Amazon S3 Reviews

Summary: A vital component of the AWS cloud ecosystem, Amazon S3 provides dependable, scalable, and secure object storage. Because of its adaptability, it can be used for a variety of tasks, such as data archiving and hosting static websites.

Positive: It offers a remarkably robust and dependable architecture for storing data. Data is dispersed over several places, and Amazon S3 Standard is a reliable option for crucial data because it guarantees durability for 99.999999999% (11 9s).

Negative: Despite the pay-as-you-go price approach that Amazon S3 offers, the cost structure can be complicated because of things like data transmission, requests, and storage classes. To prevent unforeseen expenses, users should carefully analyze their consumption patterns.

Summary: S3 is the optimal storage drive for any of your application making use of the AWS . It integrates seamlessly with other AWS Services to perform CRUD, event notification and other operations.

Positive: Easy to use.
Multiple Availability Zones (regions).
Encryption policy to ensure data privacy.
Versioning system to keep track of file revisions.
Available in the free tier of AWS.

Negative: There should be a dedicated desktop app to access the S3 storage for basic users.

Summary: AWS S3 is a cloud storage which is more oriented towards business users. It provides high-grade security and flexibility in storage options and pricing.

Positive: AWS S3 is probably the most used service of Amazon Web Services. It is a storage service which is easy to use and offer multiple options. It also offers high availability and privacy features in the form of encryption. There is also an integrated versioning system. There are multiple storage options which also offer different pricing ideal for any use.

Negative: No cons, it is a simple storage service which is a backbone of all AWS services.

Summary: As I am from analytics background data is everything and is to be used on a daily level for various projects S3 always makes things easy to store and retrieve data.

Its support on the windows command prompt makes automation very easy. API integration support is also pretty handy.

For a medium to large scale industry S3 is definitely a very good option to be considered. It compares well both on price and feature set to other comparable static file stores such as Google Drive and Backblaze B2. However, with S3, you get the benefit of being integrated into the AWS ecosystem if needed.

Positive: (+) Compatible with most of the industry tools in the analytics domain.
(+) Easy to set up and access the data with a very interesting speed.
(+) Pricing is on a very friendly side compared to other competitors.
(+) Drag and drop is an excellent feature which is very handy.

Negative: (-) Difficulties in setting up automation systems with multiple accounts or buckets.
(-) No notification feature for automated systems.
(-) UI looks a bit outdated
(-) Searching takes a lot of time which can be reduced.

Summary: AWS S3 is the perfect storage on cloud for most purposes. It is integral within the Amazon Cloud ecosystem and even worth using as a standalone service just for storage.

Positive: Brilliant User interface makes it easier to use.
Drag and Drop feature.
Host static website.
Multiple tiers make it cost effective.
Reliable with great fault tolerance.

Negative: Can prove costly if not monitored and managed properly.
Easy to get started with but has a steep learning curve for advanced features.

Summary: Finally, I can say that AWS S3 is a very good service with which we can store objects and connect those objects to other AWS services and serve them.

Positive: We can store objects on cloud using Amazon Simple Storage Service.
It comes with Amazon Web Services and is highly available, scalable.
The objects stored on it can be accessed from anywhere.

Negative: I've used it using the free tier version of AWS and got not issues with it.