Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): the bucket that stores anything
April 14, 2021

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): the bucket that stores anything

Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the quintessential large storage solution used by our organization alongside cloud applications. We use it for storing static files to serve through applications, storing application logs, storing large file, serving static websites through AWS CloudFront, storing machine learning models to be used by AWS Lambda functions, and many more use cases. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is used across applications for many client solutions we have developed on AWS.

Pros

  • Quick access for large file storage
  • Emulating a file system through S3FS
  • Versioning objects within buckets
  • Fine-grained access control
  • Serving as backend file storage for many types of applications running on AWS

Cons

  • Needs more convenience functions for managing files
  • Could provide more integrations with traditional relational databases
  • Could use even more granular access controls, for example on the object/prefix level
  • Large file storage
  • Database integration of large files
  • File system functionality
  • Static file storage and serving
  • Development of storage-based user applications has been accelerated by 5-6%
  • Query performance on large datasets increased by 15-20%
  • Storage cost for large files reduced by 30%
Google Cloud Storage provides many of the same features as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), but they differ quite a bit in the database integrations they provide. The main reason we had to use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is because our main infrastructure cloud provider was AWS and our applications were integrated to the specific DBs that pulled data from Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), such as AWS Redshift, which AWS provided.

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 (Simple Storage Service) is well suited for large, unstructured data storage and for querying that data using a range of integrations (e.g., AWS Redshift and AWS Athena). It works very well serving static files associated with applications as well (e.g., file uploads, images, etc.). However, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) does not serve well as a remote file system or snap-mounted storage for compute engines or VMs.

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