Great storage engine for all your AWS needs
June 17, 2024

Great storage engine for all your AWS needs

Nir Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

We are using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) as our main storage for static files, saved reports, and short and long-term backups. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has many different storage types that allow us to optimize our data storage spend quite well, but unfortunately not to the fullest. With the built in web access, and good integration with CloudFront we are also able to serve media to the world with a simple and low-cost solution. Having file-level access control is also a major plus that we utilize often.

Pros

  • Long term cost effective storage
  • Bucket, folder and file level access control
  • Publish files and folders to the web
  • Integrate with many other AWS services

Cons

  • More storage types would allow for better cost scenarios
  • An in-place compression and decompression functionality would be helpful
  • A trusted storage for our production data
  • Keeps things simple
  • Well understood and accepted in the community
We opted for Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) solution as most of our workloads run on AWS and this saves as bandwidth costs. Otherwise the solutions are similar in capabilities for our needs.

Do you think Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) again?

Yes

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is well suited for storing data for varying time periods, while optimizing access control and cost. It has an extensive API and SDK to allow software to access files on Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), with the correct permissions schema. It is not, however, enough for serving large websites on its own, and integration with CloudFront is recommended. It is not a filesystem, so software needs to know how to write to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) in order to utilize it.

Amazon S3 Feature Ratings

Enterprise Backup
9.3
Continuous data protection
9
Replication
9
Operational reporting and analytics
9
Malware protection
Not Rated
Multi-location capabilities
10
Ransomware Recovery
Not Rated
Data Center Backup
9.0
Universal recovery
8
Instant recovery
8
Recovery verification
8
Business application protection
8
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
Not Rated
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
8
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
10
Management dashboard
9
Platform support
9
Retention options
10
Encryption
9

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