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."Cloud infrastructure is the most valuable feature."
"An important feature of the Amazon S3's system is that it offers encryption while the files are at rest. This is crucial in ensuring the security of the files being restored and addressing potential security risks. That's what I would emphasize."
"The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."
"I used Amazon AWS/S3 solution to prove my concept before deploying it on real hardware. It was a great experience and was really scalable."
"Easy to use, very intuitive, fast, and quite flexible."
"We appreciate that this solution is relatively easy to use, straightforward, and reliable."
"It's reliable and stable."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the global availability, resiliency, and ease of access control."
"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 data structure and the types of data that are supported are very good."
"Google is always introducing new features and tends to have a new release every month."
"I find the flexibility in storing documents or data and the ease of retrieval valuable with this solution."
"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."
"The capacity and space on offer are excellent."
"They should improve in the area of metadata curation."
"Amazon S3 could improve by being more secure."
"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."
"The tool needs to improve its flexibility in support."
"Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored."
"Technical support could have a faster response time."
"The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."
"If a certain resource is left unchecked, you can easily use a lot of it and drive up costs."
"They need a better, more visual, user interface for folders and files."
"The pricing is quite high."
"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."
"Nearline security could be better. The solution could integrate better with SEIM tools."
"The suggestion for improvement primarily revolves around cost efficiency."
"They should provide more options or flexibility in terms of pricing."
"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 66 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, Wasabi and Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). See our Amazon S3 vs. Google Cloud Storage Nearline report.
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