We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage Nearline 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."Amazon S3's best features are its reliability and capacity to expand."
"Amazon S3 is very flexible and provides high storage."
"The storage factor and data extraction are faster because we can use Redshift for extraction."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."
"S3 is well suited for both big and little data repositories of objects ranging from backup to archive to active video images and much more."
"The main aspect we like is that it's been easy to use."
"The product helps to define storage type based on the requirement."
"The capacity and space on offer are excellent."
"It can isolate files and stop them from corrupting other files."
"It provides the necessary support and flexibility to manage data storage effectively, especially during times of variable data flow."
"The most valuable feature of Nearline is the access. It's helpful to move data that is generated once a month, such as salary information, to Nearline."
"Nearline is highly stable."
"I find the flexibility in storing documents or data and the ease of retrieval valuable with this solution."
"Google is always introducing new features and tends to have a new release every month."
"The data structure and the types of data that are supported are very good."
"The console could be improved - it's not very user friendly for non-technical guys."
"The tool needs to improve its flexibility in support."
"I would also like S3 to have the ability to do dynamic websites without the need to do reconfigurations outside of S3. You should be able to switch on dynamic websites in S3, and then it works. I shouldn't need to go elsewhere within Amazon Web Services to get a dynamic website to work."
"The installation could be more straightforward for inexperienced users."
"We would like to see improvement in the ability to moves files within this solution. At present the process is not straightforward, and requires us to download files to our micro service service before then uploading into the solution. In addition, the transfer bit rate for the process is very slow."
"The solution could improve by having a simpler way to have the detail size of a file in the CLI to be read or understood easier. Today, it's a little raw in the way the details are presented. You have to make some scripts and some modifications to be able to see the information properly of the size of a given bucket or the size of a file."
"Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive."
"Amazon S3 could improve by having more frequent updates."
"The solution needs to offer better System Information and Event Management (SEIM). I'd like to discover how we could implement something like that within Google's cloud."
"The UI could be a little bit more effective."
"They need a better, more visual, user interface for folders and files."
"The suggestion for improvement primarily revolves around cost efficiency."
"Nearline security could be better. The solution could integrate better with SEIM tools."
"They should provide more options or flexibility in terms of pricing."
"The pricing is quite high."
"The interface for managing file storage in the buckets could be improved."
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Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while Google Cloud Storage Nearline is ranked 12th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 8 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Google Cloud Storage Nearline is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage Nearline writes "Provides APIs for everything and has good protection through encryption". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Microsoft Azure Object Storage, whereas Google Cloud Storage Nearline is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier and Wasabi. See our Amazon S3 vs. Google Cloud Storage Nearline report.
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