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Cloudinary vs Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Cloudinary allows users to securely upload images to their websites and mobile apps. Supports image storage and manipulation.

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.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

99

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

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No pricing info

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.7

85

5

4

3

2

1

61

20

4

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
88%
would recommend this app

4.7

1.1K

5

4

3

2

1

819

268

25

7

1

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
84%
would recommend this app

Pros

“I love how easy Cloudinary makes it to upload and display images and videos on a website with a few API calls — the optimization features alone blew my website’s load times in half, with lightning-fast delivery over a CDN.”
EG

Eleandro G.

Software Developer

“The system is useful to us to store large amounts of images that are uploaded and saved to Cloudinary via API, which is a HUGE benefit for the software service that employs me. If I could give 10 stars I would”
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Katy M.

CMO

“You can resize, crop, add effects, change formats, and apply other transformations via simple URL-based APIs.”
AK

Ahmed K.

Freelancer

Pros

“The best part about Amazon S3 is its reliability and how easily it scales. Whether you are uploading small text files or massive data backups it just works without any lag.”
SB

Sanskar B.

Student

“It provides a platform that, using extended functionality (APIs, SSH, web console, etc) provides a plethora of various mediums for interfacing with files (or, 'objects') in this respect.”
CQ

Connor Q.

IT Team Lead

“Integration with other AWS services like Lambda, CloudFront, and Athena is seamless, which makes building data pipelines and serverless architectures much easier.”
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Qin H.

Software engineer

Cons

“Nothing that I can think of other than having to pay for a small amount of storage space.”
LM

Lindsay M.

Owner

“Limited customer support”
RC

Rutherford C.

Graphics designer

“Cloudinary's documentation is loaded with content, but not well organized and can be difficult to find what you are looking for.”
NM

Nick M.

software engineer

Cons

“One of the main drawbacks of Amazon S3 is its pricing complexity, especially with variable costs for storage classes, requests, and data transfer that can be hard to predict.”
JR

James R.

Cloud Engineer

“A final note to mention that trying to specifically find an easy readable guide on best practices is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack - difficult and likely to be difficult to extrapolate for your use case (especially when integrating it with more AWS solutions).”
CQ

Connor Q.

IT Team Lead

“searching for and downloading files from s3 involves a lot of clicking on the UI, and files are hard to find if you have a lot of data.”
MP

Michal P.

Software Engineer

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  • Last review7 months ago
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  • Last reviewa month ago

Key features

  • Total features178
  • AI Copilot
  • AI Text-to-3D
  • AI Text-to-Image
  • AI Text-to-Speech
  • AI Text-to-Video
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Adaptive Learning
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Analytics
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Animations & Transitions
  • Asset Categorization
  • Asset Library
  • Asset Sharing
  • Audio
  • Audio Capture
  • Audio Mixing
  • Audio Moderation
  • Audio/video file upload
  • Authentication
  • Automatic Transcription
  • Autonomous Task Execution
  • Batch Processing
  • Brand Guidelines
  • Brand Overlay
  • Brand Portal
  • Bulk Uploading
  • CDN Agnostic
  • CDN Provider
  • CMS Integration
  • Clip Editing
  • Closed Captions
  • Collaboration
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Color Grading
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Content Import/Export
  • Content Library
  • Content Management
  • Content Organization
  • Content Sharing
  • Cross-system Integration
  • Custom AI Model
  • Custom Video Player
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable CTAs
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Migration
  • Data Replication
  • Data Storage Management
  • Decision Making
  • Distribution
  • Document Classification
  • Document Management
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Encoding and transcoding
  • Encryption
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Engagement tools
  • Expiration
  • File Conversion
  • File Management
  • File Preview
  • File Sharing
  • File Storage
  • File Transfer
  • File Transformation
  • File Types
  • Filtering
  • Full Text Search
  • GDPR Compliance
  • GIF Compression
  • Generative AI
  • HIPAA Compliance
  • Image Editing
  • Image Library
  • Image Protection
  • Image Recognition
  • Image/Video Moderation
  • Images
  • Import/Export
  • Inside the Video Search
  • Integration with Creative Software
  • Integration with Marketing Software
  • Integrations
  • Labeling
  • Lazy Loading
  • Live Simulcasting
  • Live Streaming
  • Media Library
  • Media Management
  • Metadata
  • Metadata Management
  • Mobile Screen Support
  • Monetization
  • Monitoring
  • Motion Tracking
  • Multi-Channel Distribution
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-step Planning
  • Multimedia Support
  • Multiple Format Support
  • Multiple Output Formats
  • Natural Language Interaction
  • Natural Language Processing
  • No-Code Integration
  • Operating System
  • Organizational Interface
  • Overlays and Watermarks
  • Photos/Images
  • Pre-built Templates
  • Presentation Streaming
  • Presentation Tools
  • Preview Functionality
  • Privacy Options
  • Private upload
  • Proactive Assistance
  • Profile channel
  • Project Management
  • Rapid Creation
  • Real Time Editing
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Rights Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SEO
  • SEO Management
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Security and privacy
  • Single Sign On
  • Social Media Integration
  • Social Promotion
  • Social Sharing
  • Speed Adjustment
  • Split/Merge
  • Subtitles and Closed Captions
  • Subtitles/Closed Captions
  • Supports HD Resolution
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Template Management
  • Text Animation
  • Text Editing
  • Text Moderation
  • Text Overlay
  • Third Party CDN
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time Mapping
  • Toxicity Detection
  • Transcription
  • User Management
  • User Violation Enforcement
  • User engagement
  • User, Role, and Access Management
  • Version Control
  • Versioning
  • Video
  • Video Archiving
  • Video Creation
  • Video Editing
  • Video Looping
  • Video Management
  • Video Monetization Tools
  • Video Stabilization
  • Video Streaming
  • Video Support
  • Video Tagging
  • Video player
  • Visual Analytics
  • Watermark
  • Watermarking
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features12
  • AI Copilot
  • AI Text-to-3D
  • AI Text-to-Image
  • AI Text-to-Speech
  • AI Text-to-Video
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Adaptive Learning
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Analytics
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Animations & Transitions
  • Asset Categorization
  • Asset Library
  • Asset Sharing
  • Audio
  • Audio Capture
  • Audio Mixing
  • Audio Moderation
  • Audio/video file upload
  • Authentication
  • Automatic Transcription
  • Autonomous Task Execution
  • Batch Processing
  • Brand Guidelines
  • Brand Overlay
  • Brand Portal
  • Bulk Uploading
  • CDN Agnostic
  • CDN Provider
  • CMS Integration
  • Clip Editing
  • Closed Captions
  • Collaboration
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Color Grading
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Content Import/Export
  • Content Library
  • Content Management
  • Content Organization
  • Content Sharing
  • Cross-system Integration
  • Custom AI Model
  • Custom Video Player
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable CTAs
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Migration
  • Data Replication
  • Data Storage Management
  • Decision Making
  • Distribution
  • Document Classification
  • Document Management
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Encoding and transcoding
  • Encryption
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Engagement tools
  • Expiration
  • File Conversion
  • File Management
  • File Preview
  • File Sharing
  • File Storage
  • File Transfer
  • File Transformation
  • File Types
  • Filtering
  • Full Text Search
  • GDPR Compliance
  • GIF Compression
  • Generative AI
  • HIPAA Compliance
  • Image Editing
  • Image Library
  • Image Protection
  • Image Recognition
  • Image/Video Moderation
  • Images
  • Import/Export
  • Inside the Video Search
  • Integration with Creative Software
  • Integration with Marketing Software
  • Integrations
  • Labeling
  • Lazy Loading
  • Live Simulcasting
  • Live Streaming
  • Media Library
  • Media Management
  • Metadata
  • Metadata Management
  • Mobile Screen Support
  • Monetization
  • Monitoring
  • Motion Tracking
  • Multi-Channel Distribution
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-step Planning
  • Multimedia Support
  • Multiple Format Support
  • Multiple Output Formats
  • Natural Language Interaction
  • Natural Language Processing
  • No-Code Integration
  • Operating System
  • Organizational Interface
  • Overlays and Watermarks
  • Photos/Images
  • Pre-built Templates
  • Presentation Streaming
  • Presentation Tools
  • Preview Functionality
  • Privacy Options
  • Private upload
  • Proactive Assistance
  • Profile channel
  • Project Management
  • Rapid Creation
  • Real Time Editing
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Rights Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SEO
  • SEO Management
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Security and privacy
  • Single Sign On
  • Social Media Integration
  • Social Promotion
  • Social Sharing
  • Speed Adjustment
  • Split/Merge
  • Subtitles and Closed Captions
  • Subtitles/Closed Captions
  • Supports HD Resolution
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Template Management
  • Text Animation
  • Text Editing
  • Text Moderation
  • Text Overlay
  • Third Party CDN
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time Mapping
  • Toxicity Detection
  • Transcription
  • User Management
  • User Violation Enforcement
  • User engagement
  • User, Role, and Access Management
  • Version Control
  • Versioning
  • Video
  • Video Archiving
  • Video Creation
  • Video Editing
  • Video Looping
  • Video Management
  • Video Monetization Tools
  • Video Stabilization
  • Video Streaming
  • Video Support
  • Video Tagging
  • Video player
  • Visual Analytics
  • Watermark
  • Watermarking
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrationsN/A
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
  • Total integrations2
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

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