Amazon S3 vs StorSimple

Amazon S3

Each input/output over a certain amount is charged so s3 is not useful as a mounted drive or frequently accessed storage. S3 is great for low I/O storage.

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Carl Schwarz

Business Owner

Schwarz SoftwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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StorSimple

Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.

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Scott Lerner

Director of IT

Graham-Field Health ProductsHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Pros

AWS S3 is a secure service with variety of encryption services available, it is a best bet. We encrypt most of our data using AWS KMS (Client-Side) encryption where we manage the key and the data is secure on the servers.
We started using S3 to overcome the cost of maintaining the data nodes on Hadoop EMR just for the sole purpose of storing data as it was way expensive than storing the data on S3.
Due to its nature to scale infinitely and also availability we had to choose this platform to make sure our app's have maximum availability.
Not to mention the durability and the easy to manage nature of S3.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance via the SSD drives.
Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure.
Easy to Admin via Web client interface.

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Scott Lerner

Director of IT

Graham-Field Health ProductsHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Ease of use - Pretty difficult to setup if you aren't in the industry. Not something a notice user can setup without spending some time with it.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Additional fail-over functionality

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Scott Lerner

Director of IT

Graham-Field Health ProductsHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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StorSimple10.0

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If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for.

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Scott Lerner

Director of IT

Graham-Field Health ProductsHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I haven't been personally involved in the decision to use S3, but in comparison to Dropbox or Google Drive, this offers a less robust UI to modify things, while being a cheaper storage mechanism over the rest.

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Anudeep Palanki

Software Developer

Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees

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Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment

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Scott Lerner

Director of IT

Graham-Field Health ProductsHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

We reduced the amount of money we were spending to store massive amounts of data in the cloud.
We were able to digitize all of our paper documents and store them in the cloud which helped us gain some office space back.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

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