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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.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Review
10+ years of experience with Amazon S3
Storage, yes, but simple. Not for everyone.
It's simple. That's the point.
Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
Great for archive data & web apps via API
Amazon S3 - Storage as far as the eye can see; and then further
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - A Highly Economical, Simple and Easy-to-Use Data Store with Amazing Features
best storage to use comfortably
Simple to use but errors may lead to wrong conclusions
We are happy with AWS S3
S3 is the best choice for asset hosting, from client assets through to your entire website frontend.
Review of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
S3 stores any kind of object you want!
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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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(1-25 of 68)A true view on S3
- Image and files uploading is very quick.
- Image loading is very fast no lack of images.
- Provides in cache memory for the quick responses
- Costing is too much, They can reduce the cost
- Configuration at the AWS portal is little bit difficult for beginners they can improve.
- Library to use the S3 can be lighter
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Review
- Favorable costs
- Ease of integrations
- Storage classes suited to various needs
- Powerful via CLI
- Storage classes/tiers change often
- Flat structure has slight learning curve
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) in console has limited options
10+ years of experience with Amazon S3
- It is easy to do backups.
- It is easy to host static resources.
- It is easy to host simple web sites.
- S3 could be cheaper. Right now it is more expensive than dedicated hosting on average.
- S3 has room for improvement in Analytics and reporting.
Storage, yes, but simple. Not for everyone.
- Scalable
- Reliable
- Well documented
- Hard to use
- Not for non-developers
- Bad online UI
It's simple. That's the point.
- Durability
- Easy access
- Interop with AWS products as well as third party vendors.
- Finding files in large buckets.
- Simplify permissions.
- More transparent compression.
Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
- Cost effective
- Easy setup
- Setup and forget
- Multiple data centres
- Free first year!
- Bills in local currency
- Can set a budget
- Global unique bucket names
- Costs vary per region
- Costs could balloon
Great for archive data & web apps via API
- Low cost
- Multiple tiers of storage
- Great API
- Not a lot of features.
- Can be complex to set up properly.
- Storing mass amount of data.
- Cheap storage options.
- Versioning of objects.
- Different cost tiers for what you need.
- Notifications on Object changes.
- The UI is clunky and not great.
- It can get costly fast depending on how you use it.
- There are underlying/unknown issues that make you have to consider how to store you data to achieve maximum rewards.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - A Highly Economical, Simple and Easy-to-Use Data Store with Amazing Features
- Fast as Key-Value Store.
- Save as many data as you want.
- Cheap.
- Easy to use.
- Versioning.
- Ability to create events.
- Object searching.
- Filter data by suffix.
- More fast and economical query method.
best storage to use comfortably
- More security and safety
- Flexibility for options
- simple to use
- Integration
- When the document is erased the record is [not immediately] noticeable since S3 sets aside some effort to refresh. This occasionally makes disarray
- pricing
- AWS S3 is not compatible with desktops
Simple to use but errors may lead to wrong conclusions
- Easy to upload.
- Easy to access.
- Simple web interface.
- Too many options for regular user.
- Doesn't check centrally set policies and creates errors that do not represent the problem.
We are happy with AWS S3
- Scales automatically.
- Is always available.
- Is cost effective with different storage tiers.
- Slow access.
- Difficult to manage files on large repositories.
- Users are locked on it as migration to other services isn't easy or cheap.
S3 is the best choice for asset hosting, from client assets through to your entire website frontend.
- 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.
- The whole AWS ecosystem has a lot of confusing and unintuitive configuration options, and S3 is no exception. Thankfully it's so broadly used that you can reliably find solutions on external sites like StackOverflow.
- Getting IAM permissions just right for Static Website hosting require a little trial and error since S3 defaults to security instead of open access.
- While S3's file type inference is decent, some new file types (such as .wasm) aren't inferred correctly, so you have to configure their MIME types after uploading them in order for them to serve correctly.
Review of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- Highly available and redundant; we do not worry about the service having downtime
- Simple usage from multiple different frameworks using Amazon's SDKs, or roll your own
- A large number of bucket policies and security adjustments to tailor usage to customer needs
- Regional support for storing assets in particular locations around the world
- 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
S3 stores any kind of object you want!
- store any kind of file
- store static content for websites
- store logs and backups
- set up different policies
- It still needs to integrate with different ecosystems
- They need to improve the search. They should offer more options.
S3 is a must!
- Static Website Hosting
- Files needed by applications
- Backup
- Default bucket limit (i think it needed to be more)
- Graphical ACLs
- Cheaper FTP / SFTP price
Amazon S3 lives up to the name simple storage service
- Lost cost
- Easy access from our AWS services
- Works well serving files to our users
- A simple file management interface would be welcome.
Amazon S3 is reliable and good value
- File storage
- Reliability
- Speed
- Value for money
- Better explanation of the security features
- Status alerts when put uploads are propagated to different edge locations so you know the customer is getting the latest version of the file.
- A hard drive syncing application like Google Drive sync and one drive sync.
- Quick access for large file storage
- Emulating a file system through S3FS
- Versioning objects within buckets
- Fine-grained access control
- Serving as backend file storage for many types of applications running on AWS
- Needs more convenience functions for managing files
- Could provide more integrations with traditional relational databases
- Could use even more granular access controls, for example on the object/prefix level
S3 Storage is the only way to go
- Highly Available
- Fast upload/download times
- Supports pretty much any type of file
- Can host static websites
- Very Secure
- Integrated seamlessly with other AWS products
- Deleting files involves extra steps
- Setting up Security/Access Lists can be difficult if you're not familiar with AWS IAM
- Some of the files size caps can be cumbersome for video
- Naming Conventions of Buckets is restrictive
One of the best cloud storage services
- Host static websites.
- Store data as object and key.
- Needs to integrate with multiple ecosystems.
- Integration with Route 53 is difficult for hosting.
- Outstanding UI/UX (drag & drop features help a lot)
- Per-file permission system (make a file public or not)
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) does not provide SSL. Right now, you always need to use Cloudfront if you want to have SSL.
Great for any organization at a reasonable cost
- Centralized location for all your organizations data.
- Great 3rd party API and integration.
- Cost effective if properly monitored and maintained.
- Ease to use and set-up.
- Permissions can become complex.
- UI needs to be updated and looks dated.
- Tech support should be improved.
- Very simple to setup and administer.
- Can grow with your storage needs.
- Cost effective.
- Geo redundant.
- Fault tolerant and reliable.
- If not managed correct it could get expensive.
- Searching needs to be improved and is not effective.
- Better reporting would be great.
S3 handles your file storage needs
- Ability to have files switched over to long term storage after inactivity.
- Backups of files available if a loss occurs.
- Access to files as needed from multiple points and availability.
- Region availability all over the globe.
- Easier API integration and better documentation.