"Strong object-store database to help you store data at your desired scale with high security options"
March 21, 2017
"Strong object-store database to help you store data at your desired scale with high security options"
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Wow, S3 is an Amazon object store product. However big the file size, whatever format the file is, we don't need to worry, just store the data and retrieve it whenever needed. Similar to other AWS Services, using AWS SDK, you can access S3 at a much faster and easier way, and don't really need to worry about writing REST API. I feel it handles our major business issue of storing data in one format and converting it to another, which is expensive and also time consuming, S3 is a wonderful solution for all these problems.
- We use S3 as an easy file sharing platform for official handovers within the company.
- Using the bucket policies, you can easily restrict the users accessing the files. Also, have server side encryption, so don't need to worry encrypting and decrypting back the data.
- The scale of S3 is really fascinating - It's huuuuge and highly scalable.
- I feel managing the data in the object store, using the AWS Console is quite complicated/difficult, but they have improved the S3 UI recently which is pretty fascinating.
- Uploading folders was quite complicated previously, haven't checked the new console though.
- Data conversion cost - Cost involved by huge servers to handle the data conversion is totally waived off
- Fast and scalable, need not think of an alternative solution if you want to expand your business
- Security policies and server side encryption features.
Out of all the other products, I personally feel, S3 is the best! You don't need to worry about the size of the data you store, maintenance is very easy, write a simple lifecycle rule to clear the unwanted and un important data after a certain period of time. No need to have additional software's to maintain the security and data conversion.