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Amazon S3

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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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Product Details

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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Amazon S3 are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use S3 for reliably and securely storing audios, medical transcriptions, application logs and pretty much everything else. S3 is our go-to cloud storage service as we are already invested in many other core AWS services like EC2, RDS and CloudWatch. We have been using S3 for around 10 years now, and so far, we have never had an issue with it.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use S3 to host customer-facing static content. It's a reliable, inexpensive and API-controllable way to do this, which has allowed us to build up in-house publishing workflows that push content to S3 on-demand as it's created. We initially considered using this in tandem with Cloud Front for global edge caching, but have since decided that S3 alone is sufficient for our needs.
Bryan McAnulty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a digital product design and development company. When we build a new web or mobile app, the service we choose to use for application and database hosting may vary, but for serving static assets like images and other file downloads, we are always using Amazon S3. S3 combined with Amazon Cloudfront lets us serve static assets to our users and customers without having to worry about performance.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
S3 is a great cost effective static file storage tool that can be accessed from anywhere. We store all kinds of static files in S3 ranging from application data to configuration files to code and automation scripts. S3's access is controlled by IAM roles which allow for strict and tight control over which users are allowed to access which files.
Evan Laird | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon S3 is used in our mobile applications inorder to have users upload images to the cloud and bring them back to their device. So when users upload an image, it gets sent to Amazon S3 and when an image is shown on the screen we are also pulling it from the same place lowering the load on our apps. It's used as storage for images only.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

We are using S3 for storing compliance generated by various internal tools. The reports are not frequently accessed but we have legal guidelines for retention. We also use s3 to host static web interfaces with links to the document. It makes really easy to access the documents anywhere. We also use s3 to store various inputs to other AWS services such as AWS Sagemaker.


Apurv Doshi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mostly use S3 for storage of compliance documents, cloud formation scripts, heavy media files and other materials which need to preserve but used infrequently. We also host some of the static webpages which are just a navigator to the documents.
One of the other most prominent use which we do with S3 is to transfer large files. With strict IMA policies, we can make sure of proper access to these files. While we use other AWS services like EC2 to host machine for any computation purpose, we need to store interim results and final results. We store these results to S3 and kill the EC2 instance.
Also, we have scripts written for transferring S3 objects (not used for more than 2 years) to Glacier to minimize cost factor.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon S3 for hosting all of our backups, our Apache Spark output files (in lieu of HDFS), our Snowflake external stages, our static website, etc. Additionally, we migrate our logs there for historical purposes. As far as file storage goes, it is able to meet all of our needs with little-to-no downtime.
Willian Molinari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon S3 is used to store all assets from our users. We store profile pictures, message attachments, and other user-related assets. We currently use Heroku to serve the application and it requires an external storage for these kinds of assets. We chose Amazon S3 because it's the most well known and trusted service for this.
Chris Barretto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product is being used across the whole organization as a scalable file store for a variety of different file types. It is highly accessible (distributed CDNs) and very easily integrated into our system.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon S3 is being widely used in our projects for multiple purposes. We are using S3 for storing deployment packages of our microservices. These services are automatically uploaded to S3 buckets thanks to S3 API and serverless application model. Also, we are using S3 Static web serving feature to serve our projects' APIs. It is a powerful feature which you can easily configure and publish your static website.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The most popular IaaS service out there, Amazon S3 offers good infrastructure, speeds, API support, command line interface and also a great user interface for web access. We are using AWS services to support our business and hosting all the datasets on S3. S3 is typically used to upload and download content, and storing application-specific data. Also, this cloud-based service is HIPAA compliance, so we can store sensitive dataset without any compliance issues and security concerns. Enterprises can keep data secure, processes compliant and teams on the same page.
Bob Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon S3 is a foundational element used throughout our organization. It is used by applications to store documents, archive phone calls, store/share files, retain backups, transfer files to/from customers, etc.

It allows us to set metadata which also allows files to clean up after itself, which prevents our organization from storing information longer than needed which is wonderful (and keeps us only paying for what we really need to store). S3 is our go-to for any cloud storage needs as well as a location to host static content distributed through Cloudfront and provide public access to files as needed.
Justin Germino | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my case, I am using Amazon S3 with the Associated Cloud Front to host all my WordPress site static content and media to avoid overloading the web hosting provider. Leveraging the combination of Amazon S3 and CloudFront provides faster access to media files, content caching, and avoids unnecessary resource drain on the web server hosting resources directly.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon S3 is being used as a way for us to securely and reliably store our company's website and data. We use it to host a numerous amount of exceptionally critical data. In terms of data hosting, there simply isn't any better alternative. Amazon S3 helps us to manage and store our data in such a simple, user-friendly way that has become exceptionally beneficial to our business model.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization is using Amazon S3 to host all of our assets for each of our products. It is primarily being used by the engineering teams but is being used across the organization as well. Our marketing team also uses it for image assets for email marketing as well as custom image uploads for our route tiles on our site.
Andrew Raines | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use S3 for the storage of all our of static web assets (images, videos, audio, etc), user-uploaded data, internal log files, and backups. In addition to the storage uses, we also use the static website hosting feature for some of our web-based services. This is a particularly cost-effective way of getting a website online - either a small and simple HTML-based site or a complex single-page web application.
Justin Schroeder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use S3 for everything imaginable, but particularly for storing larger assets like images, video, isos or data files. This allows us to purchase much smaller nodes in terms of attached SSDs. The cost of S3 for storage is almost a non-issue for anything in the sub-terabyte range, especially when compared to the price of larger EC2, Rackspace, or digital ocean instances.
January 16, 2018

S3 for Cloud Backup

Bill Greganti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using S3 for off-site storage of backup data using a variety of backup client software. We utilize multiple Amazon sites for redundancy when needed. Some data is stored in our account using our software for our clients, and some data is stored in the client's account which we manage.
Akmal Muqeeth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon s3 throughout the company to solve different problems and use cases. We have used s3 to store images, as a data back up, to host static web pages and even as an intermediary between SQS and SNS to store event files. Most recently, we have used S3 to power our applications view history.
October 13, 2017

Amazon S3 is great

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon S3 for a lot of storage needs. We use this internally to connect with Salesforce and send our data as back up, as well as post our files/images/other related content to Amazon S3 rather than using up our data storage in Salesforce which is more expensive, this is the story of many of our clients as well. It's just a much quicker access point because of the nature of it being Amazon.
Robb Glietz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using S3 in two different areas of the company, the first is to store backups for our WordPress websites, we have 10 different sites so each site has an automated process where every day they upload critical framework data to the different files I set up on S3. The second area where we use it is for archiving of BLOB's from our escrow software. The software saves documents which are used in the escrow in BLOB format. Using the automated process in the escrow software every sixty days the BLOB's are uploaded into the S3 folder setup for it.
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