Amazon S3 vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Public Cloud Storage Services category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.9. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 11.5% mindshare in PCSS, compared to NetApp’s 7.2% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Amazon S3

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Amazon S3 and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP compete in the cloud storage solutions category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand due to its advanced data management capabilities, while Amazon S3 excels in cost-effectiveness and ease of use. User reviews indicate higher overall satisfaction with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

Features: Amazon S3 users value its scalability, integration options, and cost-effectiveness. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is appreciated for features like snapshots, cloning, and tiering. Advanced data management capabilities make NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP stand out compared to Amazon S3's basic storage functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Amazon S3 users highlight the need for improved performance, more comprehensive support, and enhanced security features. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users request more intuitive setup processes, better documentation, and streamlined updates. The complexities in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's setup are more frequently mentioned as an area needing improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon S3 is praised for its straightforward deployment and reliable customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's deployment is perceived as more complex, requiring better initial guidance. Despite this, users find the customer service for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to be responsive and helpful.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon S3 offers an affordable solution with good ROI, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP may have higher setup costs, but users feel the investment is justified by its robust features and functionality. Amazon S3 is considered cost-effective, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides greater value through advanced capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Cloud Backup (10th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 is 11.5%, down from 13.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 7.2%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Vagner Martins

Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Enhanced data security with seamless integration and static website capabilities

S3 is a great service offering numerous possibilities. It allows for storing objects and files of various types. I appreciate its capability to create static websites and integrate with services like CloudFront, EC2, and DynamoDB. Despite being focused on security, I leverage features such as cryptography and integration with CloudTrail.

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Madhusudan Srinivasmurthy

System Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler

NetApp's Integration with AWS has helped us because we had a tough time transferring data when we used an ONTAP competitor as our storage partner. They don't have integration with AWS tools, so we had to figure it out on our own. ONTAP has built-in integration and allows us to replicate a copy to our second data center. Everything is in one channel. It's possible without the technology, but it's more time-consuming. NetApp saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."

"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."

"I rate the technical support from Amazon for S3 a ten out of ten."

"It's very well secured. We have S3 policies that allow you to write custom policies."

"The most valuable features of the Amazon S3 are its ease of use and integration"

"Amazon S3 is a storage bucket service with good stability."

"Amazon S3 is highly stable."

"I don't have any problems with the solution. It's issue-free."

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"The Cloud Manager application that's on the NetApp cloud site is easy to use. You can set up and schedule replications from there, so you don't have to go into the ONTAP system. Another feature we've recently started using is the scheduled power off. We started with one client and have been slowly implementing it with others. We can cut costs by not having the VM run all the time. It's only on when it's doing replication, but it powers off after."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of file storage."

"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."

"The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful."

"The fast recovery time objective with the ability to bring the environment back to production in case something happens."

"Replication to the cloud is the most valuable feature. Deduplication and compression are also very important to us. We are in the process of adopting to the cloud. We are going to AWS and we are trying to do a safety technician call out with integration to the cloud. NetApp allows us to move some of the volume to the cloud, at the same time that we continue providing the cloud services that we have on premises."

"Another feature which gets a lot of attention in our environment is the File Services Solutions in the cloud, because it's a completely, fully-managed service. We don't have to take care of any updates, upgrades, or configurations."

"It's very easy to set up, and within 40 minutes, you can apply storage notes in Azure."

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Cons

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

"Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive."

"They should improve in the area of metadata curation."

"The service could improve by offering mobile backups, which would be great since using Google Backup is costly."

"The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."

"We have used the support from Amazon S3. The support is expensive and could be reduced."

"Enhancements in security features might be beneficial."

"The initial setup was a bit hectic. Uploading data only allows for five GB chunks, creating challenges."

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"Their support and development teams can collaborate better to resolve an issue."

"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."

"I would like to have more management tools. They are difficult to work with, so I would like them to be a bit more user-friendly."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."

"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."

"I would like some more performance matrices to know what it is doing. It has some matrices inherent to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP. But inside Cloud Manager, it would also be nice to see. You can have a little Snapshot, then drill down if you go a little deeper."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's worth the price considering its functionality."

"The licensing model is complex."

"The pricing depends on your region and is reasonable."

"The cost of Amazon S3 is low. For R & D purposes there is a free option available. There is a license needed to use the solution."

"The cost depends on the data we access."

"With S3 Standard, there is not a charge for deletion of objects."

"The pricing can be improved."

"I would rate the pricing a nine out of ten. Pricing depends on a particular class where you want save your objects. There are different classes when it comes to storage in S3."

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"Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have."

"The deal with the seller was acceptable; the pricing is reasonable."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

"Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

"Compared to other storage vendors, NetApp, is not always able to compete with their pricing. Yet, we acknowledge the ease of use ONTAP brings with the AWS integration."

"They have a very good price which keeps our customers happy."

"It is not a cheap solution because we need to pay for the license and pay for Azure resources as well."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

74%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

46%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon S3?

We can easily connect to the AWS resources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon S3?

AWS pricing for Amazon S3 starts at a higher cost, particularly in the standard class. However, with lifecycle management policies, costs can be optimized over time. On a scale from one to ten, I w...

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What needs improvement with Amazon S3?

AWS ( /products/amazon-aws-reviews ) should provide more attractive and comprehensive documentation, especially while integrating Amazon S3 with other AWS services like Elemental MediaConvert. Curr...

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Also Known As

S3, Simple Storage Service

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Amazon Simple Storage Service is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

NetApp

Sample Customers

Netflix, Airbnb, Thomson Reuters, Zillow, Alert Logic

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