Amazon S3 Reviews

Name: Amazon S3
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (65 reviews)

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Amazon Simple Storage Service is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

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Amazon S3 is the #2 ranked solution in top Public Cloud Storage Services. PeerSpot users give Amazon S3 an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Amazon S3 is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure File Storage: Amazon S3 vs Microsoft Azure File Storage. Amazon S3 is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 67% of all views.

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Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

Feb 27, 2023

We use S3 buckets to store logs from the application side. The logs stay on the server for seven days. After that, we transfer them to the S3 bucket, depending on the application, and the logs help us correctly troubleshoot problems. We can also host web apps in the historical bug bucket. If you…

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Shyam Pavan Kondamadugula

Sr full stack java developer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Feb 17, 2023

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. In S3, we do the syncing process where everything is automated as per the business logic. The data is sent to S3 after the syncing process. S3 will evaluate the data and the format and store it for backup purposes. Whenever we miss a payment, we can just recover the history from the storage bucket. So it helps us manage the features, cost, and regulatory aspects.

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Dwight Tuhusula

Tech Architecture Manager at Accenture

Oct 24, 2023

Amazon S3 is used for storage service. It's designed for 99.9% durability; hence, our data is highly protected against failures The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is the data transfer acceleration because it can enable fast, easy, and secure data transfer. The solution's cost should be…

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Amazon S3 market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Amazon S3 in the Public Cloud Storage Services category stands at 12.0%, marking a decrease of 19.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Jan 25, 2024

Valuable Features

"Amazon S3 is very flexible and provides high storage."
"The product helps to define storage type based on the requirement."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is the data transfer acceleration because it can enable fast, easy, and secure data transfer."

Room for Improvement

"No direct connector is available to connect Amazon S3 with other tools like MicroStrategy."
"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."
"The solution's cost should be improved."

Pricing

"The solution is cost-effective because it is based on a pay-as-you-go model, where I can purchase and use it according to my needs."
"The tool's licensing costs are monthly and cheap."
"While storing data in Amazon S3 is relatively inexpensive, there are costs associated with retrieving or transferring data across continents."

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Educational Organization

67%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

Retailer

University

Healthcare Company

Construction Company

Insurance Company

Media Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Non Profit

Wholesaler/Distributor

Hospitality Company

Transportation Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

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Learn more about Amazon S3

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

Amazon S3 was previously known as S3, Simple Storage Service.