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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide (Transitioning to Strategic Cloud Platform Services)
4.7

Overview

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.

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 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

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) Likes & Dislikes

Like

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.

Like

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.

Like

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

Dislike

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!

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

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

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

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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22 Apr 20251.5k Views4 Comments
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

4.7

(799 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
67%
4 Star
32%
3 Star
1%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Planning & Transition

4.6

Delivery & Execution

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Service Capabilities

4.7

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  • IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    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.
  • CEO
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    S3 Offers Easy Usability and Mature Features for Object Storage Needs

    5.0
    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
    <50M USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

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

    5.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    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
    Review Source

    IAM Managed Access Effective but Edge Node Features Remain Limited

    4.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    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
    Review Source

    Permission Optimization Difficult for Shared Environments Due to Policy Restrictions

    5.0
    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.
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