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Amazon Glacier vs Prott: What are the differences?
What is Amazon Glacier? 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.
What is Prott? Capture your idea and make a clickable prototype in seconds. Includes animations, realtime sync, and collaboration. Prott is a new and powerful prototyping tool for designing and developing mobile apps. Through rapid prototyping you can shape your ideas instantly. No matter where you are, you can test your prototypes and share your ideas and comments. Continually improve your design without writing a line of code.
Amazon Glacier can be classified as a tool in the "Data Backup" category, while Prott is grouped under "Mobile Prototyping & Interaction Design 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, Prott provides the following key features:
- Capture your idea
- Add animation
- Realtime sync
Pros of Amazon Glacier
- Cold Storage6
- Easy Setup3
- Cheap1