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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
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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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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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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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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
- S3 is low maintenance so saves a lot of time and money.
- S3 is cheaper and better quality than most competitors.
- S3 is more established than many competitors.
July 01, 2021
Storage, yes, but simple. Not for everyone.
- Simple hosting
- Fast to get up and running
- Easy integration
- Reliable/no downtime
June 28, 2021
It's simple. That's the point.
- Disaster recovery
- Support capability
- Security audit
June 23, 2021
Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
- Cost effective backup storage for pennies per GB. We have been able to maintain customer backups as part of our base service fees. The costs are usually so low, we can offer an affordable backup to our customers without added cost to them making us more competitive.
- One small slip of the delete command by one of system administrators wiped out our entire web directory for one of our biggest clients. We had it restored from backup in minutes. Our client didn't even notice that there service had gone down until we sent an email notifying them of our slip up.
- This was a lesson learned early on in our business, but Amazon S3 made it a small hiccup not a catastrophic event that cost us money.
June 20, 2021
Great for archive data & web apps via API
- Guaranteed data integrity.
- Secure storage for uploaded data via web.
- No more NAS/External HDD/CD requirements.
- Vast amounts of data storage has let us grow without limitation.
- We do need to babysit the costs since it is one of our most expensive products due to sheer scale.
- S3 has let us move off of really expensive Databases which was a huge win.
April 29, 2021
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - A Highly Economical, Simple and Easy-to-Use Data Store with Amazing Features
- Saves money.
- Solves a lot of problems.
- Helps application and operations work more efficiently using its different features.
- Saves time.
April 20, 2021
best storage to use comfortably
- Big Data analytics
- pricing is designed so well
- Different storage classes
April 15, 2021
Simple to use but errors may lead to wrong conclusions
- It is easy to use and everyone understands it.
- Down side is that errors are not very informative and led to some headache to IT admins.
April 15, 2021
We are happy with AWS S3
- We store files consumed by customers, can't apply ROI to it directly.
April 15, 2021
S3 is the best choice for asset hosting, from client assets through to your entire website frontend.
- The time savings of using S3's advanced features versus implementing our own web hosting or asset services is the biggest ROI-- it's a fast-to-use platform that you'll never need to migrate away from because it's so stable and effective.
- The costs of maintaining local asset hosting (once you factor in maintenance and labor costs) consistently exceeds (and underperforms) what S3 can provide.
- S3 provides an easy introduction to the AWS ecosystem for companies who are new to its technology. Learning an applying S3 can be done without advanced training or experience, while simultaneously it'll teach you many of the conventions used throughout AWS.
April 15, 2021
Review of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- Allows us to store large amounts of raw traffic from data providers to allow us to view data our systems received at particular times, in order to reconstruct inputs in case of errors
- Is capable of storing very large amounts of data cheaply without material impact to our business
April 15, 2021
S3 stores any kind of object you want!
- Positive: easy to integrate to have the app up and running quickly with S3 integrated
- Negative: how to handle the permissions and the UI
April 14, 2021
S3 is a must!
- Out Time-to-Market lowered a lot using this tool
- We have a new backup option
- Central location to all data of a application
April 14, 2021
Amazon S3 lives up to the name simple storage service
- It has allowed us to get rid of our Active Directory
April 14, 2021
Amazon S3 is reliable and good value
- Saving money by not having to buy servers with hard drive space
- Fast international access to web assets means we can do business in foreign countries
- Almost unlimited cheap storage means we can save time not having to restructure, delete and clean up old files regularly.
- Development of storage-based user applications has been accelerated by 5-6%
- Query performance on large datasets increased by 15-20%
- Storage cost for large files reduced by 30%
April 14, 2021
S3 Storage is the only way to go
- No more need to maintain in-house storage such as servers or bulky external harddrives (that can easily be lost or damaged)
- Easy to collaborate and share files with other team members
- S3 Static Website hosting is great for short term web pages or sharing sites still in Development
February 25, 2020
One of the best cloud storage services
- Customer-ready.
- Secure and robust offering.
- The amount of time we've saved deploying our websites and files to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has been tremendous. The other option would have been to host them ourselves in a dedicated server.
- We've saved a requisite amount of money by hosting our static websites in an Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) bucket instead of VPS.
December 07, 2019
Great for any organization at a reasonable cost
- Our ROI has been great since we have been able to build out a storage solution in a cost effective manner.
- All of our business objectives have been by enables our entire organization a central location to storage all data.
- S3 has enabled better collaboration between departments.
- ROI has been great for our organization since S3 enabled us to build out a remote backup solution on the cheap.
- We have been able to improve our IT infrastructure reliability and reduce down time.
October 17, 2019
S3 handles your file storage needs
- Being able to quickly access AWS S3 from our AWS EC2 instances saved us a lot of time and headache and proved cost-effective as well.
September 27, 2019
Simple Storage Service that does a lot more than just providing simple storage for you
- S3 can be a really great service for a company if used properly. We have had troubles related to billing because we had not spent some time understanding the pricing. Understand costs that will be incurred in setting up your system in a way that inter-regional data transfer will happen, or a lot of old versions of objects are stored.
- S3 basically takes away all the maintenance headache of storing your data in cloud. It is durable, scalable and reliable. So, it saves a lot of resources that would be otherwise wasted accomplishing all that. You do not have to worry about servers and the capacity you need to provision for them. S3 takes care of all that for you.
- S3 integrates seamlessly with many other services. My personal favorite is where we use a trigger of S3 upload to invoke a lambda function to process the contents and raise an alarm if there is a validation error. This simple set up will be relatively difficult to implement if you were to use simple servers to store your data.
September 23, 2019
AWS S3 is powerful and fast, but it comes at a cost
- S3 has helped us usefully version and archive static content, and once we got that up and running the ongoing maintenance costs and effort have been quite low.
- S3's interactions with CloudFront, on the other hand, are often counter-intuitive and resulted in us abandoning a project to make use of CloudFront partway through.