We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."An important feature of the Amazon S3's system is that it offers encryption while the files are at rest. This is crucial in ensuring the security of the files being restored and addressing potential security risks. That's what I would emphasize."
"Amazon S3 is very flexible and provides high storage."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the performance and hibernation data options. Additionally, there is a feature that provides faster website access that is helpful."
"Amazon S3 has multiple types of data detection. You can store data on a monthly basis, yearly basis, and long term basis."
"It's very well secured. We have S3 policies that allow you to write custom policies."
"The most valuable feature is the storage."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that I mostly used the tool's free tier version, so I like the fact that its cost is very low."
"The scalability of Amazon S3 is good."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"Maybe it could be a bit cheaper."
"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."
"The solution's data transfer speed could be improved."
"We have used the support from Amazon S3. The support is expensive and could be reduced."
"Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller."
"The pricing and licensing are pretty complex."
"The security model can be improved as it is a bit confusing."
"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 21st in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Google Cloud Storage, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS. See our Amazon S3 vs. IBM SoftLayer report.
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