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It's simple. That's the point.
June 28, 2021

It's simple. That's the point.

Peter Hamilton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

We store user-generated content, backups, raw event data, logs, and other raw data in S3. This data is used by our product in serving content to our users, by our operations team to maintain site availability, by our analytics teams, and by our developers to debug our production systems.
  • Durability
  • Easy access
  • Interop with AWS products as well as third party vendors.
  • Finding files in large buckets.
  • Simplify permissions.
  • More transparent compression.
  • Disaster recovery
  • Support capability
  • Security audit
It's simple, it works, and when it doesn't AWS is pretty good at helping. There's just not that much that can go wrong.

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

It's easy and simple. The AWS CLI tool works well, the SDKs are solid. My only concern is the difficulty of finding specific files in a large bucket.
If you have data you may someday need but don't have immediate high volume access patterns, S3 is great.
Serving images and static content via s3 works very well and provides smoke performance (and can be coupled with CloudFront for distribution if necessary). Do not treat s3 like a general-purpose key-value store. Do not try to coordinate or create consensus using s3.