We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Block Storage 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's best features are its reliability and capacity to expand."
"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 solution is easy to use for anyone with minimal technical knowledge."
"We have cold storage here, and I think that's useful. When it comes to commercialization, it's cheaper to put data that you won't be using into the data storage. You only use a little bit of the data needed each day for your transition, so you pay less."
"The most valuable feature is the sharing capabilities."
"The versioning of this solution for accidental deletion has been most valuable."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"The integration with Cloudfront helps in fetching the static phase and default phases in case our actual service is down."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease with which you connect and use it."
"The initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"The most important reason we use Azure Block Storage is the ability to store large files. When we were building the solution, we knew we needed to store images and video files that are 100 MBs or more. The second thing is speed when dealing with such large file sizes."
"You can easily access your data whenever you need it."
"In terms of latency, bandwidth, and productivity, Azure Block Storage is better than other solutions."
"Storing and then retrieving data are the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage."
"Its integration is very easy."
"The solution could improve by having a simpler way to have the detail size of a file in the CLI to be read or understood easier. Today, it's a little raw in the way the details are presented. You have to make some scripts and some modifications to be able to see the information properly of the size of a given bucket or the size of a file."
"We have cold storage here, and I think that's useful. When it comes to commercialization, it's cheaper to put data that you won't be using into the data storage. You only use a little bit of the data needed each day for your transition, so you pay less."
"The free web and DB hosting could be improved. It could be faster when you download huge files from the S3 bucket to your local system. If the S3 bucket availability and performance could be improved, we would consider hosting our database over there."
"It could maybe use more integration."
"Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored."
"The console could be improved - it's not very user friendly for non-technical guys."
"The query size in Amazon S3 has room for improvement because it's limited. Querying on Amazon S3 is also expensive with Amazon Athena, so that's another area for improvement in the solution."
"Amazon S3 could improve some of the features, such as indexing, or we should have more information about all the data stored in a single place. This way we can see what data resides where instead of going in different buckets, file locations manually, or searching. An index would be nice, allowing us to directly go to a location to use the date."
"It is also costly and not cheap compared to Internet-based networks."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement. Microsoft Azure Block Storage is priced higher than alternative solutions."
"We need to do versioning each and every time, that is, check-in and check-out. If a person forgets to do that, then there could be an issue in the replacement of that particular object in the storage. It will be great if it can be automatically managed."
"The support response time could be quicker."
"In terms of improvement, it could use better integration with non-propriety tools. Azure pushes you down a data factory road for integrations but data factory isn't always a scalable, viable solution, particularly when using large numbers ofconnections to IoT solutions."
"The performance of Microsoft Azure Block Storage needs improvement because it's laggy. Microsoft Azure Block Storage also has a lot of limitations on file sizes. The rendering and loading times also need improvement."
"The performance could be improved, but all the services in the cloud are improved every week."
"It should be easier to deploy."
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Amazon S3 is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "Straightforward to set up and reliable with good features on offer". 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 Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Wasabi and Azure NetApp Files. See our Amazon S3 vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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