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Amazon FSx vs. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon FSx

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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
    Amazon FSxAmazon S3
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon FSxAmazon S3
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
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    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    Features
    Amazon FSxAmazon S3
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Amazon FSx and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File search8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Amazon FSx and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    User and role management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File organization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Amazon FSx and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    Performance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reliability10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon FSx and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.48 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings8.18 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings8.78 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon FSx and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.48 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.27 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.48 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon FSxAmazon S3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon FSxAmazon S3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    - For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
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    Amazon AWS
    Amazon S3 is a great service to safely backup your data where redundancy is guaranteed and the cost is fair. We use Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by Amazon S3. Transferring data into Amazon S3 is free but transferring data out has an associated, albeit low, cost per GB. This needs to be kept in mind if you plan on transferring out a lot of data frequently. There may be other cost effective options although Amazon S3 prices are really low per GB. Transferring 150TB would cost approximately $50 per month.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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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    Amazon AWS
    • Fantastic developer API, including AWS command line and library utilities.
    • Strong integration with the AWS ecosystem, especially with regards to access permissions.
    • It's astoundingly stable- you can trust it'll stay online and available for anywhere in the world.
    • Its static website hosting feature is a hidden gem-- it provides perhaps the cheapest, most stable, most high-performing static web hosting available in PaaS.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Data Protection from AWS console
    • Advance Matrix
    • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
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    Amazon AWS
    • Web console can be very confusing and challenging to use, especially for new users
    • Bucket policies are very flexible, but the composability of the security rules can be very confusing to get right, often leading to security rules in use on buckets other than what you believe they are
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
    It is tricky to get it all set up correctly with policies and getting the IAM settings right. There is also a lot of lifecycle config you can do in terms of moving data to cold/glacier storage. It is also not to be confused with being a OneDrive or SharePoint replacement, they each have their own place in our environment, and S3 is used more by the IT team and accessed by our PHP applications. It is not necessarily used by an average everyday user for storing their pictures or documents, etc.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    AWS has always been quick to resolve any support ticket raised. S3 is no exception. We have only ever used it once to get a clarification regarding the costs involved when data is transferred between S3 and other AWS services or the public internet. We got a response from AWS support team within a day.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production.
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    Amazon AWS
    Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • 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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    Amazon AWS
    • It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
    • The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
    • If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.
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