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Amazon S3

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Cloud storage service for developers and IT teams

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Amazon S3 FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Amazon S3 offer?

Amazon S3 has the following pricing plans:
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Amazon S3 support?

Amazon S3 supports the following languages:
English

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Q. Does Amazon S3 offer an API?

No, Amazon S3 does not have an API available.

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Q. What other apps does Amazon S3 integrate with?

Amazon S3 integrates with the following applications:
Amazon VPC, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Amazon S3 product overview

What is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is a simple storage service that helps developers and IT teams store, backup, archive and retrieve data from anywhere across the web. It allows administrators to store data in buckets, append tags to objects, configure access controls for several clients, conduct high-volume data analysis, gain insights into storage usage and gauge trends based on activities.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Training options

Documentation

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Amazon S3 features

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Access Controls/Permissions
Data Migration
Data Storage Management
Encryption
File Transfer
Version Control

Amazon S3 users reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

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Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
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  • Likelihood to recommend8.76/10
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Pros
This software was very useful to store my files that can be accessable from anywhere in the world. It has brilliant security.
We love that its scalable and that the pricing is very friendly. The speeds are also very impressive.
I love using Amazon because it is very safe, practical and interesting in everything it promises.
Cons
If you click in the wrong button, your data might be exposed to everyone in the internet. There are several companies the suffered data breaches because of misconfigured s3 buckets.
The UI of the console is very bad. It has been updated recently but it still very rough.
There has been times that it is down causing issue with other software. Functionality can be frustrating at times.
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Greg G.

Operations Fellow

Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

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Storage & Static Websites for Cheap

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Justin S.

DevOps Engineer

Computer Software, 201-500 employees

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Your go-to resource for hosted object storage

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Vikram K.

Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Simple and flexible service for Storage Solution

Reviewed a year ago

S3, at least in terms of distributed storage, has genuinely transformed the world. Calling an API, pushing data to it, and then forgetting about the data center that holds it is an idea that none of us would have believed a few years ago, yet here we are, with massive quantities of businesses relying on S3 and prospering. Since the first introduction of S3, Amazon has constantly developed and released...

Pros

We don't worry about the help since we're on vacation because it's so accessible and repetitious. Use Amazon's SDKs to get basic functionality from a variety of structures, or create your own. There are a plethora of container techniques and security improvements that may be tailored to meet the demands of individual clients. Solid compatibility with the AWS biology system, notably in terms of access...

Cons

AWS environment is riddled with perplexing and incomprehensible configuration options, and S3 is no exception. Fortunately, it's widely used, to the point that you can always find arrangements on sites like StackOverflow. Because S3 defaults to security rather than open access, getting IAM consents to work correctly for Static Website facilitating takes some trial and error. Because AWS S3 is incompatible with system-level applications such as desktops, it has to find a solution that is simple to use. We are unable to store files larger than 5 GB.

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Chirag S.

Insurance, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Easy data archiving and data governance

Reviewed a year ago

We use S3 for several things such as archiving unused data from fileserver, storing backups, storing logs and more. I love the storage classes offered by S3. We can store data in standard or save costs by storing it in Glacier automatically using easy-to-configure lifecycle management rules. Some of our database backups get stored in S3 in a write-once-read-many model and can't be removed until a certain date has reached. We also enjoy creating rules to move unused data in S3 to cheap Glacier storage. We also have been replicating S3 data to different regions and accounts for additional data safety.

Pros

The most impactful feature of S3 is its immutability. We can put expiration date on stored data and nobody can delete that until the expiration date has passed. That allows backup data to remain secure.

Cons

Amazon doesn't make a desktop client like FileZilla but specifically for S3. While there are desktop clients available, a product from Amazon would be appreciated by non-technical users.

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Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Amazon S3 for Big data

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

Amazon S3 is the best file system in the space that deals with Big Data. Amazon S3 is able to host big files in an elastic way without worry about out of space. Amazon S3 assigns user roles to each individual bucket. The administrator can define read and write access policies for the entire bucket.

Cons

The first issue in Amazon S3 is that it does not provide email notification to the users in case that a bucket or a sub-directory has been changed by adding/deleting files. Also, integrating S3 with SSO is really challenging. Regardless the fact that Amazon S3 deals with Big Data, the Amazon S3 client API has many problems when a file size is greater than 5GB. A lot of workarounds should be done to split big files into parts and merge them successfully.

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Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Amazon S3 superrrrr

Reviewed 4 months ago

It's best for my business it saves data

Pros

This is very good for data securityNo one can access our data with out our permission

Cons

There is no any thing missing features found in Amazon S3

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Loiane G.

Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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S3 is still the leader in cloud-based distributed storage

Reviewed 3 years ago

S3 has, truly, changed the world at least when it comes to distributed storage. To call an API, push data to it, and then forget about maintaining the datacenter that houses with is a concept none of us would have believed in the recent past but here we are with monumental amounts of businesses depending on S3 and succeeding with it. Amazon has aggressively developed and released features steadily...

Pros

Objects are globally available but can still be geographically "homed" to a specific region. At-rest encryption can be configured for storage of all objects in an S3 bucket. Cost savings can be achieved by selecting the desired storage class that matches the type of data you're storing. Object life-cycles can be configured that will automatically take certain actions on an object when it reaches a certain age. Object versioning in S3 prevents a lot of anxiety around object corruption in multi-user applications. Object attributes can be set through headers that can facilitate intelligent hosting natively through S3 or through CloudFront CDN hosting. Full-featured static websites can be hosted using S3 and CloudFront.

Cons

Presumably due to the number of press pieces on corporations having data compromised from S3 buckets due to their own negligence, Amazon has invested a lot into preventing unwanted public access to S3 buckets. These extra layers can be a bit cumbersome to those of us who "got it" from the beginning and already know how to secure and S3 bucket.

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