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MiodragMilojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Archirect at Telenor
Real User
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.

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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
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
Top 5
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.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
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Founding Partner at 2Five1
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Works as a backup and storage solution but needs to incorporate more frequent updates
Pros and Cons
  • "The product helps to define storage type based on the requirement."
  • "Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."

What is our primary use case?

When we develop applications, it generates files. We use Amazon S3 as a backup and storage solution. 

What is most valuable?

The product helps to define storage type based on the requirement. 

What needs improvement?

Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with the product for two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

My company has around 100 users for Amazon S3. It is scalable and easy to increase or change configuration. 

How are customer service and support?

Amazon S3's tech support provides necessary solutions and answers to our problems. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The tool's deployment is easy. It comes with guided instructions, which makes it easy to monitor and manage. The tool's deployment took 30 minutes to complete. We have one AWS engineer to help us implement the tool on the cloud. 

What about the implementation team?

I did the deployment myself. 

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

The tool's licensing costs are monthly and cheap. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Yannam-C Chiranjeevi - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Product Engineer at Estate One
Real User
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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RahulJadhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Hadoop Administrator at Capgemini
Real User
Offers high availability, fault tolerance and scalability
Pros and Cons
  • "We can store incremental data and get high availability and fault tolerance."
  • "The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for storing the input-output of our processing. We are customers of Amazon. 

What is most valuable?

Version control is great, it means we can store incremental data, and get high availability and fault tolerance. If we accidentally delete something we can recover it by using S3. It also enables the option of reverting to old files. 

What needs improvement?

The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be. If we want to access data, we should be able to do it quickly. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for five years. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable, there are no limitations on storage. There are around 10,000 users in the company. 

How are customer service and support?

Amazon provides good documentation for this solution so we've never contacted technical support. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy. It just requires logging in to AWS, and it's available.

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

This is a pay-as-you-use, on-demand service. It's not very expensive. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We went with S3 because of its high availability, fault tolerance and scalability. Those are the three main reasons we chose it. 

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?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Manasa Jayaramaiah - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Great for data storage although upload speeds are sometimes slow
Pros and Cons
  • "Great for storing all types of data."
  • "The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use of S3 is for storing data. I'm a senior associate. 

What is most valuable?

This solution is valuable in that it helps us store all types of data. It's also easy to delete data when necessary and it's very user-friendly.

What needs improvement?

The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow and it would be helpful if that were improved. The other issue is that downloading data is quite expensive. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used this solution for the past three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We occasionally face stability issues with respect to upload speed but it's very rare. 

How are customer service and support?

The customer support is good but it could be improved. When we raise a ticket, sometimes we have to make a follow-up call because we haven't heard back from them. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I find Amazon to be more efficient and more scalable compared to other solutions on the market. 

What other advice do I have?

I find this solution good for both structured and non-structured data, as well as data access and encryption. It reads more requests per second than other solutions. 

I rate this solution seven out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Daniel Durian - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Manager at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Has good auto-scaling features
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."
  • "I would like to see an easier setup that doesn't require as much training."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case of this solution is for storage.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of the solution is auto-scaling.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see an easier setup that doesn't require as much training.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward as long as you are familiar with the cloud services.

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

The cost varies based on the type of subscription you chose.

Currently, I use the solution for my phishing server and I pay $15 per month.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before choosing the solution I evaluated DigitalOcean.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution nine out of ten.

I suggest if you are interested in using the solution you should also use the other services offered by Amazon such as AWS, and EC2 so you have access to everything in one place.

Auto-scaling is very costly if you don't manage to control it. You need to have good training and understanding of the solution.

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?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Media Operations Manager at MX Player
Real User
Unlimited uploads with secure and instantaneous data movement
Pros and Cons
  • "Uploads are secure and occur instantly."
  • "It is difficult to retrieve files in an emergency because the public cloud has data limits for immediate downloads."

What is our primary use case?

Our company has 30 staff members who use the solution for data storage. 

What is most valuable?

Uploads are secure and occur instantly.

The solution provides good data movement from Snowball to the S3 bucket. 

What needs improvement?

It is difficult to retrieve files in an emergency because the public cloud has data limits for immediate downloads so they often take twelve hours. We need better, immediate control of our content. 

The cloud and on-premises solutions should sync all data. 

Infrastructure services could be improved to provide free education related to the solution's features. For example, developers who do not have experience building games could learn how to do so with free support. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for nine years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable and I rate it an eight out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable and there are no limits on data uploads. We upload four TB of data a day. 

How are customer service and support?

Technical support can be challenging because we have to work through account managers. For urgent situations, our tech team contacts support to get assistance. 

I rate support a four out of ten. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup and creating buckets are very simple. 

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution in-house. 

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

Not many products in the market beat the solution in terms of quality or price. 

The solution charges for data downloads. 

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    We currently use the public cloud but want to use a private cloud because there are speed issues when retrieving files in an emergency. For example, retrieving emergency video files might take twelve hours because the cloud will not allow immediate downloads. A private cloud will allow us to retrieve files immediately without a data limit. 

    We are in talks with GreenLake, Atlassian, and Dell to find the best solution that optimizes our cost. There is a retrieval cost associated with the public cloud so we want to optimize these costs and switch to a private cloud. 

    The solution offers great quality and price. We are closely evaluating the cost of other solutions to determine if it is worth it to move from a solution that works well for us. 

    Cost is a primary concern because we manage three petabits of data. 

    What other advice do I have?

    I rate the solution an eight 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?

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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