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Amazon S3 Review
September 02, 2019

Amazon S3 Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Storage of audio files for distribution using Cloudfront content delivery network.
Restoration of databases from file to RDS.
  • It's good for working with files across the entire AWS ecosystem.
  • It's good as a fast to set up source of large amounts of storage as needed for projects.
  • It's good as a storage location for third party devices and services that need a place to store data, backups, etc.
  • It is only object based storage. You can upload and download files. It is not like having a randomly accessible hard drive that you can host a live database on. There may be uses where S3 acting more like a randomly accessible hard drive would be useful.
  • Integration between other areas of the AWS ecosystem can be a bit difficult to set up and use. For example, file-based SQL server restores into RDS instances.
  • Some of the more complex functions need to be done by remote command line.
  • Speed and ease of setup makes projects progress quickly.
  • Integration with other AWS services makes things much more hassle free and smooth-running when running an entire infrastructure in AWS.
  • AWS tech support is great, so using S3 (especially with other AWS services) is a safe way to do things. Problems are quickly and correctly resolved.
It has a lot of functionality. However, some of it is hidden within the remote command line interface. Setting up more advanced use cases can require a decent amount of research and possible a call to tech support. Overall it is solid.
Never had anything but good experiences with AWS support. It's especially useful when running your whole infrastructure on AWS services.
S3 is more of a niche product for hosting data within an IT infrastructure. The others are more end-user focused.
1. If you are building an infrastructure within AWS, S3 is a good fit for object type storage and other integrations.
2. If you require a content delivery network like AWS Cloudfront, S3 will be where your data is actually stored.
3. If you have third party products that are designed to work with S3 cloud storage.