Amazon S3 the goto storage spot
September 29, 2017
Amazon S3 the goto storage spot
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
We are currently using S3 in two different areas of the company, the first is to store backups for our WordPress websites, we have 10 different sites so each site has an automated process where every day they upload critical framework data to the different files I set up on S3. The second area where we use it is for archiving of BLOB's from our escrow software. The software saves documents which are used in the escrow in BLOB format. Using the automated process in the escrow software every sixty days the BLOB's are uploaded into the S3 folder setup for it.
- Once set up it is as simple as pointing to it and it works.
- It is fast for putting data on it and taking it off.
- It allows a mixture of data types which makes it ideal for how we use it; we don't have to worry that it would store a data type.
- If you're not a network type and don't understand terms like DNS or routing then it's going to be hard to get it setup correctly. They need to make this process a little more user-friendly for people that are not IT types.
- They should make security more friendly currently you have to have a very good understanding of what your setting so that the outside world does not see all of your data, a security preview would be great also to make sure the security setting is performing correctly.
- Billing is another area which could use some help in making it friendlier, you have to spend a lot of time doing deep dives on your bill to understand why cost just seems to have gone up.
- Regarding the websites, it has been a great ROI we have them all in one location which makes it easy to get too and fast in case of a failure and we need to quickly rebuild the site.
- Using it for our BLOB's on our escrow side of the house the ROI is based on being able to have it in a secure location which is easy to get too and fast when the application needs to access it to build a file.
- Dropbox for Business
Several issues with Dropbox where it was hard to set up in the application I was using and once it was set up it would work fine but then become disconnected for really no reason and the support from Dropbox was not that great. The one time that I had to bring back a backup it was slow and the connection dropped several times making it start over again. On the escrow side, I never could get it to link with our software.