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."Cloud infrastructure is the most valuable feature."
"Amazon S3 is a stable solution."
"Easy to use, very intuitive, fast, and quite flexible."
"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."
"It's reliable and stable."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is storage, which provides a personal capacity."
"The multi-zone replication is great."
"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."
"Since we have NetApp's internally, we use the SnapMirror predominantly for this process in the cloud which is beneficial."
"Azure NetApp Files has been stable."
"The most valuable features of the solution is replication to another region and the performance. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable. The initial setup is straightforward."
"The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"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."
"You can change it non-disruptively. You can increase the size and decrease the size online, which is a huge benefit compared to Azure disks. It just works seamlessly. You don't need to stop the instances."
"Using NetApp Files got us out of a really difficult situation quickly, effectively, and at a reasonable cost."
"This solution definitely makes us more efficient in being able to provide storage quickly to our customers in the Azure Cloud."
"There are some scalability limitations."
"The search option must be enabled in the UI to filter and retrieve files."
"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."
"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."
"It is expensive for storing."
"The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts."
"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."
"The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."
"We would like to see more paired regions for the replication."
"The solution needs to improve it's ABS environment."
"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."
"We would like to have backup functionality built-in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data."
"Azure NetApp Files is expensive."
"We would like for the files which are coming in that we can version them. So, if a file is accidentally deleted, there should have a recycle bin option where we can go back, and at least once, clean it up."
"The deployment process is somewhat complex compared to other storage solutions."
"The pricing definitely needs to be improved."
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 Panzura. See our Amazon S3 vs. Azure NetApp Files report.
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