Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) vs. Impossible Cloud Object Storage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon S3
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Amazon 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
Impossible Cloud Object Storage
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Impossible Cloud Storage is an S3-compatible object storage platform and AWS S3 alternative for organizations that need scalable backup and archive storage. The platform provides GDPR-compliant object storage in a European sovereign cloud, with controls for data location, access, retention and data protection. Impossible Cloud supports use cases such as backup, disaster recovery, tape-to-cloud transitions, ransomware protection, media workflows, telemetry data and…
$7.99
per month Per Terabyte
Pricing
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)Impossible Cloud Object Storage
Editions & Modules
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Pay-as-you-go
$7.99
per month Per TB/month
Reserved Capacity Plan
Discounted price
1, 3 & 5 year commitment on capacity starting at 25TB Per TB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon S3Impossible Cloud Object Storage
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPay-as-you-go: $7.99 per TB per month, billed monthly, no minimum commitment. Reserved Capacity Plans available for capacity starting at 25 TB with 1, 3, or 5 year commitments, including assisted migration and personal support at no extra cost. No egress fees. No API call charges. No minimum storage duration. No setup fees. 30-day free trial available.
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Features
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)Impossible Cloud Object Storage
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
8.7
11 Ratings
1% above category average
Impossible Cloud Object Storage
-
Ratings
Universal recovery8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.310 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard7.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.68 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
8.6
11 Ratings
1% above category average
Impossible Cloud Object Storage
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Ratings
Continuous data protection9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities8.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
-
Ratings
Impossible Cloud Object Storage
10.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
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Ratings
Impossible Cloud Object Storage
9.0
1 Ratings
4% above category average
User and role management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
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Ratings
Impossible Cloud Object Storage
9.0
1 Ratings
4% above category average
Performance00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Reliability00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Storage Reports00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
User Ratings
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)Impossible Cloud Object Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(77 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(15 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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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Impossible Cloud
I would recommend Impossible Cloud to anyone looking for an affordable, easy-to-scale cloud backup solution. For us, it was super important that our data is stored in a GDPR-compliant setup, where we know where it is. Having different data centers in Europe keeps the latency low. So if anything happens, we can get our data back quickly. Finally, the support was super fast and helpful.
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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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Impossible Cloud
  • Easy setup.
  • Fast support time.
  • European sovereign GDPR compliant solution.
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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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Impossible Cloud
  • UX could be a bit smoother.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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Impossible Cloud
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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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Impossible Cloud
It's super fast to set up. Add your bucket, and you're basically good to go and can run your backup. Also, it connects to the common backup tools (in our case, Veeam), so we didn't have to change anything in our setup except the place where our data is actually stored.
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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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Impossible Cloud
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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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Impossible Cloud
In the end, the most important thing for us was full control over our data and a European solution. With it (luckily for us) came a cheaper price tag and better speed. Finally, you are not a ticket in a support center, but a valued customer. We could really feel that in the way the Impossible Cloud support team helped us when we ran into an issue.
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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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Impossible Cloud
  • We are saving money - cheap storage and no fees.
  • We can run our backup tests and don't have to worry about fees.
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ScreenShots

Impossible Cloud Object Storage Screenshots

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