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    Amazon S3

    Score8.8 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

    GoDaddy

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AGoDaddy Web Hosting provides users with storage, email addresses, and unlimited bandwith.

    $9.99

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon S3GoDaddy
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    as low as $6.99
    per month with an annual term
    Basic
    as low as $10.49
    per month with an annual term
    Premium
    as low as $13.49
    per month with an annual term
    Commerce
    as low as $14.99
    per month with an annual term
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3GoDaddy
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discounts available for annual subscription.
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    GoDaddy
    Chose GoDaddy
    If you want to host your a little mom and pop shop's website, any host will do. Use Bluehost or one of the many other CPANEL hosts out there. If you're in the buisness of doing serious web applications or hosting significant products or sites, then go with Rackspace or AWS. I'm …
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    76%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    Amazon S3GoDaddy
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and GoDaddy
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    0% above category average
    GoDaddy
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    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 GoDaddy
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    GoDaddy
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    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
    WebWave
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    10Web
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3GoDaddy
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (77 ratings)
    8.1
    (57 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3GoDaddy
    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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    GoDaddy
    Good for transferring over an existing site. Truth be told, I haven't used it for building a brand new site-- I know that this is a fairly common thing but I just never needed it. For what I've used it for, it has worked well. For a small business with anyone with a little bit of technical skill, it's surprisingly good.
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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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    GoDaddy
    • Registering a domain - I've found their site to be the easiest to navigate
    • Website builder - their website builder is user friendly
    • Email hosting - easy to set up and use, wether in an email app or online email.
    • Wordpress hosting - I have multiple wordpress sites I use under one account
    • Their customer service is always very helpful and easy to contact.
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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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    GoDaddy
    • Support agents are woefully undertrained, even in knowledge of their own products.
    • Support agents will always try to upsell you, even when you're dealing with an urgent, high-impact issue.
    • There's no guarantee of uptime, and there will often be gaps in service as part of normal procedures.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    GoDaddy
    We can't really choose anyone else and the cost/effort of moving all of the hosted data would be extremely large, and we just have to stick to them, and hope they improve service
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    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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    GoDaddy
    Some integration could be much cleaner and smoother. Seems it used to be easier. Plus, they took away the catch all email feature.
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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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    GoDaddy
    I think a lot of companies can learn from GoDaddy's support team. I have found:
    • Chat or phone support is almost always available.
    • Their agents are friendly and helpful.
    • Their agents seem to care and be knowledgeable about a wide range of issues.
    • I rarely have to escalate my problem to get the support that I need.
    • If they can't help me, then they can tell me why something is happening and direct me to resources that can fix my problem.
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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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    GoDaddy
    We use Wix currently for our online store. It is nice and easy to use, but they don't offer the email domains as well (the last time we checked). They have pretty decent customization of the web page, but still limited. We're going to try it with GoDaddy, since we have other services from them already. It just doesn't make sense to pay two different companies for something we can do with one.
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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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    GoDaddy
    • GoDaddy reduces our ROI by costing me in non-billable hours. I don't charge clients for sitting on the phone with tech support to power cycle the server or fix the php.ini file, so my $/hr takes a hit.
    • Their nickel&dime strategy requires I have an additional conversation with clients about their max recurring fees. Small as they are, I need approval for upping their bill. GoDaddy is only the cheap option if you don't value security, stability, or performance.
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