Amazon Cloud Drive vs ownCloud

Amazon Cloud Drive

Amazon is incredible...a trusted company, so of course we trust their cloud service! It's been such a smooth workflow using their cloud service. We often travel to see clients, and sometimes we may not have the latest version of a presentation because people are rushing and things can get confusing. Now we're never worried because we can always fetch them from the cloud.

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Engineer in Engineering

Packaging and Containers Company, 51-200 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

8.0

ownCloud

8.6

Versioning

8.5

9.2

Video files

8.4

7.0

Audio files

8.0

7.0

Document collaboration

7.6

8.6

Access control

7.5

9.3

File search

8.1

9.5

Device sync

8.2

9.8

Amazon Cloud Drive

8.5

ownCloud

8.5

User and role management

8.4

9.3

File organization

9.0

9.2

Device management

8.1

6.9

Amazon Cloud Drive

9.0

ownCloud

8.2

Performance

9.1

7.7

Reliability

9.0

Storage Reports

8.9

7.9

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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Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Fast access times
Easily managed
Scalability

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Manager in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

No managerial aspect
No meta data saved with images
No organizational abilities due to loss of meta data

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Engineer in Engineering

Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Newest releases not supported in updated Ubuntu servers
Major issues connecting with Windows server shares on any version past 8.1
Unreliable admin user password resets

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Manager in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

Amazon Cloud Drive10.0

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The system is very easy to use and it's use of apps for almost all devices and hardware makes it even easier to manage and store photos and documents. I highly recommend this as an easy to use solution for novices!

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James Murphy

Senior Web Developer

Web Juice LtdInternet, 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 well organized version of Amazon Cloud wins over both Google Drive and Dropbox. Better accessibility compared to Google Drive and faster access speed compared to Dropbox. Won over the both of them overall except for the pricing case.

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Kaung Htet Kyaw

Student

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

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ownCloud's ease of install, maintenance and use as well as a modern interface were major reasons for the choice.

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Manager in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Amazon likes to provide you with one year free unlimited cloud drive in some occasions. There is not much impact on my business but provides me with fast and easy accessibility to the files from anywhere I want.

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Kaung Htet Kyaw

Student

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

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