1. Perfect solution for geographically separated teams to work on sharing files/media. 2. Mainly suitable for CCTV/video recordings as the network speed and disk throughput is mammoth 3. Suites well for organizations looking for their own private cloud object storage solutions 4. primarily focused on hosting next-generation of applications centric to AI/IOT and ML.
IBM ESS is optimized for AI and Big Data usecases while S3 is a general purpose storage solutions. EMR and Databricks have lakehouse/data warehousing solutions for distributed computing but are more optimized for just the big data pipelining solutions and not essentially for AI usecases, especially for inference, when you need to load model artifacts really quickly.