Amazon S3 Room for Improvement

Bireshwar Adhikary - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at ATOS

The free web and DB hosting could be improved. It could be faster when you download huge files from the S3 bucket to your local system. If the S3 bucket availability and performance could be improved, we would consider hosting our database over there. 

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Shyam Pavan Kondamadugula - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr full stack java developer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Many customers use this tool. We use it for enterprise application data where we store all cloud-native application production data. You can upload any amount of data and access it from anywhere to deploy the applications. However, the tool needs to improve its performance. Clients can reach more end users if the overall process is faster.

The solution can be a perfect tool if it can add more S3 storage classes and manage the authorized users to one bucket and give access to the storage usage and activity trends.

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Dwight Tuhusula - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Architecture Manager at Accenture

The solution's cost should be improved.

The solution's performance needs to increase for small objects. Amazon S3 is excellent for large projects, but its performance can be comparatively slower for fewer small objects.

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Syed Zakaulla - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Softway

The pricing for Amazon S3 needs improvement.

Another area for improvement is the file size change because it has some limitations that require more time for rendering, especially if you're not merely uploading a file, but reviewing that file, too. It takes some time to receive the file back. In the downloaded format, the file gets compressed.

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KK
Lead Technical Product Owner - AI & ML at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

There are some scalability limitations. 

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ShahRushabh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Infinite Computer Solutions

The UI should be more user-friendly. I rate the UI a five out of ten. The solution must improve its UI.

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AtulSharma2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at Lloyds Banking Group PLC

Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive.

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Sunil Morya - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I would like a batch downloading option added to the AWS console. If we have a bucket in Amazon S3 and for example, we have 50 files that we want to download locally on our system, we need to download them one by one. We can batch-download the files with the command, but from the AWS console, we cannot select all the files and download them into a folder. 

An option to delete multiple files at one time would be a nice feature to be added to the AWS console because we currently have to specify the individual file names. For example, if five files are present, and we want to delete them, then each file name has to be entered separately.

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Darshan Divekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Manager -Information Technology at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Amazon S3 could improve the load balancers. They are very basic compared to other solutions in the industry, such as F5. It has to be able to be analyzed up to a certain level. 

The basic features need some improvement, users should not have to use any third-party solutions, Amazon S3 should provide those particular features. The feature at present does not suffice most of the requirements of an enterprise-class organization.

The security could improve in Amazon S3. I am not seeing any value in the solution in security.

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Ekule Mbeng - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at United Vision

You need to fully understand the solution's best practices to get the most out of its security features. 

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Didar Moldabekov - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at Overonix Technologies

The solution requires you to buy and use Amazon services. 

The solution could be more auto functional. 

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Victor Bergman - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Head of Technology at Imbali Customised Solutions (Pty) Ltd.

You need to do some things to make the files and updates immediately accessible. If you don't know those steps, you will wait forever for your updates to take effect or be seen by the public.

That is the only area where a newcomer might get frustrated with hosting on S3. The files are available immediately when they are first deployed, but it takes some time when they make changes if you don't understand the simple procedure you need to follow for it to happen immediately.

The process needed to show updates immediately is a problem. You have to go somewhere to delete whatever is propagated and restart the propagation somehow. That is the only issue that I think they could fix with hosting on S3 as far as websites are concerned.

I would also like S3 to have the ability to do dynamic websites without the need to do reconfigurations outside of S3. You should be able to switch on dynamic websites in S3, and then it works. I shouldn't need to go elsewhere within Amazon Web Services to get a dynamic website to work.

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Daniel Durian - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at SM Prime Holdings

I would like to see an easier setup that doesn't require as much training.

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AL
Technical Director at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Some of the areas that could be improved are the dashboard, and to have a richer functionality.

Because there are so many services offered by Amazon, they can do anything. If we were to add anything it wouldn't be anything inside of it, but services on top of it. 

There is a concern with security. In one of our main use cases, we prescreen, but we have to create a gateway or layer on top of it to access the data in that particular case. Because the user accesses the data, they to be authenticated before doing so. 

It indicates that the users of our systems need to gain access to this data. Amazon allows access with this mechanism called Presigned URL. 

We need to share files, so we upload the file and request a link from Amazon, which allows you to share with anyone. The link is signed, which is the reason it is called Presigned. However, this sign is not compliant with internet regulations.

In our company, we are concerned with privacy regulations. In the United States, there is a law and regulation that is called HIPPA. It's a regulation on how to keep patients' data private and how to protect it. Amazon S3 is eligible for HIPPA compliance, but not with the Presigned URL.

This is very important and because we cannot use the Presigned URL, we have to build the layer on top of Amazon S3. As a result of having to do this, we lose performance, availability, and we lose some benefits of Amazon S3.

A feature that should be included is to find and provide a HIPPA compliant solution for the Presigned URL.

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Zeev Snir - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Practice Architect at Ness Technologies

Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features.

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Sushrit Moundekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at InfoCepts

No direct connector is available to connect Amazon S3 with other tools like MicroStrategy. So, I have to use a third party and connect to it.

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MiodragMilojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Archirect at Telenor

Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller.

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Souvik Banerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The cost of the solution should be reduced.

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Tanmoy Prasad - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at Unitech Ltd

Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs.

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LP
Senior Database Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Amazon S3 could improve by being more secure.

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VC
Senior architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I would like there to be more support without needing to use Transfer Family. 

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Manasa Jayaramaiah - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow and it would be helpful if that were improved. The other issue is that downloading data is quite expensive. 

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KD
Media Operations Manager at MX Player

It is difficult to retrieve files in an emergency because the public cloud has data limits for immediate downloads so they often take twelve hours. We need better, immediate control of our content. 

The cloud and on-premises solutions should sync all data. 

Infrastructure services could be improved to provide free education related to the solution's features. For example, developers who do not have experience building games could learn how to do so with free support. 

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Harsha Ravnikar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at Sysmex America, Inc.

We would like to see improvement in the ability to moves files within this solution. At present the process is not straightforward, and requires us to download files to our micro service service before then uploading into the solution. In addition, the transfer bit rate for the process is very slow.

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RahulJadhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Hadoop Administrator at Capgemini

The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be. If we want to access data, we should be able to do it quickly. 

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Cuneyt Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer at sonne technology

The solution's pricing should be modified to automatically expand storage based on prior usage. For example, our monthly usage is very low so our storage allotment should be increased by 200%.

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NM
Founding Partner at 2Five1

Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates. 

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KP
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

They should improve in the area of metadata curation. Sometimes we open metadata via open source or ground stations in the area. They should design some features with improved performance where we can gain insights as well. It will help in maintaining the solution considering the cost.

It would be great if they get a new feature with the QV mechanism.

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SA
IT operation manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The Folder Access policy needs improvement. They should make it much more user-friendly, then it will be fine. The major challenge is the inability to create more than ten policies. When we want to create folder access, they provide some policy and then give the folder access. There should be an option to have a sub-folder for each folder. They should provide a distribution of access. Presently, we can't access all subfolders at a time.

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VamsiMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at HUBER

Amazon S3 could improve by providing some type of storage notification.

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Murat Gultekin - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Consultant - Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Maybe it could be a bit cheaper. There are many people using it or willing to use it, and the data size is increasing. It is reasonable at the beginning, however, then it is starting to get a bit expensive as the data size is increasing incredibly. It is getting more expensive.

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Muhmad Tabrez A Deewanji - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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VinayKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Seven Lakes Enterprises, Inc.

File versioning could be improved and I'd like to see some additional security features.

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Abhishek Arya - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect (Cloud, IoT & Data) at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added.

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Joaquin Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO - Founder / Principal Data Scientist / Principal AI Architect at Kanayma LLC

I would like to see the API for beginners improved because it is hard to understand. It is based on the idea of a container when most programmers just understand directories and subdirectories. For a beginner, the API is a bit confusing.

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VM
Solutions Architect at AfroCentric Health

There could be more flexibility in configuration to allow more ways to connect to outside the PPC.

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KA
Principal Technical Lead at Tieto Sweden AB

You do need to get training on the setup process. It's not straightforward. 

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VG
Co-Founder at Multitechservers

The only pain point is migrating the life cycle policy because if someone is a newbie, they cannot easily create the life cycle policy. This is because there are multiple, additional ways. If I want to store data for one month, they have the option to Glacier over it. With Glacier, you have addition policies for one year or four years. The option will not be there. So you would need to use a UI process over it.

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MZ
VP of Data at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The solution's data transfer speed could be improved.

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GW
Team member

We are already utilizing cloud services, and Amazon is providing us with an abundance of options. As we move forward, we must ensure that we are obtaining the best value for our money when it comes to pricing. The price of Amazon S3 has room for improvement.

The current solution is not ideal, as it requires us to log into multiple dashboards and technical services. To improve our centralized monitoring or central idea, we need to create a single centralized system that can provide access to all services.

The stability of the solution has room for improvement.

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KN
General Manager at Yokogawa

My company is in several regions with some offices in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Sometimes we have to concentrate networks to a certain location, like the EU, for example. Therefore, if we set S3 in the EU region from the Middle East or Africa, the latency is an issue and we find it hard to connect to that S3. If we could have a much faster connection, it would be better.

While the price is pretty cheap, it could always be less costly.

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EO
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data

Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored.

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AC
Associate Member Of Technical Staff at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Amazon S3 could improve some of the features, such as indexing, or we should have more information about all the data stored in a single place. This way we can see what data resides where instead of going in different buckets, file locations manually, or searching. An index would be nice, allowing us to directly go to a location to use the date.

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JB
CEO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The pricing and licensing are pretty complex. It needs to be simplified. 

They have no development environment. That means that even during the development time, we are paying.

The initial setup can be a bit complex.

It would be helpful if there were more templates available. 

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JL
Account Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution needs to improve test recognition. We need bots to test that are better. It's just not as good as Google, for example.

My main issue is security. If a code is entered incorrectly, it could leave you vulnerable to attack. 

I'd like to see more connections between EC2 and S3.

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NB
Software Architect at AIOPS group

It could maybe use more integration. 

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NA
System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We need the mapping to Windows. That feature is needed in S3. That feature is in the Azure cloud where we can map it like a drive. We can map the cloud storage to the effort driving our Windows PC. But Amazon is not providing that feature for the S3 solution.

In the next release I would like to see mapping on the Windows machine. In Windows, there are drives right in volumes. We need to map these Amazon S3 storage to the Windows. That usually is available in the Azure. I would like to have that in the Amazon as well.

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Moses NYOTA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software and Cloud Engineer at Velocis Technologies LLC

Regarding S3, S2, and E2, all I'd recommend is for pricing to be lower since we can easily overuse them. For example, if a certain resource is left unchecked, you can easily use a lot of it and drive up costs.

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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage. 

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HM
Manager, IT Infrastructure and Data Center at Asian Paints

Overall, I don't think there's anything that needs to be improved.

The console could be improved - it's not very user-friendly for non-technical guys and the cost has to improve. It does not give us a clear picture of the total cost.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate it an 8.

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SA
Bussiness Data Enigineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's difficult to say because I've only been working with it for six months.

The installation could be more straightforward for inexperienced users.

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RS
Service Deliery Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

We would like some improvement in the cost of storage via this solution, as it currently has a very high price point.

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SA
CEO at ITSAGILITY DMCC

Whatever enhancement they could include in terms of object storage and limitations, would be an improvement. There is a five terabyte limitation size, and in today's world with the data size doubling all the time, anything extra would be helpful. We really need a very, very huge file system, a big data system to accommodate all this content. 

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DR
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution could improve by having a simpler way to have the detail size of a file in the CLI to be read or understood easier. Today, it's a little raw in the way the details are presented. You have to make some scripts and some modifications to be able to see the information properly of the size of a given bucket or the size of a file.

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it_user811170 - PeerSpot reviewer
OS, Network and Storage Firmware Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It is a great product now. Maybe they need to expand their range of physical locations.

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AnkurGupta7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Evon Technologies Pvt

Amazon S3 could improve by having more frequent updates.

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OM
IT-Services Manager & Solution Architect at Stratis

I don't really have any pain points with this product. There isn't really anything to complain about. It does what we need it to do.

Technical support could have a faster response time. They are a bit slow right now.

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HB
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

When we need to find the queries there is no user interface, it is the only textual format that is bulky. If we need some data we will use Athena for queries and we will get results. When comparing this solution to others, such as DataDog, they provide a wonderful UI, and user-friendly dashboards, and many other features that this solution is lacking.

We have found that the query takes too much time to process and it is quite difficult to receive the data.

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PC
Business Analytics at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would like to see translations or description context for the options. 

It is difficult for me as a consultant to explain the science, or the configuration processes, or why I am using this much power or the size to the customer. It takes some effort to describe how you got to that sizing.

We have some problems with connectivity. In my country, most of the issues we have are with stable connections rather than stable platforms.

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. It would mean that you don't need to activate S3, and then have to do a configuration on the page. You would want a single wizard that would do all of the necessary applications.

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it_user1027599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The security model can be improved as it is a bit confusing.

The access speed could be faster.

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it_user572622 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Architect & Developer (contract) at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

The web interface was frustrating when dealing with large numbers of files. We ended up using an interface client (via FTP, I think) which also had its own issues.

How do you make it easy to manage 50K documents in one folder using a web interface? I guess some more advanced filtering and selecting capabilities would have been nice, but it was in the early days. It would only read about 120 files into the cache. If you wanted to remove 1000 out of 2000 documents, you had to continually repeat your actions.

This happened surprisingly regularly when you have a live data transfer that ships 100 files per cycle and does 20 cycles per hour. It could eventually delete them itself, but we didn’t have time to engineer that piece.

Amazon’s approach was to delete the old files after a certain number of days. That is money in the bank for them right there.

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Buyer's Guide
Amazon S3
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Amazon S3. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.