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Amazon S3 - A Fantastic Solution to Modern Software Demands
March 22, 2017

Amazon S3 - A Fantastic Solution to Modern Software Demands

Ivan Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

We use amazon s3 to persist all of our internal and client data in the cloud. It is a fantastic choice when your infrastructure is also hosted within the AWS ecosystem, as all of their technologies interoperate very nicely with the S3 storage service. It sort of eliminates the need for traditional dev ops.
  • Storing any types of data
  • Interacting with other services and technologies in the AWS ecosystem
  • Horizontal scalability of data storage
  • Better interoperability with tools outside of the AWS toolkit
  • The command line client is very verbose and clunky to use
  • Better client tools for interacting with S3
  • Makes communication across development teams more uniform
  • The cost savings of reducing dev ops budget and using a managed service like S3 are high
  • S3 effectively auto scales to the size you need it to be and is priced accordingly
S3 is sort of the de-facto standard for cloud-based storage right now, so it's hard to have a great basis of comparison. Google's drive and cloud offerings are fairly similar in functionality, although I would say the AWS management console is a lot easier to interact with than the Google equivalent.
Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Qubole
S3 is really well suited for data storage supporting most modern software solutions. Modern technology demands far more scalability than has been available in the past, and the distributed nature of the AWS ecosystem supports these demands quite nicely. On the flipside, it is often easier to "hit the ground running" with more of an in-house, single-server approach to software applications.