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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) vs. Google Drive

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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

338 Reviews and Ratings

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6,625 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

    Google Drive

    Score8.8 out of 10
    		N/AGoogle Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document editing and presentation.

    $6

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon S3Google Drive
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $6.00
    per month
    Business
    $12.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact Vendor for Quote
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3Google Drive
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounts are available for students, educators, and non profit organizations.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Amazon S3Google Drive
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Michael Weisel
    Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Gold Lasso, Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
    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
    Anudeep P
    Software Developer in Information Technology at Monsanto Company (Farming, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Amazon S3
    I haven't been personally involved in the decision to use S3, but in comparison to Dropbox or Google Drive, this offers a less robust UI to modify things, while being a cheaper storage mechanism over the rest.
    Incentivized
    Mike Carruthers
    IT Director in Information Technology at First Baptist Church of Milford (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
    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
    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
    Andre Correa
    Founder in Corporate at Malware Patrol (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Amazon S3
    Better price and easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    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
    James Hilton
    Director Of Engineering in Engineering at LabRoots (Publishing, 11-50 employees)
    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
    Mark Nowowiejski
    Sr. Instructional Designer in Information Technology at Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (Education Management, 10,001+ employees)
    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
    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
    Jonathan Kempf, UXC
    Lead Frontend Engineer in Engineering at Maisonette (Apparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Amazon S3
    Whether you want to use AWS or not is generally the reason why you would want to use S3. Its feature set and price point are comparable to others (B2/ Drive), but you get the access to AWS. If I had all the time in the world, I would go the B2 route, but the integrations are …
    Incentivized
    Mark Richards
    Chief Systems Architect / Analyst in Professional Services at TEAM International (Information Services, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Amazon S3
    [Amazon s3 has a] Simpler interface.
    Incentivized
    Ivan Miller
    Business Intelligence Engineer in Engineering at Experticity (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Amazon S3
    S3 is sort of the de-facto standard for cloud-based storage right now, so it's hard to have a great basis of comparison. Google's drive and cloud offerings are fairly similar in functionality, although I would say the AWS management console is a lot easier to interact with than …
    Incentivized
    Google
    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
    No answers on this topic
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    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
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    Features
    Amazon S3Google Drive
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Google Drive
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    Google Drive
    -
    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 Google Drive
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    Google Drive
    -
    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
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Google Drive
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    Google Drive
    7.7
    209 Ratings
    Versioning00 Ratings8.2184 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings7.5178 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings7.9172 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings8.4206 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.2204 Ratings
    File search00 Ratings5.9208 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings7.7194 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Google Drive
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    Google Drive
    8.1
    203 Ratings
    User and role management00 Ratings8.2191 Ratings
    File organization00 Ratings7.4202 Ratings
    Device management00 Ratings8.799 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Google Drive
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    -
    Ratings
    Google Drive
    8.3
    202 Ratings
    Performance00 Ratings8.1200 Ratings
    Reliability00 Ratings8.2202 Ratings
    Storage Reports00 Ratings8.587 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon S3Google Drive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (74 ratings)
    8.3
    (210 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.0
    (48 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)