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Amazon S3 vs Panzura

Amazon S3

146 Ratings

Panzura

2 Ratings

Amazon S3

146 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 101

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Panzura

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Score 10 out of 101

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Amazon S3

I feel S3 is best used by a company looking to primarily use it as a safe and secure location to store high-availability data, leaving the additional services as an option for future expansions. Myself, and several other cloud architects I have spoken with have shared another scenario that fits S3, and other AWS services quite well, which is a startup using the free-tier with the Activate program. If done correctly, several S3 capabilities can be employed to offload tasks from underpowered virtual servers, letting the entire system become faster and more reliable.

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Panzura

I believe Panzura can fit into any company structure.

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Pros

  • Allows for ease of setting up multiple buckets to keep your assets organized
  • Gives you the option of keeping your images public or private - good for keeping your image storage organized with what you want to exposed/not exposed to users
  • Allows for easy integration with other AWS products

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  • Real time file locking
  • Backup and recovery
  • Easy access to all your files

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Cons

  • Security configuration can be a little confusing and sometimes requires making completely new accounts.

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  • Faster browsing of photos

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Alternatives Considered

Several issues with Dropbox where it was hard to set up in the application I was using and once it was set up it would work fine but then become disconnected for really no reason and the support from Dropbox was not that great. The one time that I had to bring back a backup it was slow and the connection dropped several times making it start over again. On the escrow side, I never could get it to link with our software

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There are several other devices but Panzura is best of class.

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Return on Investment

  • The main ROI benefit of S3 is reduction in storage costs, and an improved backup system for our clients.

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  • People are always working on the latest copy of their files. Since we implemented Panzura no files have [been] overwritten and [no] data has been lost.

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Pricing Details

Amazon S3

General
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No
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Panzura

General
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
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