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."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."
"Easy to use, very intuitive, fast, and quite flexible."
"The storage factor and data extraction are faster because we can use Redshift for extraction."
"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 scalability of Amazon S3 is good."
"The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."
"The integration with Cloudfront helps in fetching the static phase and default phases in case our actual service is down."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see the API for beginners improved because it is hard to understand."
"The UI should be more user-friendly."
"The installation could be more straightforward for inexperienced users."
"The solution's data transfer speed could be improved."
"I didn't find the user interface very friendly."
"They could always increase object storage ability."
"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."
"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."
"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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