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Didar Moldabekov - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at Overonix Technologies
Real User
Dec 8, 2022
Easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
  • "The solution requires you to buy and use Amazon services."

What is our primary use case?

Our company uses the solution for backups, data pumps, files, and logs. Our projects connect to the solution rather than individual users connecting to it. 

What is most valuable?

The solution is within the Amazon architecture so it easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data. We do not need to connect to direct services to download data. 

What needs improvement?

The solution requires you to buy and use Amazon services. 

The solution could be more auto functional. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for one year. 

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good so I rate it a ten out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable. It is easy to add gigabytes or more users and is more a question of budget. 

How are customer service and support?

I have not needed technical support. 

How was the initial setup?

The setup is very easy. Every junior Dev Ops can set up the solution and use data storage. 

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution in-house. 

There is no deployment because it is a data storage solution. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is very inexpensive at 50 cents per gigabyte, per month. 

Some packages or discounts are available. Big companies can use the solution for free. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

You can use the solution for projects that are within the Amazon architecture. 

You cannot use the solution if you have your own services or data centers because it is dependent on the Amazon architecture. 

If you have a service such as Azure in Amazon, then you can use the stream but not the solution directly. 

What other advice do I have?

The solution is great for data and cloud storage. 

I recommend the solution and rate it an eight out of ten.  

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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MiodragMilojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Archirect at Telenor
Real User
Sep 23, 2022
Reliable and expandable
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon S3's best features are its reliability and capacity to expand."
  • "Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller."

What is our primary use case?

I use Amazon S3 as storage and a platform for installing various types of software.

What is most valuable?

Amazon S3's best features are its reliability and capacity to expand.

What needs improvement?

Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Amazon S3 for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is scalable.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously I used Microsoft and Oracle.

What other advice do I have?

I'd advise those thinking of implementing Amazon S3 to carefully plan their requirements and not use too many servers. I would recommend Amazon S3 to others and rate it eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Zeev Snir - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Practice Architect at Ness Technologies
Vendor
Jul 12, 2022
Responsive support, reliable, and easy setup
Pros and Cons
  • "The scalability of Amazon S3 is good."
  • "The support from Amazon S3 has been knowledgable and responsive."
  • "Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."

What is our primary use case?

Amazon S3 can be used for central storage, backup, log, and storage.

How has it helped my organization?

The reliability that Amazon S3 has provided has improved organizations.

What needs improvement?

Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for approximately 10 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Amazon S3 is good.

How are customer service and support?

The support from Amazon S3 has been knowledgable and responsive.

I rate the support from Amazon S3 a five out of five.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Amazon S3 is easy, it can be done in less than one day.

What about the implementation team?

We handle the implementation of Amazon S3. We have approximately 40 people that are able to do it.

What was our ROI?

It has been difficult for us to determine ROI.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The license of Amazon S3 is based on volume, capacity, and time. The overall price of the solution could improve. The support has to be added if you want it at an additional cost.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others is to pay attention to the backups and copies in Snapshots.

I rate Amazon S3 a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Tanmoy Prasad - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at Unitech Ltd
Real User
Jun 27, 2022
Reliable with high usage
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon S3 is reliable."
  • "In the housing market, we have a lot of buying and they use the application to manage their lectures and receipts."
  • "Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Amazon S3 for storage. This is a Cloud solution. We have developed a new application which has partly been released to the end customer, but not the complete solution. In the housing market, we have a lot of buying and they use the application to manage their lectures and receipts. This is what we are using Amazon S3 for the storage.

What needs improvement?

Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for approximately one and a half years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is reliable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not used Amazon S3 extensively, but the usage has been very high.

We have approximately 40 to 50 people using this solution. There might be an increased usage.

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted the technical support form Amazon S3.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have not used other similar solutions to Amazon S3.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation of Amazon S3 is done by a third party.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of Amazon S3 could be less expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon S3 a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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reviewer1926564 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Member Of Technical Staff at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Aug 29, 2025
Useful life cycle policies, highly stable, and simple setup
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the accuracy and the life cycle policies, which help when moving from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

I am using Amazon S3 for storing all the organization data, which comes from a data pipeline.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the accuracy and the life cycle policies, which helps when moving from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used Amazon S3 within the last 12 months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is 99.99 percent stable. The solution is highly stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Amazon S3 is good. If we want more storage we only need to pay extra.

All the workloads of the whole company go to Amazon S3. As our workloads increase, the data increases, and we will use more storage in Amazon S3.

How are customer service and support?

I have not used the support from Amazon S3.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have not used another solution similar to Amazon S3.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Amazon S3 is not complex. We are only using it for a storage layer and there were not any complexities.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost of Amazon S3 is good. The pricing model is based on the usage of the solution.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others, it is one of the most used storage solutions.

I rate Amazon S3 a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Bhaskar N Subramanian - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Hobbycue.com
Real User
May 9, 2024
Useful for storage of images and documents
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that I mostly used the tool's free tier version, so I like the fact that its cost is very low."
  • "I didn't find the user interface very friendly."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution for the storage of images and documents.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that I mostly used the tool's free tier version, so I like the fact that its cost is very low.

What needs improvement?

Recently, I was trying to clean up the data because I have a lot of old, unused objects and images. I am trying to identify the files with the highest sizes and determine if I need to keep them or delete them. I didn't find the user interface very friendly. Beyond 399 or 999 objects, the tool's user interface was not allowing me to use the sort option. I had to use various keywords to search phrases and shortlist them so that I got less than 399 objects and could use the sort option. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for around three years. I think two years back, I was in a different organization, which was an AWS partner. I am a customer of the tool.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

How are customer service and support?

The solution's technical support is satisfactory. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

In my previous job, I used Sagemaker, but I don't use it currently. I have also used Amazon EC2 and CloudWatch for billing alerts or something that I might have set them up in the company.

How was the initial setup?

The product's deployment phase is quite comfortable with no issues. The tool's maintenance part is fairly easy.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I don't use it that frequently, so I think it's too early to comment on the tool's pricing structure. Six months later, I may have more data related to the tool.

I can't comment on the pricing part of the product since I don't deal with a high workload for now.

I use the tool's free tier. I believe that there is a need to make annual payments towards the licensing charges associated with the product.

What other advice do I have?

Speaking of the process for retrieving data with the help of the tool, I would say that it is used to just display images on a website. When the page is opened, it gets linked to images and I display it on the website using Amazon S3.

I did not face any performance issues with Amazon S3.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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IT consultant at mptechconsult
Real User
May 8, 2024
Easy to use and provides good functionality and accessibility
Pros and Cons
  • "The product is easy to use."
  • "The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts."

What is our primary use case?

We are using the solution to host our website and manage the database.

What is most valuable?

We have an online portal, and we are providing services to customers. We need to maintain an elastic database storage, along with security features. The solution’s functionality and accessibility are valuable to us. It's geared towards users. It makes things simple. The product is easy to use.

What needs improvement?

The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts. It should allow more customization. Users should be able to place their shortcuts on the dashboard. It will make things easier.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The product is scalable. We have over 50 users online at any given point. We can increase it as we need.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is straightforward. We have a team of developers. They are very happy with the tool. The deployment did not take much effort. The product is cloud-based. We have six developers and engineers in our technical team.

What was our ROI?

Everything is housed in one place, so it is all easily accessible. The scalability is good. We have an assurance of data integrity. It is critical.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing can be improved.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We are also using Azure.

What other advice do I have?

For disaster recovery, there's a backup going on in AWS. At the same time, we take our own local backup. It is a daily process. People who want to use the solution must explore the tool and look at the training videos. It is quite straightforward.

We have a subscription model with our customers. They pay it yearly. There are no additional costs associated with the product. We had a problem with storage when we were working with on-premise servers. The hard disks were failing because of the volume of the data. They were regularly failing every three to four months. There was a cost associated with it. It impacted our project.

Overall, I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

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PradeepKumar12 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Mahindra Comviva
Real User
May 7, 2024
An easily accessible, fast and effective solution with good performance
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon S3 is easily accessible, fast and effective. Its performance is good."
  • "The tool needs to improve its flexibility in support."

What is our primary use case?

I use the tool for my product deployment. 

What is most valuable?

Amazon S3 is easily accessible, fast and effective. Its performance is good. 

What needs improvement?

The tool needs to improve its flexibility in support. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product for a couple of months. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is stable and reliable. Its resource utilization is also good. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the product's scalability an eight point five out of ten. My company has more than 200 users. 

How was the initial setup?

Amazon S3's deployment takes some time. However, once you learn it, it's not complex. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The tool's licensing costs are yearly. I rate it a six to seven out of ten. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten. Setting it up takes some time at the beginning, but it's reliable and stable once it's all set up.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Souvik Banerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Real User
Feb 2, 2023
Helpful for storing data, easy deployment, and useful encryption
Pros and Cons
  • "An important feature of the Amazon S3's system is that it offers encryption while the files are at rest. This is crucial in ensuring the security of the files being restored and addressing potential security risks. That's what I would emphasize."
  • "The cost of the solution should be reduced."

What is our primary use case?

Most people who need to store files usually turn to Amazon S3. The use case for this is not only for me but for anyone building technology who needs to store files.

How has it helped my organization?

Amazon S3 helps to store data, such as Excel, audio, and video.

What is most valuable?

An important feature of the Amazon S3's system is that it offers encryption while the files are at rest. This is crucial in ensuring the security of the files being restored and addressing potential security risks. That's what I would emphasize.

What needs improvement?

The cost of the solution should be reduced.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for a long time.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the stability of Amazon S3 a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the scalability of Amazon S3 a ten out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

I rate the support of Amazon S3 a seven out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The implementation of Amazon S3 was easy.

What about the implementation team?

I did the implementation of the solution myself.

What was our ROI?

I have received a return on investment using Amazon S3.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of Amazon S3 should be reduced.

I rate the price of Amazon S3 a ten out of ten.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I did not evaluate other solutions before choosing Amazon S3.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon S3 a nine out of ten.

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Yannam-C Chiranjeevi - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Product Engineer at Estate One
Real User
Jan 30, 2023
Suitable for different use cases, simple implementation, and cost effective
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is its flexibility as a solution to suit many different use cases."
  • "The support is better than other cloud providers but sometimes it takes a while to have a resolution to our issues."

What is our primary use case?

We have a data warehouse and a data lake using Amazon S3. Additionally, we use it for application streaming.

We have our computer systems that have storage but we do use the cloud storage available from Amazon S3. However, it depends on the type of data we have and whether we use the cloud or not.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is its flexibility as a solution to suit many different use cases.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for approximately six years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Two third of our company use this solution.

How are customer service and support?

The support is better than other cloud providers but sometimes it takes a while to have a resolution to our issues.

I rate the support from Amazon S3 a seven out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Amazon S3 was straightforward.

I rate the initial setup of Amazon S3 a ten out of ten.

What about the implementation team?

We have a few developers that we use for deployment.

What was our ROI?

The solution is worth the money and we have seen an ROI. However, it is not our primary goal. We are trying to optimize different areas. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Amazon S3 is a cost-effective solution compared to the others.

I rate the price of Amazon S3 a two out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon S3 a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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