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Amazon S3

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What is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.

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Pankaj Choudhary | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pankaj Choudhary
Freelancer Android Developer
Freelancer (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
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What is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.

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Product Details

What is Amazon S3?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. It provides great utility for storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.

It is suitable for businesses or organizations of any size to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 provides management features for organizing data and configuring access controls to meet business, organizational, and compliance requirements.


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Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Amazon S3 are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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June 23, 2021

Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
The interface has definitely improved over the years but it was always fairly simple to navigate and setup. We rarely need to access the AWS website and the tools we use to encrypt and send data to Amazon S3 have never had an issue uploading or retrieving data from the S3 bucket. Your bucket names have to be unique throughout the world though, so you can't use a name for a storage bucket that another user has selected.

The standards employed by Amazon S3 have allowed many other software packages to interact with your data bucket, so there are quite a few options available when looking for a backup tool.
June 20, 2021

Great for archive data & web apps via API

Sam Othman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sam Othman
IT Systems & Telephony Administrator
Ignite Travel Group (Airlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
It is tricky to get it all set up correctly with policies and getting the IAM settings right. There is also a lot of lifecycle config you can do in terms of moving data to cold/glacier storage. It is also not to be confused with being a OneDrive or SharePoint replacement, they each have their own place in our environment, and S3 is used more by the IT team and accessed by our PHP applications. It is not necessarily used by an average everyday user for storing their pictures or documents, etc.
May 11, 2021

Amazon S3 - Storage as far as the eye can see; and then further

Adam Lauer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Adam Lauer
Senior Software Engineer
GroundTruth (Environmental Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
7
The UI is clunky. The CLI is a little esoteric and hard to grapple with. The API documentation is pretty good, but I would recommend wrapping a very thin wrapper class/package around it if you expect to use it a lot. There is a lot of overhead you can cut off by implementing your own code.
September 04, 2019

Easiest blob storage out there

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
10
AWS has provided a very easy-to-use console for all of their products, including S3, which has a simple drag-and-drop interface that walks you through anything you need to do. They also have a very simple command-line utility, and several programmatic interfaces to access all of your data from anywhere and any language.
September 02, 2019

Amazon S3 Review

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
8
It has a lot of functionality. However, some of it is hidden within the remote command line interface. Setting up more advanced use cases can require a decent amount of research and possible a call to tech support. Overall it is solid.
August 27, 2019

Amazon S3, the go-to storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

Chris Barretto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Barretto
Engineering Manager
Indeed.com (Staffing and Recruiting, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
10
It is very easy to use and can be integrated using the full spectrum of languages. Most have languages with libraries or packages that already create easy-to-use methods that hook into the API.
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