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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon S3

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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.N/A

    Everpure FlashBlade

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AEverpure (formerly Pure Storage) offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.N/A
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    Amazon S3Everpure FlashBlade
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3Everpure FlashBlade
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Amazon AWS
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    Everpure
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Amazon S3Everpure FlashBlade
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Everpure FlashBlade
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Everpure FlashBlade
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Everpure FlashBlade
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Everpure FlashBlade
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score7.1 out of 10
    Azure Blob Storage
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Google Cloud Storage
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3Everpure FlashBlade
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (77 ratings)
    8.4
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3Everpure FlashBlade
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon S3 is a great service to safely backup your data where redundancy is guaranteed and the cost is fair. We use Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by Amazon S3. Transferring data into Amazon S3 is free but transferring data out has an associated, albeit low, cost per GB. This needs to be kept in mind if you plan on transferring out a lot of data frequently. There may be other cost effective options although Amazon S3 prices are really low per GB. Transferring 150TB would cost approximately $50 per month.
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    Everpure
    If data storage, access, and security [are] of the highest priority to your business then Pure Storage FlashBlade is an excellent tool that must be considered. Analytics or sharing that requires the fastest speeds available will benefit from the NVMe solid-state drives they use which are far superior to spinning rust. It is less ideal for those who do not require such time-critical work.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Fantastic developer API, including AWS command line and library utilities.
    • Strong integration with the AWS ecosystem, especially with regards to access permissions.
    • It's astoundingly stable- you can trust it'll stay online and available for anywhere in the world.
    • Its static website hosting feature is a hidden gem-- it provides perhaps the cheapest, most stable, most high-performing static web hosting available in PaaS.
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    Everpure
    • Speed. We are seeing large transactions take very little time.
    • Upgrades- In-place upgrades of both hardware and software are extremely easy.
    • Ease of use- I have several engineers working on this and from setup to day to day operations it is extremely easy to maintain.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Web console can be very confusing and challenging to use, especially for new users
    • Bucket policies are very flexible, but the composability of the security rules can be very confusing to get right, often leading to security rules in use on buckets other than what you believe they are
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    Everpure
    • When reporting out a user has exceeded there quote, it only references the UID. It would certainly be nice it calls out the UID name that is clearly present in the Dashboard.
    • The ability to determine a snapshot total size would be helpful.
    • Proactive reachout to discuss new versions and assist in planning the upgrade would be a key win.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    Everpure
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Everpure
    Good API, multi-protocol support is great.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS has always been quick to resolve any support ticket raised. S3 is no exception. We have only ever used it once to get a clarification regarding the costs involved when data is transferred between S3 and other AWS services or the public internet. We got a response from AWS support team within a day.
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    Everpure
    Without exception, the contacts with support have been quick and extremely knowledgeable. I do not fear getting an underqualified engineer to assess or work on my arrays. In addition to this support structure, the sales engineers are top notch as well.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Everpure
    The NetApp a800 we tested was 14% faster than Pure FlashBlade with NFS workloads. However, NetApp lacked ease of administration and performing simple tasks such as creating multiple NFS volumes required scripting from the command line. Our flashblade contained 15 baldes and our NetApp was a clustered pair with each half containing 24 nvme devices.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
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    Everpure
    • We were able to consolidate 5 different storage platforms of lesser performance onto a single Flashblade and achieve much, much lower latency and higher throughput.
    • We've been able to reduce the amount of training and configuration required to just Pure Flashblade, instead of 5 different vendors and products.
    • In addition to our core use cases, Flashblade has capabilities that we are pursuing for some new projects, i.e. analytics data store and the object store features.
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