We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."The most valuable features of the Amazon S3 are its ease of use and integration"
"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."
"The versioning of this solution for accidental deletion has been most valuable."
"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."
"S3 is well suited for both big and little data repositories of objects ranging from backup to archive to active video images and much more."
"It's reliable and stable."
"The most valuable feature is the sharing capabilities."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"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."
"Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive."
"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."
"They should improve in the area of metadata curation."
"The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."
"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 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."
"Amazon S3 could improve by having more frequent updates."
"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."
"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 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd 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.
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