The best cloud option for object storage!
June 17, 2024

The best cloud option for object storage!

Fabricio Zubelli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

We leverage Amazon S3 capabilities to a multitude of scenarios. We store audio recording files for our application, we use it as a storage backend for our vault application and we also use it to store analytics data for Redshift to consume from. Amazon S3 is always something we look at when solving business problems that requires storing data because of its ease of use and scalability with affordable price. it is also easy to share data externally and to integrate with applications. It provides reliable storage scalability for analytics and business data as well.

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Cold storage and data management
  • Integrations
  • Security and compliance for you stored data
  • Cost effective data storage

Cons

  • Versioning management is hard and not straightforward
  • Folder renaming
  • Cost estimation for large scale organizations can get hard
  • Reporting and monitoring of granular data is not available
  • Data transfer cost could be a nightmare
  • Amazon S3 is around 80% cheaper than storing in a DB
  • Implementation time is approximately 90% faster than a DB
  • It enabled a lot of out company's database and application backups with replication on top of it
  • Made it easier to develop applications that need a reliable scalable cheap storage for objects
Amazon S3 integrates way better with other AWS services and tools, making it the quick choice for your AWS based application. Furthermore, the pricing for Amazon S3 is very competitive and it has all the security and access capabilities to enable your application.
Google solution is more tailored for GCP applications and the pricing model is more complex than AWS. Cloudflare has some interesting new features but they can get expensive when scaling. Lack a few features of storage management that Amazon S3 has.
DigitalOcean Spaces is limited in availability zones which is an enterprise disaster recovery risk. It is also basic lacking a lot of advanced features that Amazon S3 provides (management, granular access control, etc.)

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

If you need to store files that will be accessed or shared to multiple parties Amazon S3 is a viable solution. If you need to grain control access to those files, Amazon S3 has a lot of capabilities as well. If your tool can use Amazon S3 as backend, it is also a good choice due to the price. You can also use it as a web hosting solution for small websites. It is great for backing up and archiving application and database data.
I would not recommend it to be user on high-performance computing where you need really really slow latency. If you need to transit large chunks of data I would be careful as well to avoid the high costs of AWS data transfers.

Amazon S3 Feature Ratings

Enterprise Backup
8.5
Continuous data protection
8
Replication
8
Operational reporting and analytics
8
Multi-location capabilities
10
Data Center Backup
9.2
Universal recovery
8
Instant recovery
8
Business application protection
8
Multiple backup destinations
10
Backup to the cloud
10
Flexible deployment
10
Management dashboard
8
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

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