Name: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Rating: 4.7 (798 reviews)

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Service Information on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is software designed to provide scalable object storage for various types of data including backup, archiving, application data, and content distribution. The software enables users to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web with a secure and durable infrastructure. Amazon S3 supports features such as lifecycle management, versioning, cross-region replication, and access control policies, allowing organizations to manage data efficiently and comply with regulatory requirements. The software addresses business challenges related to data durability, scalability, and secure access, facilitating easier data management and integration with analytics, machine learning, and other cloud-native applications.

Overall experience with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

50M - 250M USD, Retail

FAVORABLE

“Consistent Security Features Enhance S3 Yet Accidental Public Bucket Risks Remain”

5.0

Dec 2, 2025

S3 has been a great tool across my ~7 years of experience. It's helped store plenty of objects, artifacts, and security logs.

Associate Product Engineer - QA

50M - 250M USD, Healthcare and Biotech

CRITICAL

“Easy to use for parsing the files related document.”

3.0

Feb 27, 2019

The experience is quite horrible, if we make some minor mistake then we have to pay big.But after familiar with this software, it makes so easy to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. In my organization i can easily parse the file document from web.

About Company

Company Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2006

Head office location

Seattle, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://aws.amazon.com

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The standout features are probably the consistent work that is put into what appears to be a relatively 'basic' product. From a security perspective, the different storage classes, compliance features, and growth of secure defaults have all made my life much easier.

It is easy to use when you understand it. By using this software I can easily parse the files within 1 minute. just I have to copy the document and paste it wherever I want.

Usability - very easy to use Maturity has all the features needed Extensibility - we can do a ton with it

I still think it's a bit too easy to accidentally make a bucket public in some development use cases. Perhaps a quick snapshot of all public buckets in a tab would be useful!

Without knowing this software, it is really hard to understand what is happening in this. It's look like complex to understand. Risk is more. If error is there we can easily identify it but we have to do all steps back.

It's more about AWS than S3, but the region selection is super boring. If you have multiple regions, there's a lot of places to look.

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Peer Discussions

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Data Scientist

Can someone please share any insights of how they have implemented data masking and obfuscation of sensitive data before the data lands in cloud storage such as s3 or Redshift? I have tried glue databrew but the solution does not scale for large number of files coming into the bucket concurrently.

Data Manager

For auditability and troubleshooting, we brought the file to S3 landing bucket in raw form and then applied the data tokenization for sensitive columns. Next activity is to delete the raw data immediately after use or retain for couple of days to support future troubleshooting. Also ensure that except service account, no one can read the raw file.

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Information Security Manager

Is presigned URLs to access S3 secure?

IT Manager

Once you create the URL and the URL leaves your control anyone who gets access to the URL could potentially use the URL. You can set a time limit for the URL to limit how long it can be used, but that is not much of a control. I don't really consider it much better than using basic authentication(user ID/password) Working with presigned URLs - Amazon Simple Storage Service

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Reviews and Ratings

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50M-1B USD

Retail

Review Source

Consistent Security Features Enhance S3 Yet Accidental Public Bucket Risks Remain

CEO

<50M USD

Software

S3 Offers Easy Usability and Mature Features for Object Storage Needs

Dec 1, 2025

Using S3 is such a great experience. It streamlines your workflow regarding object storage, and it plays super well for both internal and external applications.

MANAGING PARTNER

Healthcare and Biotech

Manual Setup and New Pricing Tiers Affect Overall Cost-Effectiveness Experience

The ability to store that they have at this cost effective of a rate was crucial to our business

ENGINEER

10B+ USD

Travel and Hospitality

IAM Managed Access Effective but Edge Node Features Remain Limited

4.0

our setup makes sense with buckets and prefixes i access from an edge node and really wish i could tab complete

Engineer

1B-10B USD

Energy and Utilities

Permission Optimization Difficult for Shared Environments Due to Policy Restrictions

Dec 4, 2025

We use Amazon S3 buckets as a landing zone for bringing data and from there we perform read write activities through ETL services, Datawarehouse etc.

Overview

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Overall experience with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

“Consistent Security Features Enhance S3 Yet Accidental Public Bucket Risks Remain”

“Easy to use for parsing the files related document.”

About Company

Company Description

Company Details

Key Insights

A Snapshot of What Matters - Based on Validated User Reviews

Reviewer Insights for: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Performance of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Across Market Features

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Likes & Dislikes

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1. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

2. Cloud Storage

3. Amazon S3 Glacier

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Reviews and Ratings

Recommended Gartner Insights

About Company

Company Description

Company Details

Reviewer Insights for: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Performance of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Across Market Features

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Likes & Dislikes

Top Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Alternatives

1. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

2. Cloud Storage

3. Amazon S3 Glacier

Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Recommended Gartner Insights

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Reviews and Ratings

Consistent Security Features Enhance S3 Yet Accidental Public Bucket Risks Remain

S3 Offers Easy Usability and Mature Features for Object Storage Needs

Manual Setup and New Pricing Tiers Affect Overall Cost-Effectiveness Experience

IAM Managed Access Effective but Edge Node Features Remain Limited

Permission Optimization Difficult for Shared Environments Due to Policy Restrictions

4.7

(798 Ratings)

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