We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."My company uses Amazon S3 by default for every single project. I like that you can use it for storing different file formats. Amazon S3 is also the easiest to use compared to other solutions."
"Cloud infrastructure is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the performance and hibernation data options. Additionally, there is a feature that provides faster website access that is helpful."
"The most valuable features are VNet, virtual machines, and Elastic Kubernetes Service."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the sharing capabilities."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"The most valuable features are unlimited storage, scalability, and performance."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The search option must be enabled in the UI to filter and retrieve files."
"Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."
"Amazon S3 could improve by providing some type of storage notification."
"I would like to see the API for beginners improved because it is hard to understand."
"The tool needs to improve its flexibility in support."
"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."
"The free web and DB hosting could be improved. It could be faster when you download huge files from the S3 bucket to your local system. If the S3 bucket availability and performance could be improved, we would consider hosting our database over there."
"If a certain resource is left unchecked, you can easily use a lot of it and drive up costs."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 21st in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Google Cloud Storage, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS. See our Amazon S3 vs. IBM SoftLayer report.
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