reading, writing and exchanging descriptive metadata on formatted tape cartridges. Spectrum Archive eliminates the need for additional tape management and software to access data. Spectrum Archive offers three software solutions for managing your digital files with the LTFS format: Single Drive Edition, Library Edition and Enterprise Edition.

Pros