# AWS S3 Objects to Alation Reviews **Vendor:** Information Asset, LLC. **Category:** [AWS Marketplace Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/aws-marketplace) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 ## About AWS S3 Objects to Alation AWS S3 Objects to Alation is a solution developed by Information Asset, LLC, designed to seamlessly import metadata and sample data from Amazon S3 objects into the Alation data catalog. By leveraging an AWS Lambda function, this integration supports all file types stored in S3 buckets. For specific formats such as CSV, JSON, XML, Avro, Parquet, and ORC, the solution parses the files to extract schema information and sample data, enhancing data discoverability and governance within Alation. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Cataloging: Automatically imports and catalogs S3 buckets and their contents into Alation, providing a unified view of data assets. - Advanced Parsing Support: Offers specialized parsing for CSV, JSON, XML, Avro, Parquet, and ORC files, extracting detailed schema information and sample data to enrich the data catalog. - AWS Lambda Integration: Utilizes AWS Lambda functions to facilitate efficient and scalable data extraction processes. Primary Value and User Benefits: This solution addresses the challenges of data discovery and governance by integrating S3 objects with Alation, thereby improving data visibility, cataloging, and collaboration capabilities. Users benefit from enhanced data discoverability, streamlined governance processes, and the ability to make informed decisions based on comprehensive metadata and sample data insights. ## AWS S3 Objects to Alation Reviews ### 1. Manage your metadata efficiently **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhit H. | Data Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** AWS Simple Storage Service is a highly scalable and secure object storage service offered by Amazon Web Services. Alation is the platform that helps organisation to manage their metadata. With this services, organisation can efficiently manage their metadata and can perform operations on that. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Intial Integration part can be challenging, we will be required specific configuration and setup for that which can be challenging. Also we will have to depend on 3rd party tools and softwares. But once all done, it will be very effective and organisations can work on metadata efficiently. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Now a days, almost every company started collecting data for their future growth. But processing such huge amount of data is very challenging, Alation allows user to manage such metadata efficiently. It also provides data usage insights which help organizations understand how AWS S3 objects are being utilized and identify potential optimization opportunities. It works very well with metadata. ### 2. My experience on using the AWS S3 Objects to Alation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mothish K. | Technical Writer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Integrating AWS S3 Objects with Alation proved to be a valuable addition to our data ecosystem. It streamlined the process of discovering and understanding data stored in our S3 buckets, fostering better collaboration and enabling more efficient data analysis within our organization. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** One of the challenges I faced was the lack of real-time data synchronization between AWS S3 Objects and Alation. Although Alation performed an initial scan and cataloged the metadata of the objects in the S3 bucket, it did not automatically update the catalog when new files were added or existing files were modified within the bucket. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a data analyst at a large company, I was tasked with integrating AWS S3 Objects with Alation, our data catalog system. This integration allowed our company to easily discover, understand, and collaborate on the data stored in our S3 buckets. ### 3. Cloud storage for software development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anushka J. | Summer Internship, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** The best feature about AWS S3 is that it provides unlimited storage virtually, it also provides you with a lot of security benefits like encryption, bucket policy. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** The thing I dislike about AWS S3 is that it does not have any option for searching or quering data stored in S3. It requires third party apps for doing the same. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves my problems related to security and storage. Since it provides unlimited virtual storage. The data stored can be basically accessed by anywhere. Data stored is also secure. ### 4. Excellent product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kanishk B. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** AWS S3 Objects to Alation has a quick turn around time, the system is very robust and supports integrations as well. we can use Lamba function very quickly for parsing. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** it is slightly expensive 20k USD for a complete year is a bit on the higher end, also it requires some decent amount of AWS knowledge before using it. if it is a very large amount of data then speed is also effected slightly. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are basically using AWS S3 Objects to Alation for parsing our data and then extracting the data and adding to alation. we use various file types like JSON, XML , CSV etc. ### 5. S3 is a useful cloud storage solution by AWS... **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaspreet K. | Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** S3 provides folder storage structure bucket which is very useful and cheaper as compare to market availabilities. It's a solution for easily maintain and readable with simple functionalities. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Few points need to be improve like delete functionalities and AWS need prior knowledge to write programming languages. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problems related to storage. And also helps in data security. It helps us to extracting the data files which was adding to alation. ### 6. Easy to transfer data from one to other **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** It is very useful to store a large number of data which we can easily transfer from one to other without any hustle. It has security and easy to access facility **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Sometime it take to much time and also give error in between so we have to wait until it fixed but other then this all good . You can use it in work place as well as home **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solve my problem of data storage and transfer that data from one to other so it will be useful for them as well . With this our work become easy and efficient ### 7. Data storage solution **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash J. | Application Development Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Maintaining and storing data is easy with the help of S3 buckets. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Intializing and configuring require substantial resource allocation. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides cloud storage hence we can access data on the go. ### 8. Best Cloud storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monika S. | Software Programmer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** We have stored our data in cloud storage, it's easily accessible. They are provided unlimited storage in buckets. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** It's taking time to upload large files; It Might be an internet issue or anything else. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have store our data in one location and use in another location no need to carry laptop or hard disk ### 9. Streamlining Data Discovery and Governance: AWS S3 Objects to Alation Integration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham S. | Graduate Engineer Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Efficient and automated data cataloging, promoting data discovery and governance. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Limited support for complex metadata mappings and transformations. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS S3 Objects to Alation solves the challenges of data discovery and governance by seamlessly integrating S3 objects with Alation, benefiting me through improved data visibility, cataloging, and collaboration capabilities. ### 10. Importing S3 objects easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mamata K. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** It makes easy to import data from S3 using Aws Lambda. This process is seamless, easy and support multiple file formats like csv, json, xml etc. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Need prior knowledge of Aws, writing lamdbas and programming languages. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration with services is pretty straightforward. Also, capable to trigger events and act upon S3 data. ### 11. wonderful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak Kumar J. | Social Media Marketing Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Understanding how to use it and complete the deployment process is the best part of it. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** There is nothing to dislike for AWS S3, I found it good. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWA S3 helps access the S3 objects easily and add them to the system. ### 12. S3 storage **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guganprasath K. | Colud Operations /Build Specialist , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** S3 storage bucket is a very useful storage solution provided by AWS. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Safe delete option is not like Microsoft Azure **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cheaper storage account ok cloud solution ### 13. Quickly importing S3 objects to alation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaspreet S. | Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** We can directly use AWS lambda functions to import S3 objects to alation. Although it supports all types but CSV, json, XML, etc can be directly imported i.e. special parsing support is Given by AWS for these. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** It is billable and must require some AWS knowledge along with some programming knowledge for creating AWS lambda functions so that they can put S3 objects to alation. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** To be precise u don't have to directly use S3 to access objects now, rather just call the AWS lambda created and it will do the job. ### 14. Easy to learn and integrate **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Fast turnaround on learning how to use this and deploy. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** I found the calls to make to get this to work was easy, documentation and samples were provided with a clear path to get this deployed in the live field. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** A fast solution to a requirement to grab AWS S3 objects from the cloud and pull into local systems. ### 15. Ease of access to a techi **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RAJAN M. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** It's very easy to setup if you are aware about the AWS environment. The best features is you can use AWS console to directly access all the features and set it up. This is also cheaper option when comes to storing of archive data. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** As I have given the title ease of access for a techi but if a non technical person is starting to use this there might be some difficulty to him for understanding all the environmental. So choose wisely as per your need and knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering AWS S3 Objects to Alation:** Recommended **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** As current time is all about data, so this feature of AWS helps to store the data with High Availability, whenever you required you can access it and analyze it. We had very large amount of data which we storing at S3 for archival. ### 16. Easy to set up and use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Hernani C. | Co-Founder & CTO, Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** It's pretty easy to set up the service and to use. Moreover, its integration with other services is pretty straightforward (e.g. lambda, sns, sqs, etc.) and it can be triggered based on different type of events such as creation and deletion of files. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** I believe the trigger rules could be even more versatile, such as easier to trigger when a specific type of file is created inside a specific folder for example. **Recommendations to others considering AWS S3 Objects to Alation:** Make sure you do your research before setting up and connecting S3 with other services. Set up a simple integration test to make sure it works as expected. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use S3 mainly to store raw data that needs to be accessible for processing (aka hot storage). Once the date is no longer needed or will not be used in the upcoming months, I send it to cold storage. ### 17. AWS S3 Bucket **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gustavo G. | IT Team Leader, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Flexibility of access and management of the bucket **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** I haven't found anything that I dislike. Maybe the price. **Recommendations to others considering AWS S3 Objects to Alation:** Integrate it with APIs and automate it with AWS CLI **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to integrate an alternate repository for data via APIs ### 18. Delightful migration experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan David O. | Software Test Automation Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** The process to import the data is quite easy from reading the available docs you can start to move your data to Alation. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** From a user with a non-technical background in cloud/tech/ it might be difficult to get started with the migration process **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Move our company data in order to perform analysis of this data, this integration allow us to move the data more easily into Alation ### 19. S3 **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman Kumar K. | SDE - 1, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Easy to store objects, find it cheaper and quick to fetch objects. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Overhead is more and lookup always downloads the file **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using for storing our files ### 20. Seamless migration pipeline **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** It creates a catalogue in alation, quite easy to start migration objects to alation. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** Need complete knowledge around environment and technical details. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** s3 mainly is used for live objects storage and not for long term storage of data. ### 21. Amazon AWS S3 Review and my experience using S3 in my projects **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jagruti P. | Senior Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** - It is easy to implements when you have everything is implemented in AWS clouds like ec2, AWS pipeline, and many other things you can manage in one way like usage of s3 using code library of java. - Good API is Available for easy code management and set restrictions and permission in many languages like JAVA, Nodejs, Javascript, etc. - Another thing is I like most is the AWS Console User Interface of S3, where we can manage our buckets and files etc. -Multiple tiers of storage are available like standards, Zone wise storage, S3 Glacier, Archive, etc., which will help in cost reduction of the overall application. **What do you dislike about AWS S3 Objects to Alation?** - Non-developer persons can not easily use this as having complicated rules and permission; also, if they are using AWS console UI, then also sometimes it is hard to understand each policy and storage type. - If you are using a Linux OS system, then it is easy to manage using a command line, but when you are using windows OS, then you need to install much other software to run this using command line, but still, the output is not much achievable. **Recommendations to others considering AWS S3 Objects to Alation:** I would suggest now instead of using S3, and we have another option as well that GCP storage which is easy compare to this and easy to use as well. **What problems is AWS S3 Objects to Alation solving and how is that benefiting you?** - I solved the problem of users profile image storage issues using S3, which will manage other application resources as well as resources, application images, logos, and other configuration files with different roles and permission, which solve my storage issue inside the application and make application as much faster as possible. - Using AWS S3 i am also able to save my ec2 storage which will may consume more memories to rettive and fetch the images and other files. ## AWS S3 Objects to Alation Discussions - [What is AWS S3 Objects to Alation used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-s3-objects-to-alation-used-for) - [View AWS S3 Objects to Alation pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-s3-objects-to-alation/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+15%3A50%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f05e868c-8ce2-4cf2-a2f0-1f78d03cf011&secure%5Btoken%5D=cb421367dea1786184528459fd17c01a93ec1513b42e48ab80cd018a29e4d02e&format=llm_user) ## AWS S3 Objects to Alation Features **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration