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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Overview

What is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used 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, secure, fast, inexpensive 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.

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet. A simple web services interface used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.


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Recent Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Reviews

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Igor Z.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best Object Storage on the market"
Mostly I like the simplicity of working with S3. Simple interface, straightforward APIs. Also, almost 100% availability. In my 6 years of working w...
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Taryn F.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"S3 is extremely affordable, without compromising on security and scalability features"
S3 is extremely affordable, without compromising on security and scalability features.
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Siddharth Ranjan S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Amazon S3: Security, Scalability and Cost-Effectiveness"
The most important feature which makes it standout in the market is, integration with other AWS services. And it enhances its functionality, making...
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Nayan Sagar N.
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Data Engineer Intern
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

I like the concept of S3 itself, store the files in S3 and this files can be accessed from anywhere. I like the security of S3. And it is scalable, highly available. As the data is stored in object storage, it can be integrated with other sources. And S3 is easy to use and it is easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

Amazon S3 cost is on the expence side, the pricing cannot be predicted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it for storing my files and retriving it for analytics and further processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Taryn F.
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What do you like best about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

S3 is extremely affordable, without compromising on security and scalability features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

One of the disadvantages of S3 is the geographical limitations of the location of your data. The size limitation is also a little low for modern day cloud storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) solving and how is that benefiting you?

S3 solves the need for quick, easy and affordable cloud storage. Simple migration, easy to set up rules and extremely secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

AWS is first of all user friendly and easily implementable compared to other cloud architecture. It has number of service with various application based configuration. AWS services has multiple advantages wrt usage of service i.e. S3 bucket has versioning, easily accessible through all the other applications, fast. Each services has numerous benefits as per individual or integrated with other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Some of the services like athena are costly for a smaller purpose applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Storage is easily accessible. Using instances to prepare gateways for different functions. I am using Redshift as dwh which lets me manipulate the access over it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The seamless switching between the services and the ease of use.

My team uses the services very often and even though, every implementation has a learning curve , the ease of implementation is great with the AWS services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The latency for some services especially EC2 and the database services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Migrating the legacy systems into cloud and reduce costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anurag P.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The invention of cloud has changed the entire business world, the businesses are sleamless and all the workloads are shifted to cloud by most of the companies its all because of his 99% of up-time. AWS Cloud is one of the biggest bull in cloud sector. Where we can easily use and implement the cloud as the Interface of the cloud is very user-friendly and customer support is excellant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Only pricing is high but if you think about service you will not think about pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps to scale the server as per the traffic entries also it is more flexible and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

I like how we can use it for storing both structured and unstructured data. We can store anything from csv, JSON to audio files. It's also makes it easier using our data to work with bedrock and other AI services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

I find it difficult managing access controls for the data istored in s3 buckets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps you store any kind of your data in the cloud. It takes care of both scalability and availability. It also helps you in feeding your data to the models and other AI services with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

It is very easy to integrate with the server. We can easily use it. Whenever we require the customer support we get it in the short instance of time. They care about it very well. I use it frequently in nowadays to check the CPU,memory and many more things in single click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

I don't think there is any thing bad with the AWS cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves the issue of maintainance and it is quite cost effective for us. Whenever we require it we get it us and use it. We have to pay as we use that. So,this is quite cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rubén D.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Ease of use and lots of documentation to get started without experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Sometimes it is a little slow when creating spaces and doing deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

being able to have an entire application in one place and only pay for what the institution consumes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meghna A.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Best cloud service provider as it is 100% on-time and less latency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

UI is a part which can be improved, if UI is good then it is great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Webapp deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

Easy Integration which is flexible enough to changes, cost effectiveness of the toolings built around with S3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

IAM strangles a bit around easy integration, request based pricing could be volume based in data moved around in operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Site wide content solutions, static content m, user facing content, storing application configuration, states Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.