When comparing OVH Cloud Archive vs Amazon Glacier, the Slant community recommends Amazon Glacier for most people. In the question“What are the best low-cost data backup services?” Amazon Glacier is ranked 2nd while OVH Cloud Archive is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Amazon Glacier is:
$0.007 per gigabyte per month is comparatively cheap and allows for large amounts of cloud storage.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Numerous supported protocols
OpenStack, Swift, Rsync, SFTP, SCP, HTTPS, Fuse mounting point on Linux with SVFS.
Pro Extermely low-cost
$0.007 per gigabyte per month is comparatively cheap and allows for large amounts of cloud storage.
Cons
Con Not a backup service
Using Amazon Glacier for backup requires learning and setting up third-party tools.
Con Data transfer out >1GB costs money
Retrieving a backup over 1GB costs money starting at $0.090 for 10GB.
Con Can't get to data instantly
Data retrieval can take several hours to initiate.