Amazon S3 Is Much More Than Just File Sharing
June 11, 2024

Amazon S3 Is Much More Than Just File Sharing

Michael Weisel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

We use Amazon S3 for a variety of forward facing and back-end processes across our organization. From sharing data internally to sharing buckets with partners and clients, S3 buckets are easy to setup, use, access, and manage. Sharing data outside of our organization safely, allowed us to remove older antiquated processes, applications, and services that we previously used ultimately saving us money. S3 is also the most inexpensive way to house large amounts of data across our organization. We continue to find new ways to utilize S3 for everything from simple to complex tasks.

Pros

  • Saves money
  • Easily organizes our data
  • Makes sharing and accessing easy
  • Used for a wide variety of tasks and processes
  • Easy access from command line as well as clients

Cons

  • Allow for larger files
  • Small tweaks to the UI for even easier use
  • Ability to use with Route 53 saved us money
  • EC2 backup and snapshots are an efficient and cost effective way of backing up
  • Data storage has saved us money
Amazon S3 has so much other functionality than it's competitors with so many more use cases. We use One Drive, Drop Box, Teams, Google Drive and other products for basic file sharing while working with partners and clients but that's kind of the extent of those products. S3 has so many additional use cases that have helped us not just stay organized but save 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

We would highly recommend Amazon S3 to anyone for everything from basic to complex needs. Amazon S3 has so many useful use cases and we continue to find ways to use it across our organization. We had a scenario where we needed to create a redirector for a domain and after researching and reading AWS documentation, we found a solution using an Amazon S3 bucket, and a text record.

Amazon S3 Feature Ratings

Continuous data protection
10
Replication
10
Operational reporting and analytics
10
Malware protection
8
Multi-location capabilities
10
Ransomware Recovery
8
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
8
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
10
Management dashboard
10
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

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