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."The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is the data transfer acceleration because it can enable fast, easy, and secure data transfer."
"The product is easy to use."
"It's very well secured. We have S3 policies that allow you to write custom policies."
"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."
"We can store incremental data and get high availability and fault tolerance."
"Enables content sharing by multiple users."
"Amazon S3 is easily accessible, fast and effective. Its performance is good."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is its flexibility as a solution to suit many different use cases."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"We would like some improvement in the cost of storage via this solution, as it currently has a very high price point."
"The security model can be improved as it is a bit confusing."
"When we need to find the queries there is no user interface, it is the only textual format that is bulky. If we need some data we will use Athena for queries and we will get results. When comparing this solution to others, such as DataDog, they provide a wonderful UI, and user-friendly dashboards, and many other features that this solution is lacking."
"A feature that should be included is to find and provide a HIPPA compliant solution for the Presigned URL."
"It is expensive for storing."
"Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."
"The cost of the solution should be reduced."
"You need to fully understand the solution's best practices to get the most out of its security features."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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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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