Amazon S3 - The Best in Storage
March 30, 2017

Amazon S3 - The Best in Storage

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

It is our central data store for resources. Aside from one outage, it has been incredibly beneficial to use. Its persistent storage is always available and delivers our assets quickly. I'm am such a big fan that I have adopted it for all my personal projects as well. Amazon Simple Storage Service is used across all departments both engineering and non-engineering.
  • Storage of assets
  • Uploading of images and other content from users
  • Backing builds and other essential components to engineering
  • There is some difficulty learning Amazon S3 which is common for all their products. There is a lot happening which takes time to dig in and get how they all fit together.
  • They had a big outage this year which brought down many large companies' website. This is a huge deal for something that so many people rely on.
  • It would be nice if it were more friendly for non-engineers.
  • It is a very cheap way to store and access anything on the cloud which is a huge positive ROI for us.
  • It has allowed us to backup our builds and database which has paid off in a huge positive way.
  • The outage caused negative ROI because we lost a significant amount of sales and we had to devote engineering resources to putting out this fire as opposed to building new things.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon DynamoDB, Redis
Amazon Simple Storage Service is simply the leader for long-term persistent storage for anything. It's very simple to use and access anything that you would like to save in the cloud. It allows us to save static assets, images and other content, software build artifacts, and database backups. We would be pretty lost without something that powerful to use.