Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Reviews & Product Details

Amazon's AWS S3 provides world class cloud hosting of static content and objects. Using S3 any content which needs to be served over internet for websites or apps could be stored and retrieved with AWS console panel. They also offer SDK and API's for the same purpose, which are very good for custom needs. It's fast, safe and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS S3 has it's own cons, it is not suitable for everyone beyond the free tier as pricing is very high. Second thing it's settings and other properties are a little complicated. It can't be directly connected to AWS EC2 server, we have do follow many steps in order to get both of them worked for the same project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 is one of the best cloud storage service for static content or various objects.

2. They offer 5 GB of free storage under AWS Free trial. Even after that the pricing of AWS S3 is reasonable.

3. They offers various extra things like Versioning, various security settings and other options, so we can customize everything according to the needs of the organisation.

4. They offer easy access of settings as well as all bucket data from their console panel as well as through their API's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. There settings are still complex even in the newest version of S3, a little mistake makes it stop working.

2. Pricing for video streaming using AWS S3 is very high comparing to its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon S3 has always been easy to use, and the recent update to the UI has made it even better.

The flexibility to expand storage when necessary, and pricing options or tiers, makes it very convenient.

It is intuitive to use, and allows for storing practically unlimited amounts of data with reliability and consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes managing permissions or connections to other AWS services can be slightly complex if there are many different levels of access necessary. It is important to manage security permissions carefully if there are private files or folders.

Usually using 3rd party applications to navigate the folder structure is easier than using the UI directly, but that has been improved recently with the UI upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS S3 comes with AWS Trial, so it's easy to setup. It allows static file serving to the end users without much to worry as it is not too expensive for large data. Although it have upto 5GB storage for free, storing more than that too is feasible because of it's nice pricing. And the uptime can't be ignored when we talk about the best thing of AWS S3. The static data can be synced with one line of code directly from AWS Ec2 instance within few seconds without incurring any charges for the transfer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a little complex when we set up the AWS s3 for the first time. As we have to create bucket through console and then we have setup policies, choose from various settings, a little headache for the beginners. The main issue that I personally feel with AWS is that messing with AWS s3 settings without advanced knowledge ends up either leaking out the files over the internet or not serving at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think S3 is the best object storage service available in the market. It is very easy to start with this as it doesn't require a lot of learning. S3's security and reliability is really good. Managing access on a bucket is also easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Modifying an existing file would require to create a new entry. You will have download, modify and then push that again Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon's S3 Service offers 5GB Free Storage, it is most of the times sufficient for website owners. It's higher uptime and fast service makes it perfect fit to our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's settings, like Bucket Policy, Versioning etc are little complex, only advanced user or experienced developer can handle this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about AWS S3 is that it comes with the free trial of AWS and it provides 5GB of Free Storage per month. It's high availability, faster loading performance makes it one of the best option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's little bit complex to setup and maintain due to it's various types of policy and other settings like versioning. It's latest version is quite improved, but it still requires more good ui/ux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Supports simple integration

2. Can be deployed without much technical knowledge (not for advanced use)

3. Almost no down-time

It is also included in the free-tier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, though rarely, the files get corrupted during uploading. A stable connection is must is AWS is used in web integrations (not like FTP with can be used also on slow connections). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Accessing the storage is fast and there are many options to mount the storage to your computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A little complicated to get set up but they do have tutorials. The tutorials are thorough and if followed correctly anyone should be able to get things set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially, I used S3 as an image store for user uploads until I found out it could be so much more. I also use S3 to host static websites (Freely). With Route53 I can link a domain to an S3 bucket with the web files and have a fully functional web Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuring S3 can be a headache the first time. Access to an S3 bucket has to be managed from ACLs, Bucket Policy and CORS which is a little too much at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S3 is easy to use, fast, reliable and cheap compared to other competitors with a different set of storage classes for a variety of use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the user interface of the s3 console. However the cli is simple and i prefer using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maximum availability, ease to access and it is at very low cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Renaming the bucket, no way to to change it directly.

Cannot upload compressed and and extraordinary with in the bucket Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon S3 is a very simple solution to use, very reliable, which you could always trust in if you need to host any files for your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What not to love? Its an awesome tool, but they charge for it. It'd be even better if the price was more attractive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to use in our office environment where we host couple of static websites.

- We also use this as our storage service for some of the models we train in aws sagemaker

- If you are already using aws in your office environment then this is the best on-cloud storage you could get.

- S3 charge is ver less and they charge more for read and write Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Bound to only aws ecosystem so cannot integrate more from outside aws

- Configuration of Route 53 can be difficult for simple hosting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

we have a large team of over 100 remote employees, performing many different functions. We are able to effectively store and manage recordings in an extremely efficient manner. This is extremely helpful because several of our units need to access the stored audio recordings, on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

again, this product does EXACTLY what we need and want it to do. It performs a simple function for our team, and there is not much room for error or dislikes. It meets our goals perfectly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Working on amazon's simple storage system (S3) from last 10 months, If you are looking for an affordable, multi-purpose means of storing data in the cloud, then Amazon’s S3 is an option worth considering. i used S3 for storing large amount of static data of our application for example 1)website's static content 2)Large size video files 3) large size image files , 4)application s static files etc .

Amazon S3 keeps the redundant data across multiple data centers for high scalability. The user can select the region where his/her data will be stored. This reduces the latency in storing and retrieving the data. Amazon S3 also offers security on the objects provided by amazon SLA.. The user can make the object publicly or privately accessible. We can also store encrypted data in Amazon S3, and it guarantees a server uptime of 99.9 percent.

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The main disadvantage i found of using the Amazon S3 is rename the bucket. There is no direct way to do it. One need to copy entire content to the different bucket with intended bucket name and then remove the old bucket. Sometimes it creates issues.

also speed and performance is low compared to Amazon Cloudfront network. also you can not edit the content directly on s3 you have to edit your static code files on your machine then you have to replace it on S3 also you can not execute code on s3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data is very valuable and it is increasing day by day. So, storage of the data is key an aspect of any organization. The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is right now one of the best cloud storage services. We can store any kind of data into S3 (like text, pdf, audio, video, etc.) which supports HIPPA complaints. The best thing I like about S3 is that It has strong access policy which secures your data from the unwanted user. It has different access levels like user-level, module-level or amazon service-level. In a nutshell, The S3 is very secure and flexible cloud storage compares to other services in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has all the feature and functionality, but it also some limitation. The interface of S3 is quite slow and not user-friendly. On top of that, it can be improved uppon throughput of the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility and feasibility to store the dynamic content on cloud storage while ensuring cost efficiency. A must use application for people who are looking for cheap storage but that is very efficient as well. This application not only can be used to store content but also helps in maintaining security of the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Does not compatible with system level tooling. There should be a dedicated desktop/laptop application that give s3 access on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's incredibly reliable and affordable.

Its resilience figure is just astonishing 99.99999. After initial latency to setup the stream (both in upload and in download) the speed of data transfer is super fast.

Objects in the store can be tagged, encrypted at rest (both with automatic keys provided by AWS and with keys you can provide yourself for maximum privacy), versioned and served via HTTPS. You can even host a static website using just S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initial latency can be long. Also, uploading a file can result in a HTTP/202, and the file not be available for others to download for many more seconds. Maximum size of an object is 5GB, but you can make multi-segment objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.