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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) vs. DigitalOcean

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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

338 Reviews and Ratings

DigitalOcean

129 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon S3

    Score8.8 out of 10
    		N/AAmazon 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

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.9 out of 10
    		N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    Pricing
    Amazon S3DigitalOcean
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3DigitalOcean
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon S3DigitalOcean
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Fabricio Zubelli
    DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Kea (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
    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
    Joshua Dickson
    Head of Engineering in Engineering at Jock MKT (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
    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
    DigitalOcean
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon S3DigitalOcean
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots9.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics8.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities9.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    DigitalOcean
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.228 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings7.021 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings10.027 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings10.032 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings7.531 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.331 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon S3DigitalOcean
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (74 ratings)
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)