Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Mirror Backup

Mirror Backup

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon S3 Glacier	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.	$0 Per GB Per Month
Mirror Backup	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Mirror Backup protects users from data loss by continuously monitoring files and folders, and backing them up to the cloud, a network share, or local drive when they change. It does this in a background service that does not require a user to be logged in - presented as ideal for company servers. It can also keep incremental backups, for when users want a history of each file's changes. The vendor states this design is more desirable than whole-disk backups for some situations. And if the…	N/A

Pricing

Amazon S3 Glacier

Mirror Backup

Editions & Modules

Bulk Retrieval Pricing: $0.0025
Per GB Per Month
Storage Pricing: $0.004
Per GB Per Month
Retrieval Pricing: $0.01
Per GB Per Month
Expedited Retrieval Pricing: $0.03
Per GB Per Month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror Backup
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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24/7 file protection is available for as little as $0.80 per month. This rate is for a yearly subscription of 30+ seats. The most expensive option, 1 seat/monthly, is $3 per month. Mirror Backup will work with any existing cloud, or local storage can be used.

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Community Pulse
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror Backup

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User Ratings
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror Backup
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror Backup
Likelihood to Recommend	As described in the use case, it is perfect for backup data storage where you do not expect to retrieve the data often. Think of it as a data dump; it is nice to know you have a backup, but it actually is expensive and somewhat difficult to retrieve everything. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Glacier is an inexpensive solution to the problem of storing rarely-accessed data for years. You can configure S3 buckets to transition objects to Glacier with a few clicks. It is easy to get started with Glacier; there is little learning curve and few concepts to familiarize yourself with. Incentivized Gavin Hackeling Data Scientist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Billing system isn't the smoothest to operate Recalling information from glacier can run slow depending on type of data Customer support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Amazon Glacier isn't a direct competitor to the products I've listed; it could compare to the clouds/data warehouses each of these products use to store their data. In the case of CloudBerry, Amazon Glacier is used with it to create a complete archival backup system. That said, when using Amazon Glacier along with a product like CloudBerry, you can create a reliable, inexpensive cloud backup system for retaining HUGE quantities of data for much less than these other cloud backup solutions. HOWEVER, if you want to restore said data, the cost and complexity begin to become a major concern, so Amazon Glacier should only be considered in situations where you don't plan to touch the data regularly, if at all, once it's at Glacier. Incentivized PP Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	With this now we are storing data for less cost as compare to what we were paying earlier Increased the data access limits Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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