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    Overview
    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

    IONOS Cloud

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AIONOS Cloud is the company's suite of IaaS products for businesses. These IaaS products include a compute engine, storage and backup, network services (e.g. load balancing), managed Kubernetes cloud-based data center monitoring, DBaaS services (MySQL, Oracle Databases, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis), as well as dedicated servers.

    $0.01

    per hour

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon S3IONOS CloudSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    1 GB RAM
    $0.0071
    per hour
    Reserved IP Address
    $6
    per 30 days
    1 Core (AMD & Intel® Core™)
    from$0.0240
    per hour
    1 GB Storage (options between HDD & SSD)
    from$0.0533
    per 30 days
    1 GB Traffic (free incoming & internal traffic)
    from$0.0360
    per GB
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3IONOS CloudSnowflake
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon S3IONOS CloudSnowflake
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    IONOS, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    Chose Snowflake
    Since we switch from Amazon Redshift to Snowflake, we found Snowflake is much better than redshift in many ways, including the data integrate and data pull. However, comparing directly pull data from Amazon S3, Snowflake is quite slow in terms of data pull speed and the more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Snowflake
    I evaluated Redshift and Panoply when making the choice for Snowflake. Panoply is built on Redshift, so the two are equal in drawbacks: Redshift requires a cluster to be running 24/7 for your data to live there. We produce terabytes of data every day, so this was not an option …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
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    100%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    30 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    Amazon S3IONOS CloudSnowflake
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and IONOS Cloud and Snowflake
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    0% above category average
    IONOS Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery8.410 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.310 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.47 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.57 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.210 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.14 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.511 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots8.67 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.011 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.610 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.510 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.17 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.58 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and IONOS Cloud and Snowflake
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    IONOS Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection9.510 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication8.410 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.811 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities8.511 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon S3IONOS CloudSnowflake
    Small Businesses
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    SAP Datasphere
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3IONOS CloudSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (77 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3IONOS CloudSnowflake
    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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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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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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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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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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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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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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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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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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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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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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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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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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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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