AWS S3 Service Review
June 15, 2024

AWS S3 Service Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

We use Amazon S3 to store logs from DataFirehose streams and for data archival, addressing the need for scalable, durable storage solutions. S3's robust architecture ensures our logs are securely stored and easily retrievable for analysis. Additionally, we utilize S3 for static content rendering, which enhances website performance by delivering content quickly and reliably. This service supports our business by providing cost-effective storage, efficient data management, and seamless integration with other AWS services, ensuring data integrity and accessibility for our operational needs.

Pros

  • Amazon S3 offers virtually unlimited storage capacity for our requirement, accommodating growing data needs without requiring hardware upgrades. Our data is redundantly stored across multiple facilities and devices, minimizing the risk of data loss.
  • S3 offers multiple storage levels and pricing is good as per the usage and based of content retrival frequency S3 offers tiers like glacier, Standard, Intelligent-Tiering.
  • S3’s integration with Amazon CloudFront provides low-latency, high-speed content delivery across our multiple locations. This is particularly beneficial for serving static assets such as images, videos, and web content, ensuring fast and reliable access for users globally.

Cons

  • S3 related Security configuration best practices should be available at one place.
  • All the logs storage is easy but folder needs improvement
  • At-times the misconfigs are flagged.
  • Transitioning from on-premises storage to Amazon S3 had lead to significant cost savings.
  • We were experiencing rapid data growth that was easily scaling up and their storage needed for archival without upfront investments hence S3 was perfect.
  • Configuring and maintaining proper access controls and policies in S3 can be complex and error-prone.
Pricing and Cost Structure are best:Amazon S3:Offers multiple storage classes: Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-IA (Infrequent Access), One Zone-IA, Glacier, and Glacier Deep Archive while other were costly and figuring out the monthly costs were difficult. The community for AWS is better for help and assistance in any roadblocks when compared to other service providers.


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

AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon CloudFront
we use S3 to store backups of their critical data, including databases, application data, and system images. In other usecase of our, storing large datasets for analysis using AWS services like AWS Glue.Hosting media files (videos, images, etc.) that need to be distributed to users around the world.Using S3 as part of a disaster recovery plan to store critical data and system backups.

Amazon S3 Feature Ratings

Enterprise Backup
9.4
Continuous data protection
9
Replication
10
Operational reporting and analytics
10
Malware protection
8
Multi-location capabilities
10
Ransomware Recovery
Not Rated
Data Center Backup
9.6
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
8
Recovery verification
9
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
8
Management dashboard
9
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

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