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# Amazon Redshift vs Amazon S3 Glacier Comparison - What are their main differences?

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Reviews

**Amazon Redshift** [

4.3/5(404)

](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews#reviews)

**Amazon S3 Glacier** [

4.5/5(139)

](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews#reviews)

Pricing

**Amazon Redshift**
Free Trial

**$1.22 - $3.26** Per hour · RA3.4xlarge

**Amazon S3 Glacier**
No pricing available

**Pricing Insights**
from reviews

Time to Implement

**Amazon Redshift**
4 months

Based on 5 responses

**Amazon S3 Glacier**
3 monthsFaster

Based on 13 responses

Return on Investment

**Amazon Redshift**
17 months

Based on 6 responses

**Amazon S3 Glacier**
12 months5 months sooner

Based on 10 responses

Perceived Cost

**Amazon Redshift**
$$$$$

**Amazon S3 Glacier**
$$$$$

Average Discount

**Amazon Redshift**
17%1% more

**Amazon S3 Glacier**
16%

Pros & Cons

**Amazon Redshift**
[
Fast Querying (5)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=1396334&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)[
Integrations (5)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=1396714&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)[
Feature Limitations (4)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=1396004&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)[
Software Limitations (4)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=1396077&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)

**Amazon S3 Glacier**
[
Affordable (2)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=2466883&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)[
Data Security (2)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=2466872&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)[
High Retrieval Costs (2)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=2466911&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)[
Slow Retrieval (2)
](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews?filters%5Bsentiment_snippet%5D=2410995&qs=pros-and-cons#reviews)

Integrations

**Amazon Redshift**
[

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Fivetran

](https://www.g2.com/products/fivetran/reviews)[

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Informatica Data Engineering

](https://www.g2.com/products/informatica-data-engineering/reviews)[

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Informatica Data Integration and Engineering

](https://www.g2.com/products/informatica-data-integration-and-engineering/reviews)[

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Liquibase

](https://www.g2.com/products/liquibase/reviews)[
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**Amazon S3 Glacier**
[

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Amazon SageMaker

](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-sagemaker/reviews)[

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AWS Lambda

](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews)[
View all
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Screenshots

**Amazon Redshift**
 ![Amazon Redshift screenshot](https://images.g2crowd.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=600,height=600,fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,/https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/attachment/file/92020/Screenshot6.png)

**Amazon S3 Glacier**
No screenshot available

Ratings

Meets Requirements

**Amazon Redshift**

8.7

8.7286

**Amazon S3 Glacier**

8.9

8.9105

Ease of Use

**Amazon Redshift**

8.7

8.7286

**Amazon S3 Glacier**

8.4

8.4104

Ease of Setup

**Amazon Redshift**

8.6

8.6143

**Amazon S3 Glacier**

8.4

8.465

Ease of Admin

**Amazon Redshift**

8.4

8.4130

**Amazon S3 Glacier**

8.4

8.458

Quality of Support

**Amazon Redshift**

8.5

8.5269

**Amazon S3 Glacier**

8.5

8.593

Has the product been a good partner in doing business?

**Amazon Redshift**

8.7

8.7129

**Amazon S3 Glacier**

8.6

8.655

Product Direction (% positive)

**Amazon Redshift**

8.9

8.9256

**Amazon S3 Glacier**

8.7

8.7100

Features

Data Warehouse[Hide 48 FeaturesShow 48 Features](javascript:void(0);)

8.4

152

Not enough data

Data Management

Data Integration

8.8(won by default)

137

|

Verified

Not enough data

Data Compression

8.4(won by default)

125

|

Verified

Not enough data

Data Quality

8.8(won by default)

131

|

Verified

Not enough data

Built-In Data Analytics

8.0(won by default)

127

|

Verified

Not enough data

In-Database Machine Learning

7.6(won by default)

102

|

Verified

Not enough data

Data Lake Analytics

8.3(won by default)

119

|

Verified

Not enough data

ETL - Extract Transfer Load

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Capture and Transfer

Not enough data

Not enough data

Real-Time Analytics

Not enough data

Not enough data

Reporting/Analytics

Not enough data

Not enough data

Integration

AI/ ML Integration

7.8(won by default)

102

|

Verified

Not enough data

BI Tool Integration

8.7(won by default)

130

|

Verified

Not enough data

Data lake Integration

8.6(won by default)

119

|

Verified

Not enough data

Deployment

On-Premise

8.1(won by default)

102

Not enough data

Cloud

8.9(won by default)

133

|

Verified

Not enough data

Performance 

Scalability

8.9(won by default)

138

|

Verified

Not enough data

Security

Data Governance

8.7(won by default)

126

|

Verified

Not enough data

Data Security

8.8(won by default)

128

|

Verified

Not enough data

Generative AI

AI Text Generation

7.3(won by default)

20

Not enough data

AI Text Summarization

7.2(won by default)

19

Not enough data

Generative AI

Not enough data

Not enough data

Additional Functionality

Parallel Processing

Not enough data

Not enough data

Ad hoc Analysis

Not enough data

Not enough data

Multiple Data Sources

Not enough data

Not enough data

API

Not enough data

Not enough data

In-Database Processing

Not enough data

Not enough data

Monitoring

Not enough data

Not enough data

Real-Time Reporting

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Synchronization

Not enough data

Not enough data

Real-Time Monitoring

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Connectors

Not enough data

Not enough data

Performance Metrics

Not enough data

Not enough data

Ad hoc Reporting

Not enough data

Not enough data

Alerts/Notifications

Not enough data

Not enough data

Access Controls/Permissions

Not enough data

Not enough data

Drag & Drop

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Visualization

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Import/Export

Not enough data

Not enough data

Match & Merge

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Transformation

Not enough data

Not enough data

Secure Data Storage

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Extraction

Not enough data

Not enough data

AI Copilot

Not enough data

Not enough data

Customizable Reports

Not enough data

Not enough data

Activity Dashboard

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Migration

Not enough data

Not enough data

In-Memory Processing

Not enough data

Not enough data

Data Mapping

Not enough data

Not enough data

Columnar Databases[Hide 12 FeaturesShow 12 Features](javascript:void(0);)

8.3

63

Not enough data

Storage

Data Model

8.4(won by default)

53

Not enough data

Data Types

8.4(won by default)

56

Not enough data

Availability

Auto Sharding

8.6(won by default)

47

Not enough data

Auto Recovery

8.2(won by default)

50

Not enough data

Data Replication

8.4(won by default)

48

Not enough data

Performance

Integrated Cache

8.2(won by default)

48

Not enough data

Security

Role-Based Authorization

8.7(won by default)

47

Not enough data

Authentication

8.4(won by default)

52

Not enough data

Audit Logs

8.1(won by default)

47

Not enough data

Encryption

8.5(won by default)

48

Not enough data

Support

Multi-Model

7.9(won by default)

43

Not enough data

Operating Systems

8.5(won by default)

47

Not enough data

Object Storage Solutions[Hide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features](javascript:void(0);)

Not enough data

9.0

25

Functionality

Versioning

Not enough data

9.0(won by default)

21

Scalability

Not enough data

9.5(won by default)

23

Speed of access

Not enough data

8.3(won by default)

24

Reliability

Redundancy

Not enough data

8.9(won by default)

22

Availability

Not enough data

9.5(won by default)

24

Security

Encryption

Not enough data

9.2(won by default)

22

Auditing

Not enough data

9.0(won by default)

21

Access control

Not enough data

9.2(won by default)

22

Compatibility

Infrastructure compatibility

Not enough data

9.1(won by default)

22

Interoperability

Not enough data

8.9(won by default)

20

User Insights

Reviewers' Company Size

[![Amazon Redshift](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/hd_favicon/1528476479/amazon-redshift.svg "Amazon Redshift")](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews)

Amazon Redshift

Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

20.6%

Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

40.4%

Enterprise(\> 1000 emp.)

39.0%

[![Amazon S3 Glacier](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/hd_favicon/5383be31b099738701f86724a8b5cf9a/amazon-s3-glacier.svg "Amazon S3 Glacier")](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews)

Amazon S3 Glacier

Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

39.5%

Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

28.2%

Enterprise(\> 1000 emp.)

32.3%

Small-Business

(50 or fewer emp.)

20.6%

39.5%

Mid-Market

(51-1000 emp.)

40.4%

28.2%

Enterprise

(\> 1000 emp.)

39.0%

32.3%

Reviewers' Industry

[![Amazon Redshift](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/hd_favicon/1528476479/amazon-redshift.svg "Amazon Redshift")](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews)
Amazon Redshift

Information Technology and Services

15.3%

Computer Software

12.5%

Financial Services

7.6%

Retail

5.4%

Marketing and Advertising

4.9%

Other

54.2%

[![Amazon S3 Glacier](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/hd_favicon/5383be31b099738701f86724a8b5cf9a/amazon-s3-glacier.svg "Amazon S3 Glacier")](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews)
Amazon S3 Glacier

Information Technology and Services

27.4%

Computer Software

17.7%

Marketing and Advertising

9.7%

Education Management

3.2%

Media Production

3.2%

Other

38.7%

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**Amazon Redshift Alternatives**

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BigQuery
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Rocket Vertica
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[
Cloudera
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**Amazon S3 Glacier Alternatives**

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[
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
](/products/backblaze-b2-cloud-storage/reviews)

 ![Google Cloud Storage](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/hd_favicon/a358e8fa929275ce12c07c821012f33d/google-cloud-storage.svg "Google Cloud Storage")

[
Google Cloud Storage
](/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews)

 ![Azure Archive Storage](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/thumb_square/thumb_square_f176b4154a751d10150daa67a57b7dc5/azure-archive-storage.jpg "Azure Archive Storage")

[
Azure Archive Storage
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IDrive Online and SaaS...
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## Amazon Redshift vs Amazon S3 Glacier

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Amazon Redshift easier to use and set up. Reviewers also felt that Amazon Redshift was easier to do business with overall. However, reviewers felt that administration of both products was equally easy.

- Reviewers felt that Amazon S3 Glacier meets the needs of their business better than Amazon Redshift.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 Glacier provide similar levels of assistance.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Amazon Redshift over Amazon S3 Glacier.