Amazon S3 - It's truly a Simple Storage Service
September 09, 2019

Amazon S3 - It's truly a Simple Storage Service

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Amazon S3 is used in our mobile applications inorder to have users upload images to the cloud and bring them back to their device. So when users upload an image, it gets sent to Amazon S3 and when an image is shown on the screen we are also pulling it from the same place lowering the load on our apps. It's used as storage for images only.
  • Easy to upload and download
  • Simple to pull into applications
  • Fast load times for images and files
  • Better user interface and user experience
  • Didn't affect our business too much in terms of ROI.
  • Cheap and inexpensive (free for the most part) so no negative or positive affects
Amazon S3 compared to all of these has the worst user interface. Drive and Dropbox as everyone knows is simpler and used for shared work files with a user-friendly interface. Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3 are both in the same boat for large application files and great for programmatic storage. Both inexpensive and the only reason to choose one over the other is if you are running your application on Amazon or Google to keep everything in one place.
I never had to use the customer support for Amazon S3 so this question is impossible to answer. From what I know from working with Amazon and AWS customer service in other areas is that they are knowledgable, fast, and follow up with everything in writing to ensure the problem is solved.

Do you think Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) again?

Yes

Amazon S3 is a perfect storage place for files and images for applications. Generally if you are less tech savy and just looking for simple cloud storage that doesn't need any automation or programming to send files to the cloud, it's best to go with a standard Dropbox or Google Drive. Also if your apps run off of Amazon Cloud or other services, it's nice to all have in one place.