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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    AWS Fargate

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows the user to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate there is no need to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

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    Amazon S3AWS Fargate
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Fargate Spot per GB
    $0.00138679
    *per hour
    per GB
    $0.004445
    *per hour
    Fargate Spot per vCPU
    $0.01262932
    *per hour
    per vCPU
    $0.04048
    *per hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3AWS Fargate
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details*based on US East rates. Price varies region to region.
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    Amazon S3AWS Fargate
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    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Amazon S3AWS Fargate
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and AWS Fargate
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    8% above category average
    AWS Fargate
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots9.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and AWS Fargate
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    7% above category average
    AWS Fargate
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics8.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities9.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and AWS Fargate
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    AWS Fargate
    8.9
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    Amazon S3AWS Fargate
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    Score9.7 out of 10
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3AWS Fargate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (74 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3AWS Fargate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Amazon AWS
    If you need to deploy Docker containers, Amazon Fargate is a very good fit. It integrates very well with other AWS services like RDS, EFS, and Secrets manager. You can have a very robust application using those services. In case you have many containers to deploy, it is however more expensive
    that if you use other services like ECS or EKS, since they allow you to
    share the same infrastructure to deploy multiple containers.
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    Pros
    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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    Amazon AWS
    • scalability
    • ease of use
    • agility to up or downsize
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    Cons
    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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    Amazon AWS
    • can't think of any
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Usability
    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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    Amazon AWS
    It's a very practical service to use. If you need to deploy any application with a Database, disk storage, you're pretty much set.
    Everything around that can be taken care of using other AWS services. Like secrets manager, certificate manager, RDS ...
    And the CI/CD part is also very easy to setup, you only need on AWS CLI command to trigger a deployment, and done !
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    Support Rating
    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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    Amazon AWS
    AWS provides different support tiers. They are usually very reactive and are able to help solve the issues very quickly.
    As for everything, the higher the support tier you get, the better and faster support you get.
    If you're also a part of big company, you probably have solution architects at your disposal to help you with any inqueries.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Amazon AWS
    We found the extra cost saved us frustration and time and ultimately money in the long run
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    Pricing and billing of AWS Fargate is loosely tied to your exisiting AWS billing. You're unlikely to only use Fargate in your AWS subscription, so you get billed for everything alltoghter.
    Fargate is naturally a bit more expensive that usuel docker services, but with careful planning and architecturing, you can have a very manageable cost.
    You can also rely on Saving plans to reduce your bill.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Amazon AWS
    • easier to optimize our computer costs
    • transition from server to serverless was easier once we decided to adopt Fargate
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