We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Azure NetApp Files 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 is very flexible and provides high storage."
"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."
"The initial setup is not difficult or overly complex. It's very straightforward and easy to implement."
"This solution is good at storing historical data and we were using it for other purposes."
"It's reliable and stable."
"The product is easy to use."
"Set up a performance and stress-based test suite to measure the endurance of a web application on Amazon AWS cloud system using S3 as the back-end storage infrastructure."
"It has saved a lot of time. Because in the older, conventional hardware system, they need to raise a ticket to go to storage engineering, then storage engineering would increased the size. Now, it's dynamic. You don't have to do anything. This improved the time by more than 50 percent."
"One aspect of Azure NetApp Files that I truly appreciate is its remarkable performance capabilities."
"The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its flexibility."
"Its security and ease of use are most valuable."
"This solution definitely makes us more efficient in being able to provide storage quickly to our customers in the Azure Cloud."
"The availability is good, meaning downtime or network issues rarely occur. The system also offers flexibility, allowing for increases in data volume, IOPS, and other capabilities without requiring downtime, which is a strong point. Based on the money spent, we can get performance improvements and high availability."
"Using NetApp Files got us out of a really difficult situation quickly, effectively, and at a reasonable cost."
"It is difficult to retrieve files in an emergency because the public cloud has data limits for immediate downloads."
"In the next release, I think that it would be good to have wizards that would update into specific applications, for example, a one-touch configuration in Pagemaker."
"The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."
"It is expensive for storing."
"They could always increase object storage ability."
"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."
"The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts."
"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."
"The main hurdle in promoting this solution is the price. Its price definitely requires an improvement. It is more expensive than other options, so customers go for a cheaper option."
"I would like to see multi-zone redundancy so that I don't have to worry about it. I just back up my data to that one SMB share and I know that it's replicated to a different region."
"This solution would be improved with more innovation."
"The deployment process is somewhat complex compared to other storage solutions."
"The main area for improvement is in the support ticket system. Since it's a SaaS platform, support tickets are managed by Microsoft or NetApp backend. This can sometimes lead to cross-functional challenges for organizations."
"Azure NetApp Files is expensive."
"The solution needs to improve it's ABS environment."
"We were looking for a clustered solution that has over-complicated things because we had it in AWS, which is Amazon. There was a solution for clustered NetApp. That meant there would be two NetApps that were not clustered because there was no solution for a cluster. We would like there to be an HA cluster solution."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while Azure NetApp Files is ranked 10th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 15 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Amazon S3 Glacier, whereas Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Nasuni and Microsoft Azure Block Storage. See our Amazon S3 vs. Azure NetApp Files report.
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