Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
June 23, 2021
Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
We use Amazon S3 as an additional way to safely backup our server and user data for our entire company and all of our clients. It is a cost effective, redundant service that gives us and our clients piece of mind that their data is secured. It has a storage location in Canada as well which lets us keep our data inside the country which means our user data stays put.
- Cost effective
- Easy setup
- Setup and forget
- Multiple data centres
- Free first year!
- Bills in local currency
- Can set a budget
- Global unique bucket names
- Costs vary per region
- Costs could balloon
- Cost effective backup storage for pennies per GB. We have been able to maintain customer backups as part of our base service fees. The costs are usually so low, we can offer an affordable backup to our customers without added cost to them making us more competitive.
- One small slip of the delete command by one of system administrators wiped out our entire web directory for one of our biggest clients. We had it restored from backup in minutes. Our client didn't even notice that there service had gone down until we sent an email notifying them of our slip up.
- This was a lesson learned early on in our business, but Amazon S3 made it a small hiccup not a catastrophic event that cost us money.
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
Evaluating Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Competitors
Yes - It replaced our cloud providers backup solution after it failed to restore our server after a large data loss that corrupted our OS filesystem. We were able to retrieve our data but it took quite a while to put it back together. The local service did not offer redundant backups either. At the time a fire or other mishap in the data center could potentially take out our cloud server and our data backup.
For a much cheaper price, Amazon was able to offer us backup of our critical data off site using a redundant system.
For a much cheaper price, Amazon was able to offer us backup of our critical data off site using a redundant system.
- Price
- Product Reputation
Using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Data backup
- Data Retrieval
- Budgeting