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About Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a cloud-based object storage that allows users to store and retrieve data from anywhere.

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Pros:

I like the most that they have integrations and documentation for almost every technology availlable, its fast and easy to use, what more could you ask for.

Cons:

The only limitation is this can not be used as a block storage and it do not support formatting and can used for object purpose.

Amazon S3 ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.6
Value for Money
4.5

Likelihood to recommend

8.7/ 10

Amazon S3 has an overall rating of 4.7 out 5 stars based on 1,101 user reviews on Capterra.

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Iddy
Iddy
Solution Architect in Tanzania
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Amazon S3 it is the future

5.0 last month New

Comments: I have an experience of 2 years using the Amazon S3 to store and Archive my data.

Pros:

I like the Amazon S3 because it has ability to store my data at high level and being able to access it whenever i wanted and it very affordable in terms of pricing and also durable.

Cons:

I think of how it has fewer rules during creation of the buckets may sometime do a little harm or being tiresome process.

Alex
Information and Communication Officer in Kenya
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

User review

5.0 7 months ago

Comments: Overal it was nice except common cloud issues

Pros:

Smooth and convenient to access and store files

Cons:

I liked the fact that large data amounts can be stored securely.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

The Ultimate Cloud Storage Solution

5.0 last month New

Pros:

My preferred option for storing unstructured data is Amazon S3. It is easy to use, dependable, and reasonably priced. It is the ideal option for simple data management because it is the industry standard and connects easily with the majority of data analytics tools.

Cons:

So far, Amazon has not caused me any problems. I'm very happy with its reliability and performance, and everything has gone smoothly.

Tonia
IT Administrator in US
Nonprofit Organisation Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Amazon S3 review

3.0 2 years ago

Comments: Amazon S3 did exactly what I wanted it to do once I got past the setup obstacles. It is a bit difficult to navagate. Amazon does offer free training for their products which is a plus.

Pros:

With Amazon being such a large company, we can use multiple technologies with only one bill. Amazon is well known and does a good job at storing and retaining my data. Amazon has many more features than their competitors which is great if you know how to set them up and run them. Amazon S3 does offer free training for their products which is helpful.

Cons:

Amazon S3 platform is hard to navigate, I feel it is ment for an advanced user rather than someone who is trying out new technology. Amazon is a bit higher priced than many competitors.

Sean
DevOps Engineer in Canada
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

S3 is the gold standard for cloud object storage

5.0 4 months ago

Comments: It's a great product that's always available and is the gold standard for object storage in the cloud. I don't have any complains.

Pros:

It's simple, it works and it's cheap. Any time I need to store unorganised data my default is to put it in an S3 bucket. I love how it's the industry standard and any data analytics tools always have an s3 integration.

Cons:

I wish I could see a preview of objects stored in the buckets without having to download them

Craig John
Craig John
Senior Technical Operations Specialist in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Gold Standard for bucketed data

5.0 9 months ago

Pros:

The bucketing system and file structure are easy to navigate, and the UI is intuitive. There's plenty of documentation, and the UI is approachable for those less technically inclined (we have folks with workflows that involve moving around some S3 data, but not getting much deeper than that, and being able to easily copy/move folders using the UI makes more sense than trying to teach CLI commands). No issues with reliability of access.

Cons:

Integrations are most effective when using other AWS products, but that's fairly standard these days. Would love to see macros or AI assistance for regular, repeatable tasks.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Telecommunications, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Reliable and Versatile Cloud Storage

5.0 3 weeks ago New

Comments: Overall it's been positive in terms of storage, scalability and reliability. Initial learning could be challenging but once in the game it should be an easy and smooth ride.

Pros:

Amazon S3 is pretty straightforward in terms of setup. It can handle small amount of data to the massive amount of data. The integration with Amazon services makes it a core part of cloud architecture.

Cons:

The costing breakdown could be a bit tricky to manage and monitor. Since it's easily accessibility can make it prone to the dodgy public access of data leak.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

One of the best object storage

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: enable soft delete feature is wonderful as a security feature. This provide an extra layer of security.

Pros:

cost of the service, easy to configure, can configure HA in different region.

Cons:

There should have been some tier made of SSD disk to serve better performance.

JR
IT Specialist in US
Nonprofit Organisation Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Amazon S3 is the best storage provider on the web

5.0 2 weeks ago New

Comments: Very positive. It functioned to store data for our mobile apps and a mirror backup system in association with RDS and EC2 instance running laravel. It also stored our original archive before upgrading to a proper DAM (which uses S3 to store its data too)

Pros:

It can do basically anything you program it to do.

Cons:

Learning curve is quite challenging. Documentation is helpful but product is constantly changing and requires users to stay on top of their knowledge base.

Harish
Software Engineer in India
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Amazon S3 buckets uses as Software Engineer

5.0 last month New

Pros:

It provides us incredible diverse tooling options and we have unlimited storage capacity

Cons:

Its billing have always been confusing for me and my team

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Telecommunications, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Store, transfer and secure data with Amazon S3

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: The overall experience with S3 is great . I gave us lot of flexibility to store our huge volume of more securely and safe .

Pros:

The data storage made really easy with Amazon's S3 service. The power of the cloud helps the data transfer and encryption easy .

Cons:

There are cases where the S3 event triggers at times wont work . Also ,If the S3 get a desktop client by AWS , I feel it would be a great value add.

Zeghoudi
assistance programing in Algeria
Security & Investigations, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The Amazon Simple Storage Service

4.0 last year

Comments: What an excellent platform for collecting, storing, and analyzing data smoothly, in a safe and distinctive manner

Pros:

What I loved about this platform is the ease of collecting and storing data in a smooth and distinctive way

Cons:

Maybe the size of the encryption for the cloud

Kamal
Ceo in US
Animation, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Amazon s3 review

5.0 last year

Pros:

The storage was very useful and could be used to store plenty of things

Cons:

There is nothing to complain about. Amazon is very useful

Yash
QAE in India
Financial Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Reliable And Scalable Storage

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: My overall experience says that we are using S3 for huge time and it helps our data to be protected and stored properly. Plus it helps with integration with Postman too.

Pros:

I liked it because it is very cost-effective and the overall security provided by it is unbeatable. It delivers data in a short time which makes it a product with fast performance

Cons:

It should provide a guideline for fresher users to understand all the flows in the product rest sometimes transfer costs should be less.

Martin
Martin
manager in Ghana
Verified LinkedIn User
Food Production, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Amazon S3 review

4.0 last year

Comments: Overall amazon s3 is excellent and helps solve the storage problems I have.It is also easy to understand.

Pros:

The interface is extremely user friendly and easy to use.I like how the AWS free tier is.It is also very easy to manage my data.

Cons:

My only problem with it is that not all file operations are supported.

Muhammd
Account Manager in Indonesia
Construction, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Increasing Productivity

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: It's Great

Pros:

All. It's easy to use, understand, wide coverage, and good support.

Cons:

I don't have it. Keep The Stability Performance and Security

Bernard
IT Administrator in UK
E-Learning, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

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Amazon S3 Review

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Flawless and worth every penny

Pros:

The ease of use. As simple as drag and drop on to the cloud. Very useful for large cloud data storage.

Cons:

There is nothing no not like about S3 truly

Arun
designer in United Arab Emirates
Animation, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

feedback

5.0 last year

Pros:

powerful and easy to use in installation good user friendly

Julia
manager in Canada
Accounting, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Great application

5.0 last year

Pros:

This has made our business and office much more organized which has helped us scale

Cons:

At times it needs to update and this can take some time to do this

Rodrigo
Sales & Administrative in Spain
Automotive, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

We store the sensitive information for the clients there it is good

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

To be able to block some files and nobody can access it

Cons:

The developer team took time, but now it is good.

Pumelele
Graphic Designer in South Africa
Design, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Storage Superiority

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: I have been using Amazon S3 for a while now, and it has become my go-to storage solution. I anticipate that I will continue using it in the future.

Pros:

Amazon S3 is an incredibly reliable and scalable storage service. It is simple to use, cost-effective, and provides excellent performance for data storage and retrieval.

Cons:

While Amazon S3 is excellent for storing and retrieving data, it may not be the best solution for processing large volumes of data. This requires additional services that may come at a cost.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Amazon S3 for storage

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Amazon S3 is scalable, reliable, can use to store back ups and host sites

Cons:

It doe snot provide a good online UI and sometimes hard to use for a non-developer

Kunal
Supply Chain Manager in US
Consumer Goods, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Good Product

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

I like this product. Amazon does a good job in security and quality

Cons:

It can be expensive to use this product according to my coworkers

Angel
IT Manager in Spain
Automotive, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

I wanted to test AWS and never could run my application

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

The functionalities, they have plenty of it, and looks like it is easy

Cons:

I was trying a lot to run my application, I even have a discount code from them to test everything, but never made the app run, while I was using the same code on app engine, when I tried support I needed to pay a lot just to try and ask for the basic help.After months never made it run.

Vincent
Lead Software Engineer in US
Hospital & Health Care, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The solution for hosting my static content

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

It is so easy to use and manage our static content.

Cons:

The UI can take a little getting used to