Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) vs. Google Cloud Storage

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

338 Reviews and Ratings

Google Cloud Storage

241 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon S3	Score8.8 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
Google Cloud Storage	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon S3

Google Cloud Storage

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Pricing Offerings
Amazon S3	Google Cloud Storage
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon S3	Google Cloud Storage
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Pankaj Choudhary Freelancer Android Developer in Engineering at Freelancer (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) 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? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology in Information Technology at Virtusa (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) 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? Bryan McAnulty Product Director in Product Management at Velora Studios (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon S3 Since we use other AWS products, and since AWS and S3 are more familiar to developers, it is easier for us to stick with Amazon S3 over a similar solution like Google Cloud Storage. Incentivized Helpful? Evan Laird Digital Marketing Consultant in Marketing at Webspearmint (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 compared to all of these has the worst user interface. Drive and Dropbox as everyone knows is simpler and used for shared work files with a user-friendly interface. Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3 are both in the same boat for large application files and great for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a … Incentivized Helpful? Craig Nash Sr. Network Engineer in Information Technology at GodAmongGeeks.Com (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon S3 In terms of AWS services, S3 is the best storage solution offered that gives us security and reliability with a wide, even if it is too wide at times, array of services making it a cost effective solution. However, when compared to other large cloud providers, such as Google & … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 in Product Management at MUV (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) 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 in Engineering at Zoomd Technologies (Information Technology Services, 51-200 employees) 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? 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 Helpful? Verified User 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? 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 comes with all other services of AWS, all other services are very quick and secure with S3 storage, which is the best option for any application. Again, compared to other services like Azure or GCP, AWS provides more configuration and functions to host multi nature … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Partner & Senior Engineer in Engineering at Braid, LLC (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon S3 There are alternatives, Google Cloud Storage and Azure storage are the only real rivals, in my opinion, although most hosting vendors have their own flavor of an S3 like utility. However, most of those are actually just sub-vendors of S3. The most compelling case for using … Incentivized Helpful?	Google Verified User Chose Google Cloud Storage Google Cloud Storage feels much more intuitive to use versus Amazon S3. I really prefer Google's Node SDK and web interface, and find Google Cloud Platform's access/identity management much more straightforward. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud Storage The two services are very comparable, but we have many different services that all run on the Google Cloud Platform and therefore Google Cloud Storage made more sense as our storage solution rather than looking to an outside service like S3. Either one of these options would … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Mason Lead Developer in Engineering at SaaSquatch (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Google Cloud Storage Aside from Google Cloud Storage, we've used AWS S3 and have found the two comparable. In fact, GCS is one of a large number of object storage systems that are compatible with S3 (including DigitalOcean Spaces, IBM Cloud Storage, and Azure Blog Storage). When it comes to these … Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA, MSc in Digital Marketing Digital Marketing Manager in Marketing at Paradise Professional Delelopment School (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose Google Cloud Storage If your budget is limited, or if you are just starting your business and you're looking for a cloud storage service, this is a good option which is reliable and cheap. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud Storage We tend to only select Google Cloud Storage when we're using other Google products as it makes integration easier -- but we tend not to choose it for situations where we can use a competing offering from Azure or AWS. We tend to implement the most Azure and AWS by far, and … Incentivized Helpful? Anatoly Geyfman Founder & CEO in Information Technology at Carevoyance (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Cloud Storage We selected GCS vs. others because we decided to use other Google Cloud services. Since we integrated GCS into our tools, we're still using GCS today, even though we've largely transitioned away from Google Compute services. GCS is still a very solid choice, even if your server … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud Storage We ended up with Google Cloud Storage most importantly because we found it far easier to set up, configure, and operate compared to Amazon's offerings. Amazon's many products make it difficult to find just the right one, and from there configuring is overly complicated. In … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Amazon S3

Google Cloud Storage

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Google Cloud Storage
Feature	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 9.0 8 Ratings	Google Cloud Storage - Ratings
Universal recovery	9.07 Ratings	00 Ratings
Instant recovery	7.97 Ratings	00 Ratings
Recovery verification	8.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business application protection	8.65 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	9.47 Ratings	00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	9.33 Ratings	00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	9.48 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	8.73 Ratings	00 Ratings
Snapshots	9.55 Ratings	00 Ratings
Flexible deployment	9.28 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management dashboard	8.18 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform support	8.78 Ratings	00 Ratings
Retention options	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Encryption	9.86 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Google Cloud Storage
Feature	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 8.8 8 Ratings	Google Cloud Storage - Ratings
Continuous data protection	9.48 Ratings	00 Ratings
Replication	9.27 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics	8.48 Ratings	00 Ratings
Malware protection	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities	9.58 Ratings	00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon S3	Google Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (74 ratings)	10.0 (35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	7.6 (12 ratings)	8.0 (12 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (9 ratings)
Support Rating	9.8 (21 ratings)	7.8 (13 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)