We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Block Storage 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."Cloud infrastructure is the most valuable feature."
"The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."
"The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the global availability, resiliency, and ease of access control."
"It's good for starting up because you only pay for what you use."
"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."
"Amazon S3 is a storage bucket service with good stability."
"The solution's peak-up time is good."
"It's easy to deploy, easy to scale up, and pay-as-you-go."
"The most helpful features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage are the many use cases. Additionally, it can be locked down well and has two-factor authentication."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage is an easy-to-use tool as it has a lot of APIs and libraries, making it a very easy product to get started with for a user."
"We use Microsoft Azure Block Storage to store, upload and download data. We can also use it as a backup."
"This is a very robust and flexible solution."
"The product is very easy to use."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage has the same features as other solutions, but I like that its implementation process is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease with which you connect and use it."
"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."
"If a certain resource is left unchecked, you can easily use a lot of it and drive up costs."
"The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."
"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."
"An encryption mechanism and storage optimization could be added."
"It is difficult to retrieve files in an emergency because the public cloud has data limits for immediate downloads."
"I would like a batch downloading option added to the AWS console."
"Amazon S3 could improve by being more secure."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage's stability needs improvement."
"There have been problems with integration, but it's getting better."
"There are some space limitations."
"The stability of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is good but could improve."
"The scalability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve by having integration with Amazon AWS. The file transfer could be easier."
"We cannot properly check the daily cost in the Azure portal."
"The security is poor, and the sharing model is confusing, conceptually. I'd prefer not to use it. I'd like a user-friendly web interface and a better security model."
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Amazon S3 is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "Straightforward to set up and reliable with good features on offer". 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 Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Wasabi and Azure NetApp Files. See our Amazon S3 vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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