Amazon Glacier vs Afi: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon Glacier as "Low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup". In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. On the other hand, Afi is detailed as "Intelligent G Suite & Office 365 backup". Reliable and seamless G Suite Backup solution based on new microservices-based architecture. It autonomosly works its way around Google & Microsoft API and network failures, rescheduling and re-attempting backups to acheive compliance with protection SLAs.

Amazon Glacier and Afi can be primarily classified as "Data Backup" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon Glacier are:

• Low cost – Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost, pay-as-you-go storage service that can cost as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month.
• You store data in Amazon Glacier as archives. An archive can represent a single file or you may choose to combine several files to be uploaded as a single archive. Retrieving archives from Amazon Glacier requires the initiation of a job. Jobs typically complete in 3 to 5 hours. You organize your archives in vaults.
• Secure – Amazon Glacier supports secure transfer of your data over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and automatically stores data encrypted at rest using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256, a secure symmetric-key encryption standard using 256-bit encryption keys.

On the other hand, Afi provides the following key features:

• Scheduled backups
• G Suite protection
• G Suite account management