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We love that its scalable and that the pricing is very friendly. The speeds are also very impressive.
Amazon S3 is a cost effective solution to save important documents.

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Hitesh V.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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Amazon S3 very useful and most import cloud storage

Reviewed 5 years ago

Our product and client product are using daily S3 service. And this will increase our revenue. I really thanks for Amazon for this wonderful service.

Pros

- Very useful and Most import storage - Too much Fast. - You can select the region as per your need. - scalable storege

Cons

- Cost is hight. But the server is too good so we can't say what dislike of this service.

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Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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For File serving, there's a lot of manual work that happens

Reviewed 5 years ago

Overall, it's better for large file serving than other alternatives we tried, which a very ui focused.

Pros

It's very cost effective storage that gives us a lot of control over access and permissions for files uploaded.

Cons

There are not great ways to make data public. These methods exist, but mostly require scripting or custom cloud formation apps.

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Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Great for file storage

Reviewed 5 years ago

This is the de facto industry standard for storing files. It's great and I'd recommend it to any team that has a website or something similar where they need to store/host files.

Pros

It's super easy to use. Cheap, reliable, and effective network storage. There is both a web GUI as well as client libraries for interacting with S3 via its REST API.

Cons

Some of the AWS CLI commands for interacting with S3 are a bit clunky. It would be nice if they streamlined the CLI to be a bit easier to use.

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Telecommunications, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Store, transfer and secure data with Amazon S3

Reviewed 2 years ago

The overall experience with S3 is great . I gave us lot of flexibility to store our huge volume of more securely and safe .

Pros

The data storage made really easy with Amazon's S3 service. The power of the cloud helps the data transfer and encryption easy .

Cons

There are cases where the S3 event triggers at times wont work . Also ,If the S3 get a desktop client by AWS , I feel it would be a great value add.

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Marco P.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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On of the best object storage service available in the cloud

Reviewed 4 years ago

The Region availability is all over the globe and you can use it to store any type of file like documents, images and generic files. The commands are available via the web portal, API and AWS CLI.

Pros

The cost is affordable. You can use a S3 Bucket to host static websites (eg: Angular, Vue.js, ReactJS) and the performance will be super fast.

Cons

The AWS UI is a little bit old and ugly. Set permissions can become complex and not easy to understand.

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Vikram K.

Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Simple and flexible service for Storage Solution

Reviewed 3 years 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...

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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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Filippo C.

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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A huge and cheap tool for storing several TB of data

Reviewed 10 months ago

Amazon S3 is the heart of our cloud architecture, providing all the buckets we need to read/write data, both from production and sand environment. It's highly integrated with other AWS services and it's quite cheap and easy to set up and manage.

Pros

It's a cheap solution for storing data. You can easily access AWS s3 both with data processing platforms (e.g. Spark) and client softwares (e.g. Cyberduck). You can also choose which type of storage fits better your need, depending of the access frequency (once a week, once a month, once a year...). AWS S3 supports all data format, while some of them (parquet and iceberg) are highly recommended for storing huge tables. You can also set lifecycle rules to delete old and unused files after a custom period.

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As a minor hiccup, there is some trouble in deleting corrupted files.

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Esra K.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Simple Storage Service for everyone

Reviewed 5 years ago

Before S3 we stored our sensitive files on hard drives where also our web application resides. One day it crashed and the files were gone. We started to use S3 and now our application does not depend on where is resides. We don't worry whether our storage is enough. I also use S3 to store my personal files. It is very cheap.

Pros

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service for the cloud. You can store any amount of data and access it anywhere in the world. You may stop depending on hard drives for your web applications and start using Amazon S3 to store your media files, log files etc. It provides 99.999999999% durability which means you may lose just one file in 10,000 years. S3 has versioning option...

Cons

S3 has buckets to store objects and these buckets have universal names. So for example, you probably won't be able to open a bucket named "photos". Configuring security is a bit tricky. You have to be careful which buckets will be public and which will be private.

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Civic & Social Organization, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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a simple but fairly expensive cloud based data storage solution for your enterprise

Reviewed 5 years ago

Overall experience is very good, and aws cli interface which nicely works with python and the linux terminal enables one to smoothen the overall aws s3 experiences. Because there are no restrictions on filesizes or file types, any company can host its data on aws s3 and be sure to have reliable service. The caveat with aws s3 is that one must understand that it is not a traditional database storage system, therefore will not behave like one. also ensure the admin of the software must be well versed with the various concepts surrounding aws s3 to enable the best bang for buck. I would recommend this without reservations.

Pros

Literally anything and every type of file can be saved to s3 buckets without any limitations. Images,csvs and what not can be easily and safely stored to s3 buckets. One can provision users to have specific permissions regarding bucket access. Literally 99.999% availability at most times.

Cons

it is only as good as the user/admin who knows how to make the most out of this software. there is a deep learning process involved without which one could be flying blind and exposing otherwise sensitive data to the public. the search functionality is practically absent. So there is no easy way of choosing or searching for files. the date columns on the UI seldom work

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Nidhi S.

Computer Games, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Simple Storage Service by Amazon Web Service

Reviewed 5 years ago

Amazon S3 pricing is designed so well that we can limit our monthly bill for S3 using the bill alerts. Different storage classes from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive can be set as per the objects needs. Big Data analytics help to manage and analyse the data lakes.

Pros

Amazon S3 provides the object storage with amazing web interface and a lot of features like scalability with great availability designed for 99.999999999 % on data durability. We can move our bucket's object to cost -effective storage class and the newly designed storage class 'S3 Intelligent -Tiering' move the objects based on access patterns. We can manage and monitor the objects with using tags and create the lifecycle of the objects according to tags. Multi-Factor Authentication can be enabled on delete operation which help in accidental delete operation. Versioning of objects can be enabled from bucket. The Cross-Region Replication helps in instant access.

Cons

Objects in the cloud are always vulnerable if firewall is not setup well. AWS snowball and snowmobile are either less availability or no-availability on geographical location.

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Esther R.

Information Services, self-employed

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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A Bit Daunting at First, But Powerful Enough for Wide-Ranging Uses

Reviewed 5 years ago

Amazon S3 is, of all of the major public/private storage services on the enterprise level, probably the easiest and most-reliable. For most basic uses, it excels at being as easy as managing files on your own web servers. Additonally, when combined with Amazon Route 53, it can be a rapid static web serving option. However, when you start getting into advanced security options or attempting to ensure that your files are only accessible to your own applications, you need to be very adept at studying Amazon's specific ACL formats, lest you lock yourself out or, even worse, expose your data to public download. Nonetheless, there's probably nothing better in this area, and the time that you spend learning these skills is well worth it for this service.

Pros

Flexible storage options, integrates well with other Amazon Web Services options, able to be used for static web hosting, fine-grained security settings

Cons

Advanced security settings are often hard to configure, pricing is not always clear and it is possible to quickly accrue large fees when testing

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Juan M.

E-Learning, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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For pros only

Reviewed 2 years ago

Good for using in software products, bad for simple day to day storage.

Pros

It is very inexpensive and reliable. It's an amazon product, you know it'll work as expected.

Cons

It is almost impossible to know how much you'll pay with AWS pricing system. Using it as an alternative to Google drive or other user-friendly storage solutions is highly discouraged, as it is overly complicated for non-ITs (almost as if they did that on purpose). You don't have support unless you pay for it.

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Jugraj S.

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best Storage Space with very low operational cost and ideal file storage for other AWS services

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

Amazon S3 as short for simple storage service. It is a secure object storage ideal for keeping files that are used be aws services like Athena, Elastic Map Reduce, etc. We can perform ETL Jobs written HIVE queries on the data stored in Amazon Athena supported formats on S3 directly. Which provide great performance on huge amount of data. Amazon EMR is another service that treat S3 as a type of local storage means cost and time of read-write operations in same region is as low as possible resulting in faster Job execution. S3 is another place where all other services store there logs. Having a negligible cost makes it ideal place to store a huge amount of files logs and other.

Cons

Amazon S3 is a object storage. We can update a file/object stored in it only way to update a file is to download it make the changes and upload it by deleting the old one in other words overwriting it. Which generate unnecessary read-write network bandwidth when we have to update small change in a large file. Another drawback is its maintaining versions of same file. we can do it but not as easy as other file storage systems. Also i find no way to integrating it with my local system like OneDrive is integrated into windows making hard to transfer file in and out of the system.

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Don I.

Graphic Design, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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S3 Buckets are an excellent option for powerful, scalable web resources

Reviewed 2 years ago

hosting websites and resources for smaller user pools is very cost effective

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Easily scalable and very powerful, can be very cost efficient

Cons

Unique lingo of the AWS ecosystem takes a while to learn

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Gurleen K.

Information Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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A Simple Storage Service for OBJECT STORAGE.

Reviewed 6 years ago

Amazon S3 is the one the best and cost effective storage solution in the market. Storage management and monitoring is also easy can monitor using the Amazon CloudWatch. The Different storage class like S3 Standard-IA, S3 One Zone-IA, S3 Glacier Glacier Deep Archive help to reduce the cost of the storage if used effectively.

Pros

Amazon S3 is an object storage service. It is highly scalable and data availability is also very good of all the different availability zones. Amazon S3 provide the 99.999999999 % (11 times 9) durability. It is the cost-effective storage as we can storage the objects in different Amazon S3 storage class. Best part in it is the old data move automatically move to the low cost storage class based on the access frequency. The cross-Region replication is helpful in to move the data into the local region to reduce the latency.

Cons

Amazon S3 should come up with the auto sync with the local drive option. Managing firewall for Amazon S3 is one important part and should be setup carefully AWS also help and provide suggestion on it but we should not follow it always. Buckets on Amazon S3 also helpful in running the low cost storage. We can not run a complete dynamic website on it.

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Used daily for 2+ years

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S3, like all of AWS, is a big sprawling powerful product

Reviewed 6 years ago
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S3 is absolutely an expert tool, and as such is incredibly powerful. We use S3 throughout our workflow in a bunch of different places, and it solves a number of problems for us wherever we need to put files online (whether temporarily or permanently). For certain types of hosting and usage, the pricing is so low you can essentially forget that it costs anything and throw whatever you want at it.

Cons

The level of complexity in S3 is quite high, so even a process like setting permissions on a bucket feels like passing through some sort of inscrutable bureaucracy to some degree. While many AWS users are likely domain experts, for the rest of us who lack the time (or inclination) to dedicate as much time to learning the system, S3 can have an extremely steep learning curve and some byzantine ways of doing things.

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Government Administration, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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A Easy and Simple Configurable Cloud Storage

Reviewed 5 years ago

We use AWS S3 for hosting the Statics websites of different departments as well as storing the software and documents.

Pros

First thing I like the most is S3 is very simple to configure and use. It is very highly secure, reliable, durability at a highly cost-effective price than other competitors. It is very easy to set up static websites and has faster load times. You can share your documents with just a single click.

Cons

Copying the files onto the server is little confusing as we need to install the command-line software (aws cli) to access the files on S3.

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Yurie Katri P.

Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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The heart of the cloud is no longer limited to discussion of storage

Reviewed 2 years ago

As storage, it is secure and economical, or it can handle processing that requires high performance, and detailed selection and configuration are possible. It is a basic and necessary function that forms the core of the cloud together with EC2. The price and performance change automatically according to the frequency of access, so content and variety can be chosen according to the user. S3's billing system is basically pay-as-you-go and control of the operation is straightforward. Considering the security, maintenance and start-up skills required, rather than owning an actual computer, it appears to be considerably cheaper.

Pros

Secure feel with ultra-high durability. Convenient data entry through integration with various services. Really easy and convenient. Flexibility to activate Lambda based on S3 events (but there are problems). Flexible security configuration by configuring S3 and IAM. Flexible pricing depends on the frequency of use (although it is cheap to start with). Recently, I was very happy to be able to use it as a data storage location for AWS Transfer for FTP. Since the server less FTP host environment was created, the operation is very simple.

Cons

The activation of the S3 event is not guaranteed. In exceptional cases, it may not trigger and you may have to write another Lambda for recovery. This is problematic.

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Brandon R H.

Wireless, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Low-cost and reliable object storage

Reviewed 2 years ago

Since it can temporarily store all kinds of data as a data lake, it was adopted as a storage destination for data generated by IoT devices that are difficult to predict and voice data for cloud services. With limited resources, such as local ones, it is difficult to estimate the initial investment and scale up, but using S3, there are no upfront costs and you only pay for the amount used.

Pros

The ultimate in cloud storage with the highest levels of availability and durability. Attractively, you can use storage at a low cost per TB. Data sent from IoT devices, logs from all AWS services, backups of AWS services, and so on. They can be stored in any format without worrying about running out of capacity resources, which gives us a great sense of reliability and security.

Cons

The fee schedule is confusing, making it challenging to estimate total costs. I want a more accurate cost simulation function. I also want a safety warning function because incorrect configuration increases safety risks.

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Parth P.

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Simple Storage Service: Amazon S3

Reviewed 3 years ago

Amazon S3 is appropriate for facilitating any kind of item. Energetically suggested assuming previously utilizing with some other AWS administration since combination becomes simpler. It is useful for any association that has a committed IT Department. Not suggested in case the organization doesn't have a group with experience in AWS administrations that screens it since it could wind up being a wreck or costly.

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Exceptionally accessible and repetitive; we don't stress over the assistance having vacation Basic utilization from various structures utilizing Amazon's SDKs, or roll your own An enormous number of container approaches and security changes in accordance with tailor use to client needs Solid reconciliation with the AWS biological system, particularly concerning access consents. It's astoundingly steady you can believe it'll remain on the web and accessible for anyplace on the planet. Its static site facilitating highlight is a secret jewel - it gives maybe the least expensive, generally steady, most high-performing static web facilitating accessible in PaaS.

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The entire AWS environment has a great deal of confounding and unintuitive arrangement choices, and S3 is no special case. Fortunately it's entirely comprehensively utilized, to the point that you can dependably observe arrangements on outside destinations like StackOverflow. Getting IAM consents perfectly for Static Website facilitating require somewhat experimentation since S3 defaults to security rather than open access.

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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 3 years 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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Sushank S.

Real Estate, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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A Simple and affordable storage in cloud

Reviewed 4 years ago

AWS S3 is Simple Storage Service by AWS which allows you to store data on the cloud at an affordable price. You can use s3 to store large data like static data, documents, images, videos, etc on cloud and access it anywhere. We can host static websites on it if you owning a business and want a simple solution to host a static website you can use this option.

Pros

In this growing world, data is the most important so storage of the huge data is very important, Amazon's Simple Storage Service (s3) is the best and affordable cloud storage service available in the market. We can store huge and any kind of data on S3 like Documents, Text Files, PDF, Audio, Video, etc. There are multiple storage options available with S3 like frequent data and infrequently used data can be stored on AWS Glacier low-cost storage. The data is secured on AWS s3 with multi-level access protocols eg public, private, etc

Cons

AWS S3 is not compatible with system-level like desktops, it should have something with which it can use used that will be very easy. We can not store more files more than 5 GB in size

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Loiane G.

Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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S3 is still the leader in cloud-based distributed storage

Reviewed 5 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.

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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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MANAS M.

Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Highly available distributed storage system with additional features and settings

Reviewed 4 years ago

I am having a great experience with Amazon S3, it really dose the things required in a really great way

Pros

This is a core part in most of our use cases , be it big-data computations , databases like redshift, aurora and snowflakes, be it for building a static or redirecting website and what not , it is i think the cheapest cloud distributed storage system and can be integrated with almost everything, integrate it with AWS Athena to analyse on file data, or run copy commands on snowflake or redshift databases...

Cons

the file naming we is a problem if we have a starting sub string as a file name, example if i had 2 files namely aaabbb and aaa , when i like to select the data of aaa, the data of aaabbb is also selected , because the s3 always treats the file name as filename* and one more thing is the static web support is good and easy to setup for http but for https its difficult need the help of aws cloud-front

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Daniel K.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Amazon S3 is a solid brand, but not for amateurs

Reviewed 3 years ago

I started using S3 as a off-site backup tool, and then I scaled up to use other services. It's serves it purpose rather well, but tends to be a little cumbersome, with many changes along the way and somehow a strict business model.

Pros

Amazon S3 defined the cloud in the begining. It's services were disruptive and much needed. I think that S3 it's a very solid option for backup and file retention.

Cons

However, it's not for the casual user. There are other, new and easy to use services aimed to the small business, wich offers a better way to deploy, are more cost-effective and have a more down-to-earth approach.