Amazon FSx vs. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon FSx
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Amazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.N/A
Amazon S3
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
8.0
Ratings
5% below category average
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
-
Ratings
Versioning8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
File search8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
Ratings
14% above category average
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
-
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User and role management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
File organization10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Device management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
Ratings
16% above category average
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
-
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Performance10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
-
Ratings
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
9.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
-
Ratings
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
8.8
Ratings
7% above category average
Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon FSxAmazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
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9.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
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User Testimonials
Amazon FSxAmazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Likelihood to Recommend
Since I started working with this platform have been performing effectively. It is compatible with our operating systems and the speed of data transfer is very reliable. The server integrates data from all our sources and enhances better planning and effective decision-making. Collaboration of our teams from remote areas is enhanced through updates on the progress of project implementation.
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For archiving old data that is infrequently accessed it is perfect. You can choose to let it go into cold/glacier storage which saves even further costs but at the expense of accessibility. I like that you can set access rules to automatically move it to the next storage tier after a certain amount of time that it has not been accessed. I also use it a lot with PHP via the API. We have some custom in-house applications that have a fair amount of data uploaded into them. S3 has been a perfect solution to store these files, taking the load off web servers and never having issues with running out of storage.
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Pros
  • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
  • Multiprotocol access
  • PV for EKS
  • Data mobility
  • Data security
  • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
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  • Reliable and secure way to store objects in cloud: Storing any type of file(text, pdf, doc, csv, etc) is very easy with S3. Fetching this stored content as and when you require is also pretty easy and can be done using both the console and AWS CLI. Appropriate permissions can be set up for buckets using IAM roles/policies.
  • Versioning in buckets: S3 gives you a very handy feature to store multiple versions of objects stored in a bucket.
  • Lifecycle policies: You can set up lifecycle policies in S3 that can move your older objects to IA or Glacier. This setup is very easy and can be done within minutes for a bucket.
  • Replication: The cross-region replication that S3 provides is wonderful. Beware of the inter-regional data transfer costs though.
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Cons
  • Data Protection from AWS console
  • Advance Matrix
  • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
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  • The biggest problem is to rename the bucket. There is no direct way to do it. One need to copy entire content to the different bucket with intended bucket name and then remove the old bucket. Sometimes it creates issues.
  • There is no direct way to upload .zip file and extract it to inside the bucket.
  • While uploading large files, sometimes you will find a drop of upload speed. I observe it so many times and while checking my internet speed, I find it absolutely perfect. So there must have something wrong on the AWS side.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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Usability
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The UI could have some improvements (better filters) and there is a lack of some useful functionality, such as renaming an existing bucket: the latter is much needed in the context of rapidly evolving companies. Overall though, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is easy to use and to onboard people and tools to, thanks to its various APIs and flexibility.
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Support Rating
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It depends on your tier within Amazon on how great of support you get. For us we have a dedicated Point of Contact that is great in taking in what we need and discussing it with the S3 team. The best thing is features we need or suggest have a good chance of landing on their roadmap.
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Alternatives Considered
The beauty here is that I basically had to mark 3 different services to get some of the benefits of just a single service. It brings the best of these 3 solutions with a ton of added capabilities around data management and how to consolidate the usage of many silos into a single place which makes it much easier to manage it, especially for the bigger enterprises.
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S3 is the most mature simple storage service on the web. It has direct competitors from Google and Azure, as well as a bunch of other competitors that focus on different aspects. For example, Backblaze specializes on file backups, and while s3 can also be used for that, Backblaze provides a better price point in exchange for more focused functionality. S3 really shines in that it performs simple things astonishingly well, while also being flexible enough to stretch itself to other situations (data lakes, file mounts, backup/restores systems, web hosting, etc.).
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Return on Investment
  • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
  • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
  • It removed needed expertise from our engineers
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  • Allows us to store large amounts of raw traffic from data providers to allow us to view data our systems received at particular times, in order to reconstruct inputs in case of errors
  • Is capable of storing very large amounts of data cheaply without material impact to our business
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