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 reliable."
"We appreciate that this solution is relatively easy to use, straightforward, and reliable."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"It's good for starting up because you only pay for what you use."
"The most valuable feature is the sharing capabilities."
"The users have nothing to worry about as the solution is well established."
"The initial setup is not difficult or overly complex. It's very straightforward and easy to implement."
"We can store incremental data and get high availability and fault tolerance."
"Using NetApp Files got us out of a really difficult situation quickly, effectively, and at a reasonable cost."
"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."
"It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something."
"Azure NetApp Files has been stable."
"The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"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."
"Its security and ease of use are most valuable."
"Since we have NetApp's internally, we use the SnapMirror predominantly for this process in the cloud which is beneficial."
"The pricing and licensing are pretty complex."
"Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored."
"Maybe they need to expand their range of physical locations."
"Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive."
"Amazon S3 could improve by providing some type of storage notification."
"It is expensive for storing."
"The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."
"The cost of the solution should be reduced."
"The deployment process is somewhat complex compared to other storage solutions."
"The pricing definitely needs to be improved."
"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."
"Reserved Instances for Azure NetApp Files would improve more use cases, making them more valuable in Azure as the cost would be reduced."
"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."
"This solution would be improved with more innovation."
"We would like to see more paired regions for the replication."
"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."
Amazon S3 is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 reviews while Azure NetApp Files is ranked 12th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 12 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.4. 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, Nasuni, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Microsoft Azure Block Storage. See our Amazon S3 vs. Azure NetApp Files report.
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