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Amazon S3 Review
July 15, 2016

Amazon S3 Review

Dominic Cheah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Amazon S3 is used as an archiving solution and for object storage. Additionally, our corporate storage solution also allows us to automatically tier any longer term archive requirements to an Amazon public cloud should our clients have that requirement. This provides a unique and robust solution that can meet our customers' needs.
  • Dev ops, storage and archiving - The capability of Amazon S3 to fulfill these requirements is pretty cool in my opinion.
  • The always-on and always available cloud storage solution is bar none.
  • Security - The first time that I had used Amazon S3 and EC2 was an eye opening experience. The security considerations that Amazon took into account in developing their cloud solution is amazing. There's IAM management, key management etc. Take a drive of Amazon's solution and you'll realize the security considerations they've taken to protect and secure your data.
  • Applications - There is pretty much 100s of applications on Amazon that are supported with S3.
  • I think Amazon is already doing a lot of good things and making improvements. I'm pretty sure there's a few skunk works already in progress to tackle functionality. :)
  • It has been positive. We can tier our storage solution to Amazon S3 but very few other competitors can say that. Our call to action is to help our customers fulfill any of their requirements and not just for the mighty dollar. It is always customers first.
Amazon has had years of development in building their cloud solution. A few other vendors are playing catch up but that's always the case when you have the key to success. The saying goes " if you built it, they will come". :)


Windows Azure
The one thing that I find is the GETs. I understand that the requirement is to help clients move to the cloud but being able to pull down data from the cloud without incurring too high of a cost would be nice. For example, maybe if there's predictive analytics that says "hey, you're pulling down (GET) a 10GB file, your estimated cost is X would be nice. Just overall predictive analytics is a cool thing to have, I understand that there is already that feature within the current solution but more would make Amazon a real powerhouse.