Easiest blob storage out there
September 04, 2019
Easiest blob storage out there

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
We use Amazon S3 for hosting all of our backups, our Apache Spark output files (in lieu of HDFS), our Snowflake external stages, our static website, etc. Additionally, we migrate our logs there for historical purposes. As far as file storage goes, it is able to meet all of our needs with little-to-no downtime.
Pros
- S3 is very good with uptime
- S3 is elastic and infinitely scalable
- S3 is user-friendly
Cons
- S3 is not good if you need to copy files a lot; it can be slow
- S3 is not a replacement for a file system. It is blob storage, so things like updates and renames are impossible
- S3 requires globally unique bucket names, which can be a challenge
- S3 is extremely cheap, and we are able to host our entire data warehouse there.
- S3 rarely goes down, which is good for things like our static website.
- S3 can be slow if we need to copy files, but it is nothing terrible.
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