Why I am so impressed with Amazon Web Services!
March 29, 2017
Why I am so impressed with Amazon Web Services!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
We are using Amazon S3 for multiple clients and our own purposes.
S3 is a simple to use Cloud based storage product that is a secure, scale-able low cost approach for any organization that needs to have off site storage for the purposes of backup or retention, document storage and archiving. Good versioning control, secure access and an almost infinite ability to increase your storage effortlessly as your organization's needs grow. Amazon has a very easy to use interface and for users that are not very technically minded there are third party tools out there like Filezilla and S3 Fox that enable the upload and download of files in easy to use folders that anyone can feel comfortable with. Amazon S3 is also a very robust and safe storage of your files and documents as it has 99.999999999 %. Availability and your data is spread over multiple zones so that there is an as close to zero chance of data loss as is possible. I would thoroughly and unequivocally recommend Amazon S3 storage to businesses in any environment.
S3 is a simple to use Cloud based storage product that is a secure, scale-able low cost approach for any organization that needs to have off site storage for the purposes of backup or retention, document storage and archiving. Good versioning control, secure access and an almost infinite ability to increase your storage effortlessly as your organization's needs grow. Amazon has a very easy to use interface and for users that are not very technically minded there are third party tools out there like Filezilla and S3 Fox that enable the upload and download of files in easy to use folders that anyone can feel comfortable with. Amazon S3 is also a very robust and safe storage of your files and documents as it has 99.999999999 %. Availability and your data is spread over multiple zones so that there is an as close to zero chance of data loss as is possible. I would thoroughly and unequivocally recommend Amazon S3 storage to businesses in any environment.
- Easy creation of Buckets that mimic what most people are familiar with like a folder on your desktop computer.
- Easy to use interface to upload, download or delete files.
- Secure and easy to control who has access to your information.
- Scale-able without committing to a fixed price over time.
- I think file dates on upload should reflect the date that the file was created on the original source, not the date that you uploaded it, or at least have that option.
- Drag and drop from your desktop would be a useful ability.
- Would be nice to be able to import directly from other clouds, like One Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox.
- Positive - no need to plan ahead with ever increasing storage space.
- Positive - off site data backup that can be used in a DR situation from any location
- Positive - Granting temporary access to other people is easy.
[Amazon s3 has a] Simpler interface.