Amazon Cloud Drive vs ownCloud

Amazon Cloud Drive

As a place to personally store photos and documents I cannot fault Amazon Cloud Drive. There are better tools out there for business use, but [there are] benefits from its simplicity to not do anything overly complicated.

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James Murphy

Senior Web Developer

Web Juice LtdInternet, 1-10 employees

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ownCloud

Perfect for a smaller company having no solid document server. Without any major costs you can go from 3 to 30 to 60 users with the same hardware or VPS and if self-managed, no payment per user per month. Less appropriate when users absolutely require collaborative editing of documents. Pick Office365 or G Suite (Google Documents for work) instead.

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Martin Malec

Coordinator

Česká psychedelická společnost, z.s. (Czech Psychedelic Society)Cosmetics, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Cloud Drive

7.6

ownCloud

7.4

Versioning

7.8

7.6

Video files

7.9

6.2

Audio files

7.5

6.2

Document collaboration

7.5

7.0

Access control

7.0

9.2

File search

7.9

6.9

Device sync

7.9

8.9

Amazon Cloud Drive

8.1

ownCloud

7.4

User and role management

8.1

7.6

File organization

8.6

8.5

Device management

7.7

6.1

Amazon Cloud Drive

8.4

ownCloud

6.6

Performance

8.6

5.3

Reliability

8.6

7.0

Storage Reports

8.0

7.4

Pros

Amazon is rich in API and Amazon Cloud Drive is not an exception to it.
It integrates well with all our applications as we are on AWS for a long time.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Easy to deploy
Easy to manage
Cost-effective

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Ignacio Gilart

CEO

WhiteBearSolutionsComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The pricing is quite on the expensive side for everyone to be able to use.

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Kaung Htet Kyaw

Student

Rochester Institute Of TechnologyElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees

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The more files OwnCloud has, the slower it seems to be. Viewing files inside OwnCloud can be really cumbersome and I have found other tools to be much more user friendly in finding what I'm looking for.
Viewing photography assets stored in OwnCloud is extremely slow and not as helpful as something like Google Drive or even DropBox would be.

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Verified User

Strategist in Marketing

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Amazon Cloud Drive6.2

Based on 2 answers

Because Amazon Cloud Drive is very easy to use.

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Arlex Guzman

VICEPRESIDENT

EYEMAR EXPRESSAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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Performance

Amazon Cloud Drive6.0

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It is safe but has little added value.

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Arlex Guzman

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EYEMAR EXPRESSAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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Support

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ownCloud6.4

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Regarding the community edition, there is a reasonably good support on the IRC, forums and in the issue section on Github. Perhaps a much more individual approach would be available if the premium support was chosen and the instance of the server was provided by the Owncloud company that also offers some premium extensions, not available generally. However, we did not need this level of support yet.

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Martin Malec

Coordinator

Česká psychedelická společnost, z.s. (Czech Psychedelic Society)Cosmetics, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

The other services have a better computer syncing software, but the unlimited photo and video space for a small annual fee is unsurpassed by the competition.

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Jason Montoya

Servant Leader

JasonScottMontoya.comMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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I have used several products based on public (DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft Drive, etc) and private cloud (Citrix). Most of them work on public cloud space so they could present problems with compliance. Also, it is usually difficult to protect the information contained in this environments. On the other hand, enterprise features are usually included in enterprise versions. The on-premise solutions as Citrix are very expensive when you have hundreds or thousands of users.

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Ignacio Gilart

CEO

WhiteBearSolutionsComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Makes it easy to backup our photos, especially on our phones so they can be cleared out to make more space available.
Creates a central location for all of our photos and video files.

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Jason Montoya

Servant Leader

JasonScottMontoya.comMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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