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."The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"The most valuable features are unlimited storage, scalability, and performance."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon S3 is its versioning feature. I also like that you can create pre-signed URLs on the solution."
"Amazon S3 has multiple types of data detection. You can store data on a monthly basis, yearly basis, and long term basis."
"We have cold storage here, and I think that's useful. When it comes to commercialization, it's cheaper to put data that you won't be using into the data storage. You only use a little bit of the data needed each day for your transition, so you pay less."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that I mostly used the tool's free tier version, so I like the fact that its cost is very low."
"The scalability of Amazon S3 is good."
"Amazon S3 is a storage bucket service with good stability."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."
"One thing would be automatic replication between buckets, some feature like that."
"No direct connector is available to connect Amazon S3 with other tools like MicroStrategy."
"The query size in Amazon S3 has room for improvement because it's limited. Querying on Amazon S3 is also expensive with Amazon Athena, so that's another area for improvement in the solution."
"Amazon S3 could improve the load balancers. They are very basic compared to other solutions in the industry, such as F5. It has to be able to be analyzed up to a certain level."
"I would like there to be more support without needing to use Transfer Family."
"It is expensive for storing."
"Could include some additional security features."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
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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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