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Amazon S3 is reliable and good value
April 14, 2021

Amazon S3 is reliable and good value

James Hilton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

We use Amazon S3 across the whole organization to store business material, marketing material, web assets, and customer generated content like images and certificates. It is very good value, very reliable, and very fast. Access via the console and the API let's us upload and download data from many locations. The cost is so good that we don't concern ourselves with any kind of limitation to how much data we create.
  • File storage
  • Reliability
  • Speed
  • Value for money
  • Better explanation of the security features
  • Status alerts when put uploads are propagated to different edge locations so you know the customer is getting the latest version of the file.
  • A hard drive syncing application like Google Drive sync and one drive sync.
  • Almost unlimited storage
  • Being publicly accessible
  • Fast speed of download from anywhere in the world
  • Saving money by not having to buy servers with hard drive space
  • Fast international access to web assets means we can do business in foreign countries
  • Almost unlimited cheap storage means we can save time not having to restructure, delete and clean up old files regularly.
The main differences are that S3 files can be accessed publicly without having an account on the service so it is suitable for website assets, but the other services have desktop hard drive syncing applications so they are more suitable for sharing files to other staff in the company.

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 handles file storage exceptionally well and has the necessary features to be useful to anyone. S3 would not be ideal as a substitute for a computer hard drive but would be as a backup for that hard drive, or an extension of it, which you can delegate access to and where your internet speed is the only factor to consider.