We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure File Storage based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users of Amazon S3 mention that the solution is missing the mapping to Windows feature like Azure File Storage has. It also received mixed reviews on service and support. For these reasons, Azure File Storage is the more valued solution.
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are its storage capabilities, security, and integration."
"Technical support is excellent."
"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."
"It's good for starting up because you only pay for what you use."
"We've had no issues with stability."
"The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the accuracy and the life cycle policies, which help when moving from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier."
"We can easily connect to the AWS resources."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure File Storage is that all the features are available in one place."
"Implementations with other products are easy."
"The biggest advantage of Azure File Storage vis-à-vis other public cloud storage providers, and why we recommend Azure first and foremost, is that many of our customers have partnerships with Microsoft and so they have access to better cloud economics. Compared to AWS, we have found that (from a customer perspective) Azure is much more competitive."
"My client had zero data loss while using the solution for backups and file security."
"The security features and the ease of integration are good."
"The immutable storage features are valuable."
"We have not explored the desktop performance analysis of the file storage, but the user interface, API, and the response that we receive over the file storage are very good. We have a lot of customers that connect to the client-side, click the images, and upload them. The beauty of the solution is that we can mount the file storage into a critical server as well as an external drive. The speed that we receive with the images is pretty good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The security model can be improved as it is a bit confusing."
"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."
"The solution requires you to buy and use Amazon services."
"The pricing and licensing are pretty complex."
"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."
"A feature that should be included is to find and provide a HIPPA compliant solution for the Presigned URL."
"The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts."
"It could maybe use more integration."
"Sometimes it takes very long to refresh the information."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"The pricing could be improved. They need to make the costs more transparent so users know what they will be charged and why ahead of time."
"Firewall rules should be introduced to secure the access date from any virus attacks. Anti-virus should be introduced in the work filtering and document filtering."
"Maybe Microsoft can make it more economical because it is a costly affair."
"It's a bit complex to set up. Other than that, there is nothing to improve."
"The initial setup is complex. Unless you have done it a few times it, it is going to be hard."
"Importing and exporting data needs to have a bit more documentation."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while Microsoft Azure File Storage is ranked 3rd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 44 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure File Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure File Storage writes "Various storage options available, high availability, and quick deployment". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier, Google Cloud Storage and Zadara, whereas Microsoft Azure File Storage is most compared with Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Azure NetApp Files, Wasabi, Amazon S3 Glacier and Google Cloud Storage. See our Amazon S3 vs. Microsoft Azure File Storage report.
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