Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) vs. Datto SIRIS

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Datto SIRIS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon S3	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.	N/A
Datto SIRIS	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	Datto SIRIS is a BCDR solution built for MSPs to prevent data loss and minimize downtime. Utilizing a cloud-first approach, MSPs can offer their clients local backup and recovery with a cloud-based repository and full disaster recovery in the cloud. All of this administered from a multi-tenant cloud portal that allows MSPs to view, manage and recover client data from a single interface.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Datto SIRIS

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Amazon S3	Datto SIRIS
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Datto sells 100% through the channel. Specifically, Datto partners with managed service providers (MSPs). The MSPs then sell direct to small and mid-sized businesses, worldwide.

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Community Pulse
	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)	Datto SIRIS
Considered Both Products	Amazon S3 Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 S3 is excellent but has a different use case than ebs. As ebs can be used as a filesystem, s3 bucket stores objects Incentivized Helpful? Rafael Grandizoli Gerente de Operações Chose Amazon S3 Due to the best integration between other AWS services my company already used, S3 was the logic choice. Incentivized Helpful? Nir Levy VP R&D DevOps and Products Chose Amazon S3 We opted for Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) solution as most of our workloads run on AWS and this saves as bandwidth costs. Otherwise the solutions are similar in capabilities for our needs. Incentivized Helpful? FZ Fabricio Zubelli DevOps Engineer Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 integrates way better with other AWS services and tools, making it the quick choice for your AWS based application. Furthermore, the pricing for Amazon S3 is very competitive and it has all the security and access capabilities to enable your application. Google … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 Pricing and Cost Structure are best:Amazon S3:Offers multiple storage classes: Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-IA (Infrequent Access), One Zone-IA, Glacier, and Glacier Deep Archive while other were costly and figuring out the monthly costs were difficult. The … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Weisel Chief Technology Officer Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 has so much other functionality than it's competitors with so many more use cases. We use One Drive, Drop Box, Teams, Google Drive and other products for basic file sharing while working with partners and clients but that's kind of the extent of those products. S3 … Incentivized Helpful? MC Mike Carruthers IT Director Chose Amazon S3 More robust and feature rich. Also more cost effective. However, the other options do lend themselves to be better at user friendliness. But if your technological and willing to look up help in the support knowledgebase you will do just fine and get a better product at … Incentivized Helpful? Pankaj Choudhary Freelancer Android Developer Chose Amazon S3 When we were implementation the solution of our issue then we find Azure and Google Cloud Storage platforms but we were unable to find the proper documentation for the platform as compared to S3, So we moved to S3 and discarded the other options. Cost wise there are only some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the only AWS offering for object storage. DynamoDB is fantastic for unstructured data but does not handle object storage. The relational database service (RDS) is excellent but only applies to use cases with structured table data, and does … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 Linode and Google Cloud Storage Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 All other alternatives are also good but as our infrastructure was on AWS, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) was a better choice due to its better integration with other AWS services. It was serving the purpose in an economical way. All of our needs were being fulfilled by … Incentivized Helpful? MA Mohamed Atnane Administrative Coordinator Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is the business driving arrangement by Amazon Web Services. It has answers for all startup's and huge venture. The expense viability is one reason that I have chosen the Amazon S3 over other Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 We are an AWS shop, thus it is much easier to use with other AWS services. It may not always be the cheapest but once you are in AWS if you can decouple your apps and use this as one of your services it will certainly make developer's life easier and admin life easier. Incentivized Helpful? AC Andre Correa Founder Chose Amazon S3 Better price and easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 S3 is the most mature simple storage service on the web. It has direct competitors from Google and Azure, as well as a bunch of other competitors that focus on different aspects. For example, Backblaze specializes on file backups, and while s3 can also be used for that, … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Head of Engineering Chose Amazon S3 We had already decided to use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for other compute services, so it made sense to use Amazon for blob storage as well. By using the same cloud vendor, we can more easily integrate between AWS services like Cloudfront. Blob storage is essentially a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 provides a variety of tools for uploading short and large objects to the cloud. AWS S3 is a key-value store, one of the major categories of NoSQL databases used for accumulating voluminous, mutating, unstructured, or semistructured data. S3 object retrieval is fast. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 They're both great. I really don't know the differences, but both have the same basic set of features, in my opinion. But, S3 is widely know as a greater tool, safer, and much easier. Also, it's used by and compatible with a lot of applications around the world. That made us … Incentivized Helpful? AL Anatoly Lubarsky Founder and lead developer Chose Amazon S3 I think [Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)] is cheaper than Azure Blob Storage (at least at the time I selected it). It is a low maintenance product and it is more reliable. Incentivized Helpful? Grant Shellborn Chief Technology Officer Chose Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure Active Directory Incentivized Helpful? James Hilton Director Of Engineering Chose Amazon S3 The main differences are that S3 files can be accessed publicly without having an account on the service so it is suitable for website assets, but the other services have desktop hard drive syncing applications so they are more suitable for sharing files to other staff in the … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose Amazon S3 Google Cloud Storage provides many of the same features as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), but they differ quite a bit in the database integrations they provide. The main reason we had to use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is because our main infrastructure cloud … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Nowowiejski Sr. Instructional Designer Chose Amazon S3 AWS probably has the most difficult UI to learn but it's the far better service. Google is probably second but it has storage limitations and there are some security concerns (still a good tool for collaboration) The Microsoft products are the worst IMO. They're slow and have the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 Most of our customers are on AWS so it's easy for us to integrate it with AWS S3 and we could deliver our projects on or before the expected time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is more cost-effective then what Microsoft Azure offers. Incentivized Helpful?	Datto SIRIS Joseph Rapoport M.A., DCDS, DCAT, DCP-SaaS, DCP-DCMA Sr Systems Engineer Chose Datto SIRIS In my experience with Veeam, you have to supply your own storage while the Datto appliance is a self-contained solution. Incentivized Helpful? Jon Daley Owner Chose Datto SIRIS Datto seemed to be better than other vendors I trialed, and I inherited an Alto device, so it was easy to stay with them. I also assumed the backups had been working with the previous contractor, but it turns out they had been failing for months and no one knew it. Incentivized Helpful? JS Jonathan Sheldon Director Chose Datto SIRIS Datto SIRIS BCDR is the gold standard, the product that other on-premises backups strive to be. It is reliable, fast, saves company money and time. Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Beal Senior Office Administrator Chose Datto SIRIS We have not used or tested anything similar to Datto. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Friedli Level 2 Support Analyst Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is not as feature-rich as Veeam, but it still offers the main features in a great backups solution that will help in a recovery situation. It is mainly meant for smaller businesses, so it's not a Veeam replacement. From that perspective, Datto fills a great void in … Incentivized Helpful? BN Ben Nichols System Administrator Chose Datto SIRIS We've chosen to go with Datto RMM after finding other platforms that didn't quite meet the requirements of growing endpoint management. Incentivized Helpful? Karl Fulljames COO Chose Datto SIRIS ShadowProtect quality has decreased over the years and their price has increased. Datto is far superior in terms of UI, datacentre capabilities as well as confirmation of backup successes. Veeam offers these same features in a more complicated format but also lets you roll your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is far and away the best backup vendor we have ever used. The product works extremely well, and is very easy to implement and manage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is an all-inclusive solution with minor set-up. It's almost turnkey. Veeam requires more knowledge and setup, plus additional storage, although it is more robust and more granular. Datto includes the cloud element built-in, whereas it is something extra with Veeam. For a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto and Barracuda Backup are very similar in design/purpose (both appliance-based with local backups and pushing to an offsite cloud), though Barracuda handles vCenter with a centralized backup console while Datto does not. VEEAM does a better job of backing up VMware than … Incentivized Helpful? Dale Bradford Network Administrator Chose Datto SIRIS We did the reverse, and we looked at this solution to replace Datto.. we regret going with Datto. As a result, we are moving all clients from their platform to Axcient's Replibit BDR solution. We have had such good luck, the backups are faster, and the restoration/export of … Incentivized Helpful? Jorge Vasconcelos Network Admin Chose Datto SIRIS Datto was our solution of choice. Incentivized Helpful? MH Mike Hernandez Operations Manager Chose Datto SIRIS The solution we used prior to Datto was only a cloud, and provided no onsite solution for data recovery. It provided no failover protection against a server meltdown and retrieving files that were either accidentally lost or corrupted could take 24 hours. With Datto, it's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is a legacy product, selected before I got involved in the backup design at the current organization. As there are no issues with it, no alternatives were considered. I used Bakula before and would recommend it or Amanda for an organization looking to save money, as these … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Compared to Solarwinds or EMC Avamar, Datto is more improved, and it's much better at business continuity. Both tools are only cloud-based backup services, but Datto has the option of the local backups as well, which is more efficient for disaster scenarios. Datto has many more … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Weller IT Operations Manager Chose Datto SIRIS These may have carved out a niche in one area or another that make them superior for that specific case, but no one does a better overall job. I would estimate that a Datto box will be the right fit for at least 85% of the SMB's in the US. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Rojas IT Manager Chose Datto SIRIS Very affordable. I used another service known as Naverisk and dropped them as they were more expensive and the service was not as good. Datto is designed for IT consultants so teams are getting a well-designed platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Shadow Protect being the closest on this list, none of the other stack up against what Datto can provide in terms of technology and being able to quickly recover from a disaster or data loss. What brings Datto above the competition is their level of customer support from their … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Farling Managing Partner Chose Datto SIRIS Datto beats Replibit hands down, but the software isn't the biggest differentiator. Support at Datto is FANTASTIC. eFolder hardly provides anything you can call support. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Hutchinson, CISSP IT Director Chose Datto SIRIS The customer to whom I am consulting selected Datto for reasons unbeknownst to me. Had I been involved earlier in the decision process, I would likely have recommended Unitrends, Zerto or another solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS Datto seems much more reliable with better backup success rates. It is easy to use and cost-effective way to backup small data sets. Support is quite good and they have a very good Kbase. Incentivized Helpful? Stana Steen Owner Chose Datto SIRIS The product we tired in the past are either out of business or that product line failed. We have used custom BDR solution purchased from a vendor and found that while it worked you were never sure if the restore would work. We did not want to cobble together a solutions and the … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager Chose Datto SIRIS Datto is a superior product in regards to spinning up servers on the BDR appliance hardware. That is their killer feature. Barracuda's edge is the hardware refresh after 4 years of maintaining subscriptions. Datto requires the purchase of a new appliance after a time period … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datto SIRIS We also use Barracuda for our backup and disaster recovery solution at our clients. Datto is much more expensive than Barracuda, the solutions are very similar, but the one thing I would give Datto the edge on is handling of Hyper-V instances. Datto makes Hyper-V restorations … Incentivized Helpful? Franz Josef Bautista Technical Consultant Chose Datto SIRIS Vembu is easier to set up in on premise and lower hardware requirements Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Datto SIRIS

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 9.0 Ratings 8% above category average	Datto SIRIS 8.0 Ratings 2% below category average
Universal recovery	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Instant recovery	7.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Recovery verification	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business application protection	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	9.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Snapshots	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Flexible deployment	9.20 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Management dashboard	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform support	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Retention options	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Encryption	9.80 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Enterprise Backup

Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 8.8 Ratings 7% above category average	Datto SIRIS - Ratings
Continuous data protection	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Replication	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Malware protection	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)	Datto SIRIS
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User Ratings
	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)	Datto SIRIS
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.6 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.8 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)	Datto SIRIS
Likelihood to Recommend	For archiving old data that is infrequently accessed it is perfect. You can choose to let it go into cold/glacier storage which saves even further costs but at the expense of accessibility. I like that you can set access rules to automatically move it to the next storage tier after a certain amount of time that it has not been accessed. I also use it a lot with PHP via the API. We have some custom in-house applications that have a fair amount of data uploaded into them. S3 has been a perfect solution to store these files, taking the load off web servers and never having issues with running out of storage. Incentivized Sam Othman IT Systems & Telephony Administrator Read full review	Datto works well for smaller shops that just need something that will work without needing a great deal of day to day work on it. I only login to the device periodically to see where we stand on space and occasionally when we need to restore something. The offsite datacenter backup which is hosted by Datto works well for us particularly as we do not have our own offsite tech to use. In larger departments other solutions will possibly win out based on required features and setups but for the 1-10 man IT departments the Datto solutions fit in well. Incentivized Matthew Fex IT Systems Administrator Read full review
Pros	Reliable and secure way to store objects in cloud: Storing any type of file(text, pdf, doc, csv, etc) is very easy with S3. Fetching this stored content as and when you require is also pretty easy and can be done using both the console and AWS CLI. Appropriate permissions can be set up for buckets using IAM roles/policies. Versioning in buckets: S3 gives you a very handy feature to store multiple versions of objects stored in a bucket. Lifecycle policies: You can set up lifecycle policies in S3 that can move your older objects to IA or Glacier. This setup is very easy and can be done within minutes for a bucket. Replication: The cross-region replication that S3 provides is wonderful. Beware of the inter-regional data transfer costs though. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Backups: Datto does what it's supposed to do, backing up data from servers (and workstations, if need be), and then syncing that data to the cloud. Initial setup: Initial setup is pretty straightforward, in most cases the agent installs remotely from the device. UI: The UI is fairly straightforward and intuitive, at least for IT professionals. It is not difficult to find things or figure out what settings do what. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	The biggest problem is to rename the bucket. There is no direct way to do it. One need to copy entire content to the different bucket with intended bucket name and then remove the old bucket. Sometimes it creates issues. There is no direct way to upload .zip file and extract it to inside the bucket. While uploading large files, sometimes you will find a drop of upload speed. I observe it so many times and while checking my internet speed, I find it absolutely perfect. So there must have something wrong on the AWS side. Incentivized Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect Read full review	VMware integration for backups is only at the host level, not vCenter, so you can't see all VMs from one place to select them for backup. You've gotta add each host individually and then pick from the list that populates from each individually. The system is appliance-based, so when you run out of local space on the appliance, there's no expansion without buying a larger appliance. You either cut back on your backups to use less space, or you open your wallet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Due to princing, availability and scalability. Incentivized Rafael Grandizoli Gerente de Operações Read full review	I trust the product and service and am satisfied with the direction of the company Incentivized Franz Josef Bautista Technical Consultant Read full review
Usability	The UI could have some improvements (better filters) and there is a lack of some useful functionality, such as renaming an existing bucket: the latter is much needed in the context of rapidly evolving companies. Overall though, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is easy to use and to onboard people and tools to, thanks to its various APIs and flexibility. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Usability is great. The web interface is simple and easy to use. While various options are available for client backups, it is very easy to re-use settings of the existing client, so adding new clients is a very fast process. Configuration of the agent on the client-side cannot be easier as well. Datto dashboard provides an overview of the client status, and email notifications can be configured for various events. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	It depends on your tier within Amazon on how great of support you get. For us we have a dedicated Point of Contact that is great in taking in what we need and discussing it with the S3 team. The best thing is features we need or suggest have a good chance of landing on their roadmap. Incentivized Adam Lauer Senior Software Engineer Read full review	My specific example or reason for this rating goes back to a need for support after a client on this platform has a fire. In a nutshell, Datto had no idea how to BMR the image back to the server correctly, and as a result, the RAID on the server was lost, due to the Datto BDR environment not being able to see the RAID card, and the support technician knowing how to inject drivers. Incentivized Dale Bradford Network Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	S3 is the most mature simple storage service on the web. It has direct competitors from Google and Azure, as well as a bunch of other competitors that focus on different aspects. For example, Backblaze specializes on file backups, and while s3 can also be used for that, Backblaze provides a better price point in exchange for more focused functionality. S3 really shines in that it performs simple things astonishingly well, while also being flexible enough to stretch itself to other situations (data lakes, file mounts, backup/restores systems, web hosting, etc.). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Datto is not as feature-rich as Veeam, but it still offers the main features in a great backups solution that will help in a recovery situation. It is mainly meant for smaller businesses, so it's not a Veeam replacement. From that perspective, Datto fills a great void in options for these clients. It doesn't have the features of Unitrends either, but I have not had great experiences with Unitrends, so I would not recommend that option. Veeam is great for larger environments, and Datto is a fantastic option for the next tier down in size. Incentivized Adam Friedli Level 2 Support Analyst Read full review
Return on Investment	Allows us to store large amounts of raw traffic from data providers to allow us to view data our systems received at particular times, in order to reconstruct inputs in case of errors Is capable of storing very large amounts of data cheaply without material impact to our business Incentivized Joshua Dickson Head of Engineering Read full review	In most cases, Datto will provide the appliance free of charge with a 3-5 year contract which results in a modest monthly fee instead of a large initial outlay and monthly fees. The contract's warranty is top-notch. Failed drives or issues with the appliances are replaced/corrected with free replacements and shipping. Incentivized Joseph Rapoport M.A., DCDS, DCAT, DCP-SaaS, DCP-DCMA Sr Systems Engineer Read full review
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