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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Drive is a fantastic backup solution for storing your digital files on the web, but if you want to manage, tweak, organize or otherwise maintain those files after they have reached the cloud, the experience immediately begins to suffer. This is especially noted when major competitor products like Microsoft and Dropbox offer similar services at similar prices, but offer far better interfaces for file management.
Digital Marketing Manager
LGD CommunicationsMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Panzura
I believe Panzura can fit into any company structure.
Vice President of IT, Principal
Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
File Sharing & Management
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.5
Panzura
—
Versioning
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.6
Panzura
—
Video files
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.7
Panzura
—
Audio files
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.1
Panzura
—
Document collaboration
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.4
Panzura
—
Access control
Amazon Cloud Drive
6.8
Panzura
—
File search
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.9
Panzura
—
Device sync
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.9
Panzura
—
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Amazon Cloud Drive
8.1
Panzura
—
User and role management
Amazon Cloud Drive
8.0
Panzura
—
File organization
Amazon Cloud Drive
8.5
Panzura
—
Device management
Amazon Cloud Drive
7.7
Panzura
—
Cloud Storage Platform
Amazon Cloud Drive
8.4
Panzura
—
Performance
Amazon Cloud Drive
8.6
Panzura
—
Reliability
Amazon Cloud Drive
8.6
Panzura
—
Storage Reports
Amazon Cloud Drive
8.0
Panzura
—
Pros
Amazon Cloud Drive
- Worldwide accessibility, including from China's great firewall.
- Highly flexible with different server options: Aurora, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Lengthy free trial lets you really dive deeply and explore the solutions offering and all that Amazon has to provide you with.

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 201-500 employeesPanzura
- Ease of configuration - I installed well over 50 Panzura CSGs in under 6 months. The web interfaces are easy to navigate and the CLI is easy to learn.
- Simplified replication creation. Pick your partners and go, hub & spoke, full mesh, take your pick the GUI makes it clear to understand what is being done.
- Efficient storage usage. Expandable via additional drive enclosures, resilient due to replication and efficient due to deduplication.
- Hybrid cloud done right. With APIs to external CAS storage you can create the private cloud you want, and with hooks to external resources like S3 take advantage of the public cloud space for economy of scale.
Storage Engineer
Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees
Cons
Amazon Cloud Drive
- Less storage than Google Drive, Google offers 15GB of free space - vs. Amazon's 5GB.
- Also, unlike with Google Drive, you can't back up your work with Amazon Drive ( I also use Google Drive, since I have a Gmail account).
- A lot more expensive than Google Drive, which is 1.99/month...but they are more in line with Dropbox pricing.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Packaging and Containers Company, 51-200 employeesPanzura
- Faster browsing of photos
Vice President of IT, Principal
Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees
Usability
Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Drive 6.0
Based on 2 answers
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!
Senior Web Developer
Web Juice LtdInternet, 1-10 employees
Performance
Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Drive 6.0
Based on 1 answer
It is safe but has little added value.
VICEPRESIDENT
EYEMAR EXPRESSAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Drive Cloud has the advantage of being backed by one of the companies that has had the highest growth in recent years: Amazon. That gives us security and has been the main reason for us to trust this product. We believe that the security systems of this company are good enough to be quiet while our files are stored on their servers
Director de Marketing en Festejos Car-Yan. C.A.
Festejos Car-Yan. C.AEvents Services, 11-50 employees
Panzura
There are several other devices but Panzura is best of class.
Vice President of IT, Principal
Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon Cloud Drive
- It slowed us down at first since we went from purely agile to document based then agile.
- It is easy to use so even non-developers can access code snippets which they wouldn't know how to access on github.
- It has a lot of features we don't have a use for in our business.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesPanzura
- Exceptional positive impact on availability - as users move so do their files.
- Panzura+DFS allowed for simple chargeback models to be implemented.
Storage Engineer
Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Amazon Cloud Drive
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Panzura
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No