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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.
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What is Amazon S3?
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. It provides great utility for storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.
It is suitable for businesses or organizations of any size to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 provides management features for organizing data and configuring access controls to meet business, organizational, and compliance requirements.
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What is Amazon S3?
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.
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September 14, 2021
10+ years of experience with Amazon S3
I think [Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)] is cheaper than Azure Blob Storage (at least at the time I selected it). It is a low maintenance product and it is more reliable.
July 01, 2021
Storage, yes, but simple. Not for everyone.
- CloudFlare and Dropbox
S3 is still being used within our org but we have dialed it back heavily due to the inexpensive competing product CloudFlare offers. CloudFlare is basically free for the same functionality and the company has matured to the point where it is reliable and scalable, plus CDN distribution is their bread and butter on top of that. If we were starting over today I'd start with CloudFlare.
June 23, 2021
Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
April 29, 2021
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - A Highly Economical, Simple and Easy-to-Use Data Store with Amazing Features
- Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), DigitalOcean Spaces, Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage
All other alternatives are also good but as our infrastructure was on AWS, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) was a better choice due to its better integration with other AWS services. It was serving the purpose in an economical way. All of our needs were being fulfilled by that tool so went with that.
April 20, 2021
best storage to use comfortably
- Azure AI (Cortana) and ADP DataCloud
Amazon S3 is the business driving arrangement by Amazon Web Services. It has answers for all startup's and huge venture. The expense viability is one reason that I have chosen the Amazon S3 over other
April 15, 2021
Simple to use but errors may lead to wrong conclusions
- Azure Blob Storage and Box
We are an AWS shop, thus it is much easier to use with other AWS services. It may not always be the cheapest but once you are in AWS if you can decouple your apps and use this as one of your services it will certainly make developer's life easier and admin life easier.
April 15, 2021
We are happy with AWS S3
Better price and easier to use.
April 15, 2021
S3 is the best choice for asset hosting, from client assets through to your entire website frontend.
S3 is the most mature simple storage service on the web. It has direct competitors from Google and Azure, as well as a bunch of other competitors that focus on different aspects. For example, Backblaze specializes on file backups, and while s3 can also be used for that, Backblaze provides a better price point in exchange for more focused functionality. S3 really shines in that it performs simple things astonishingly well, while also being flexible enough to stretch itself to other situations (data lakes, file mounts, backup/restores systems, web hosting, etc.).
April 15, 2021
Review of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
We had already decided to use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for other compute services, so it made sense to use Amazon for blob storage as well. By using the same cloud vendor, we can more easily integrate between AWS services like Cloudfront. Blob storage is essentially a commodity business, and S3 does not offer anything specific to us to drive adoption aside from the simplicity of integration.
April 15, 2021
S3 stores any kind of object you want!
Amazon S3 provides a variety of tools for uploading short and large objects to the cloud. AWS S3 is a key-value store, one of the major categories of NoSQL databases used for accumulating voluminous, mutating, unstructured, or semistructured data. S3 object retrieval is fast. S3 stored objects are safe under AWS infrastructure.
April 14, 2021
S3 is a must!
They're both great. I really don't know the differences, but both have the same basic set of features, in my opinion. But, S3 is widely know as a greater tool, safer, and much easier. Also, it's used by and compatible with a lot of applications around the world. That made us decide using S3.
April 14, 2021
Amazon S3 lives up to the name simple storage service
April 14, 2021
Amazon S3 is reliable and good value
- Google Drive and Dropbox
The main differences are that S3 files can be accessed publicly without having an account on the service so it is suitable for website assets, but the other services have desktop hard drive syncing applications so they are more suitable for sharing files to other staff in the company.
Google Cloud Storage provides many of the same features as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), but they differ quite a bit in the database integrations they provide. The main reason we had to use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is because our main infrastructure cloud provider was AWS and our applications were integrated to the specific DBs that pulled data from Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), such as AWS Redshift, which AWS provided.
April 14, 2021
S3 Storage is the only way to go
AWS probably has the most difficult UI to learn but it's the far better service.
Google is probably second but it has storage limitations and there are some security concerns (still a good tool for collaboration)
The Microsoft products are the worst IMO. They're slow and have the poorest UX. Microsoft Teams/One Drive are especially cumbersome when it comes to managing large files (Video)
Google is probably second but it has storage limitations and there are some security concerns (still a good tool for collaboration)
The Microsoft products are the worst IMO. They're slow and have the poorest UX. Microsoft Teams/One Drive are especially cumbersome when it comes to managing large files (Video)
February 25, 2020
One of the best cloud storage services
Most of our customers are on AWS so it's easy for us to integrate it with AWS S3 and we could deliver our projects on or before the expected time.
December 07, 2019
Great for any organization at a reasonable cost
Amazon S3 is more cost-effective then what Microsoft Azure offers.
We initially looked at CloudBerry but they did not integrate into our NAS hardware out of the box like Amazon S3 did.
October 17, 2019
S3 handles your file storage needs
AWS S3 isn't really comparable to AWS EC2 since they are typically separate services that are to be used together and don't do the same things. They do work well together though.
September 12, 2019
Perfect solution for web and mobile application asset and media storage
Since we use other AWS products, and since AWS and S3 are more familiar to developers, it is easier for us to stick with Amazon S3 over a similar solution like Google Cloud Storage.
September 11, 2019
S3 is a great static file hosting service
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
S3 and EBS/EFS both host files, but they are very different. S3 is great for static files where EBS/EFS are more intended for files that are frequently modified. S3 is also much better for public files like images, videos, HTML/CSS files, and other web resources that are downloaded by lots and lots of users.
September 09, 2019
Amazon S3 - It's truly a Simple Storage Service
Amazon S3 compared to all of these has the worst user interface. Drive and Dropbox as everyone knows is simpler and used for shared work files with a user-friendly interface. Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3 are both in the same boat for large application files and great for programmatic storage. Both inexpensive and the only reason to choose one over the other is if you are running your application on Amazon or Google to keep everything in one place.
September 08, 2019
S3 is cost effective, works well, and provides many service levels.
S3 provides an on-demand usage model for storage. You only pay for what you use. Nutanix is an on-premises solution and does not allow for usage-based pricing. Azure was less integrated with our current AWS workloads which helped drive our decision to use s3 with the Amazon Cloud.
September 06, 2019
Amazon S3: An Easy and Efficient Cloud Storage Option
We have not used any other alternative for S3 as we find it more than what we actually need for.
September 05, 2019
S3, the entry drug to AWS
Whether you want to use AWS or not is generally the reason why you would want to use S3. Its feature set and price point are comparable to others (B2/ Drive), but you get the access to AWS. If I had all the time in the world, I would go the B2 route, but the integrations are not as good.