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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Strategic Cloud Platform Services
4.7
2026

Overview

Product 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.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Pricing

Amazon Simple Storage Service Amazon S3 software uses a pay as you go pricing model based on the amount of data stored, data transfer, number of requests, and storage management features. Pricing is tiered according to storage class and region, with different rates for standard storage, infrequent access, and archival. Additional costs apply for features such as data replication and retrieval, depending on usage patterns and configuration.

Overall experience with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

It Manager
500M - 1B USD, Retail
FAVORABLE

“A solution that provides reliable and scalable storage but limits migration to other platforms.”

5.0
Jul 31, 2026
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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
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2026
For Market:
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Key Insights

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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

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

Updated 23rd December 2024
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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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(782 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
66%
4 Star
33%
3 Star
1%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • It Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    A solution that provides reliable and scalable storage but limits migration to other platforms.

    5.0
    Jul 31, 2026
    By incorporating the Amazon S3 storage solution into the company, we were able to reduce the management of storage infrastructure and also have a reliable, scalable, and flexible storage platform.
    Automated Translation from Spanish
  • It Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    A solution that provides reliable and scalable storage but limits migration to other platforms.

    5.0
    Jul 31, 2026
    By incorporating the Amazon S3 storage solution into the company, we were able to reduce the management of storage infrastructure and also have a reliable, scalable, and flexible storage platform.
    Automated Translation from Spanish
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User Sentiment About Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
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Performance of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Across Market Features

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Likes & Dislikes

Like

Among the main strengths of the Amazon S3 service, I can mention: - One of the most important benefits of having solutions like Amazon S3 is that it allows us to forget about growing storage capacity with physical hardware. - Another strength of Amazon S3 is its deep integration with the AWS ecosystem, which facilitates the construction of analytics platforms, artificial intelligence solutions, and serverless architectures. - An important aspect is the security layer that this solution offers, such as encryption at rest, encryption in transit, versioning, IAM, and object locking, which facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements as well as protecting sensitive company data.

Automated Translation from Spanish
Like

Among the main strengths of the Amazon S3 service, I can mention: - One of the most important benefits of having solutions like Amazon S3 is that it allows us to forget about growing storage capacity with physical hardware. - Another strength of Amazon S3 is its deep integration with the AWS ecosystem, which facilitates the construction of analytics platforms, artificial intelligence solutions, and serverless architectures. - An important aspect is the security layer that this solution offers, such as encryption at rest, encryption in transit, versioning, IAM, and object locking, which facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements as well as protecting sensitive company data.

Automated Translation from Spanish
Like

Among the main strengths of the Amazon S3 service, I can mention: - One of the most important benefits of having solutions like Amazon S3 is that it allows us to forget about growing storage capacity with physical hardware. - Another strength of Amazon S3 is its deep integration with the AWS ecosystem, which facilitates the construction of analytics platforms, artificial intelligence solutions, and serverless architectures. - An important aspect is the security layer that this solution offers, such as encryption at rest, encryption in transit, versioning, IAM, and object locking, which facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements as well as protecting sensitive company data.

Automated Translation from Spanish
Dislike

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.

Dislike

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.

Dislike

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.