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Attribute Ratings
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- Panzura CloudFS is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
Amazon S3
92%
66 Ratings

9.0
Panzura CloudFS
90%
3 Ratings
Usability
7.7
Amazon S3
77%
10 Ratings

Panzura CloudFS
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
9.7
Amazon S3
97%
38 Ratings

10.0
Panzura CloudFS
100%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon S3
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.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 1-10 employeesPanzura CloudFS
Panzura works well for companies that have a high amount of data with cross site collaboration being done. The caching ensures you don't need huge investments of storage at each site and the cloud storage ensures high availability over what can be done locally. Also helps eliminate duplicate data across sites and/or small variations in the same data.
Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor
KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees
Pros
Amazon S3
- 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.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesPanzura CloudFS
- Real time file locking
- Backup and recovery
- Easy access to all your files
Vice President of IT, Principal
Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Amazon S3
- 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
Head of Engineering
Jock MKTComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Panzura CloudFS
- I would like to see more connectors. Tie in to traditional block storage or NAS. Additional cloud connectors to products like Hitachi Content Platform.
- I would like to see a collaborative product created between Panzura and Riverbed. I envision an almost perfect small footprint ROBO solution where Riverbed provides the compute+WAN optimization and Panzura provides the storage/risiliancy components. Combine the boxes into a single 4U solution and you have a near perfect product for remote offices.
Storage Engineer
Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Amazon S3
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Panzura CloudFS
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Usability
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 7.7
Based on 10 answers
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.
IT Systems & Telephony Administrator
Ignite Travel GroupAirlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees
Panzura CloudFS
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 9.7
Based on 38 answers
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employeesPanzura CloudFS
Panzura CloudFS 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Hands down support is the best part of Panzura. Their techs are always helpful, always knowledgeable, and consistently solve complex problems quickly. You can definitely tell they hire their support folks from the top tier of other companies and they go above and beyond what I have come to expect in terms of support compared to other companies.
Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor
KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees
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.

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 11-50 employeesPanzura CloudFS
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 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
Panzura CloudFS
- 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