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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon S3
I've used S3 continuously for projects large and small for over 10 years. It's just such a common and essential tool in software development. Hosting assets/images, or providing file upload abilities to users, come up very often throughout software, and S3 is hands-down the best place to serve and store files. It's flexible enough that you can use client libraries to perform direct uploads rather than writing your own handlers, etc. S3 is a tool that immediately has value for file hosting and storage, and then extends as far as you need it to for all manner of asset management.

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Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesAzure NetApp Files
In my opinion, I would say it is more suitable to huge workloads, where you really needs the reliability and performance that a Netapp storage provides to you, larger share sizes, etc. Use cases where you really needs to store large amounts of non-structured data.It is not a cheap solution, I mean, you can find other options to store your data on the Cloud at smaller prices. So, for small companies, or companies that depends mostly on web-applications, or don't have such a specific requirements, I would not go with Azure Netapp Files.

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Analyst in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Amazon S3
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Azure NetApp Files
8.9
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
Amazon S3
—
Azure NetApp Files
9.1
Dynamic scaling
Amazon S3
—
Azure NetApp Files
8.9
Elastic load balancing
Amazon S3
—
Azure NetApp Files
9.0
Pre-configured templates
Amazon S3
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Azure NetApp Files
8.5
Monitoring tools
Amazon S3
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Azure NetApp Files
8.6
Pre-defined machine images
Amazon S3
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Azure NetApp Files
8.5
Operating system support
Amazon S3
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Azure NetApp Files
9.3
Security controls
Amazon S3
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Azure NetApp Files
9.1
Pros
Amazon S3
- Highly available and redundant; we do not worry about the service having downtime
- Simple usage from multiple different frameworks using Amazon's SDKs, or roll your own
- A large number of bucket policies and security adjustments to tailor usage to customer needs
- Regional support for storing assets in particular locations around the world
Head of Engineering
Jock MKTComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Azure NetApp Files
- We have found that it scales very well. In some cases we had a large existing storage infrastructure and were able to migrate it while other times we started from scratch with low storage demands and Azure NetApp Files fit the bill each time.
- We have been impressed with the replication capabailities.
- The read and write speed when interacting with files is a major asset.

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Professional in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesCons
Amazon S3
- No support for object versions retention: There can be a retention policy(days or number) for object versions that are stored in S3 so that we don't have to worry about paying extra for all the old versions of an object in the bucket.
- No feature for replication within a region: Currently AWS does not support replication within a region. Also, having to enable versioning for buckets in which you need replication makes it even more costly.
- Confusing pricing: The pricing model of S3 can be a little confusing for a new customer with questions regarding data transfer from other AWS services, between buckets or data transfer to the outside world.

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Engineer in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employeesAzure NetApp Files
- It does not support file locking although its available as an add-on
- Design is far from native and has a learning curve
- We would like to have backup functionality built in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data.
Software Developer
Tata Consultancy ServicesPharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 7.1
Based on 6 answers
The AWS S3 API is translated into every language you can think of, and is very powerful. However, the split of features into the AWS CLI -> S3 and AWS CLI -> S3API causes some confusion when dealing with complex uploading and metadata.
Lead Frontend Engineer
MaisonetteApparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees
Azure NetApp Files
No score
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Support Rating
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 8.9
Based on 21 answers
Overall, Amazon S3 has worked out great for our organization. It has enabled us to build out a centralized storage solutions for fraction of the cost that a on-prem solution would have required. If properly managed S3 is a great asset to any organization. There a few small things that need improvement like the UI and storage monitoring but over it's been great.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Media Production Company, 51-200 employeesAzure NetApp Files
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon S3
Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.

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Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 11-50 employeesAzure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files is very well integrated with Microsoft Azure, we use the same request methods that everyone knows from Azure. NetApp and Microsoft has built a very efficient solution that allows you to transfer virtually any service to the Microsoft public cloud. Azure NetApp Files also protects our data very well.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Amazon S3
- It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
- The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
- If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Azure NetApp Files
- Positive impact includes getting high performance when working with huge volumes of data along with low latency.
- Did not encounter any negative impact as such except that it is comparatively costly than similar other services, but then it is tradeoff price vs performance.

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Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Amazon S3
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Azure NetApp Files
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No