"The most valuable features are unlimited storage, scalability, and performance."
"The initial setup is not difficult or overly complex. It's very straightforward and easy to implement."
"Enables content sharing by multiple users."
"This solution is good at storing historical data and we were using it for other purposes."
"Amazon S3 has multiple types of data detection. You can store data on a monthly basis, yearly basis, and long term basis."
"The main aspect we like is that it's been easy to use."
"Some of the most valuable features are how convenient and easy to use S3 is. It's nicely integrated with AWS and is available on the AWS console."
"It is easy to manage and easy to understand."
"It's a stable enough solution."
"The solution operates in the background and it is attached to my Gmail account. When I download files to my phone, such as pictures, they automatically go to Google Cloud Storage."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is the filter option. You can search with some artificial intelligence kinds of features. For example, if I search for a beach, it'll show me all the beach-related pictures, which I took five or ten years before. So this is a cool feature that I've seen. They give as many features as they can to make it better, so I'm happy with this solution."
"The solution is easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features of the solution is its ease of use."
"It's user-friendly. We find it to be very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the ease and accessibility of information."
"Technical support could have a faster response time."
"The security model can be improved as it is a bit confusing."
"The only pain point is migrating the life cycle policy because if someone is a newbie, they cannot easily create the life cycle policy."
"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."
"The pricing and licensing are pretty complex."
"It could maybe use more integration."
"They could always increase object storage ability."
"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."
"This solution could be improved by increasing integration with other tools, like Microsoft."
"Google Cloud Storage could be improved by increasing the drive capacity."
"The solution could improve by adding an automatic removal of duplications feature."
"Its security should be better from the data security point of view. It should be more secure, and it should get tightly integrated with products such as Google Docs and Google Sheets. Microsoft covers different kinds of tools such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel."
"There are inefficiencies with cache when the names are sequencing."
"The solution should improve its security and accountability."
"Google Cloud Storage could be improved if they provided more free storage for free accounts."
"They need more enhancements in the security features."
Amazon S3 is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 8 reviews while Google Cloud Storage is ranked 3rd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 24 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 9.0, while Google Cloud Storage is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Secure, scalable, and easy to manage and understand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage writes "Easy to use and scalable with excellent technical support". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Zadara, whereas Google Cloud Storage is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Microsoft Azure File Storage, Huawei FusionStorage and AT&T Cloud Storage. See our Amazon S3 vs. Google Cloud Storage report.
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