We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 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."I've also used Azure's tool, and S3 is far more stable I haven't seen the same issues on AWS that I'm having on Azure. Amazon CloudFront is way faster. The websites are loading way faster than when you do it on Azure CDN."
"The most valuable feature of the product is storage classes."
"Amazon S3 is a stable solution."
"Easy to use, very intuitive, fast, and quite flexible."
"This solution is good at storing historical data and we were using it for other purposes."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are VNet, virtual machines, and Elastic Kubernetes Service."
"The stability is very good."
"CVO gives us the ability to access data as quickly as possible, which is critical because of the mission set we handle. Some things cannot wait. For example, we tried having the data in the cloud itself, but it took too long for us to retrieve it from cold or deep storage. If we have it ONTAP or on-prem, it's so much easier to pull it within minutes."
"With NetApp, you can integrate malware scanning or malware protection. This is something valuable that is not offered in SaaS solutions typically."
"Its scalability is very good."
"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."
"It makes sure we have control of the data and that we know what it's being used for. The main thing for us is that we need to know what applications are consuming it and responsible for it. The solution helps us do that."
"The most valuable features of this solution are SnapShot, FlexClone, and deduplication."
"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."
"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."
"I would like there to be more support without needing to use Transfer Family."
"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."
"The search option must be enabled in the UI to filter and retrieve files."
"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."
"The query size in Amazon S3 has room for improvement because it's limited. Querying on Amazon S3 is also expensive with Amazon Athena, so that's another area for improvement in the solution."
"Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs."
"The UI should be more user-friendly."
"In the next release, I think that it would be good to have wizards that would update into specific applications, for example, a one-touch configuration in Pagemaker."
"The encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement."
"I rate the scalability a five out of ten."
"Scale-up and scale-out could be improved. It would be interesting to have multiple HA pairs on one cluster, for example, or to increase the single instances more, from a performance perspective. It would be good to get more performance out of a single HA pair."
"I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution."
"We have used technical support. As long as they don't call me at four o'clock in the morning to tell me that a drive failed and they are sending me another one, I like it. They have a tendency to do that."
"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."
"The navigation on some of the configuration parameters is a bit cumbersome, making the learning curve on functions somewhat steep."
"Only AWS and Azure public clouds are currently available from China, and I would like to see support for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud)."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 60 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Google Cloud Storage and Zadara, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Portworx Enterprise. See our Amazon S3 vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP report.
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