# Page 6 | Amazon S3 Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 6 - Is Amazon S3 the right Cloud Storage solution for you? Explore 1112 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/174285/Amazon-S3/reviews --- Amazon S3 4.7 (1112) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/174285/Amazon-S3/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 6 - Reviews of Amazon S3 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 126-150 of 1112 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Accounting Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "An Incredible Web" June 24, 2023 5.0 Pros Budget-friendly. As we already discussed, Amazon offers services with a pay-as-you-go pricing structure. Cons Misconfigurations or oversights in S3 buckets allow unauthorized users to access sensitive data. Review Source JM Juan M. Owner E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "For pros only" October 24, 2022 5.0 Good for using in software products, bad for simple day to day storage. Pros It is very inexpensive and reliable. It's an amazon product, you know it'll work as expected. Cons It is almost impossible to know how much you'll pay with AWS pricing system. Using it as an alternative to Google drive or other user-friendly storage solutions is highly discouraged, as it is overly complicated for non-ITs (almost as if they did that on purpose). You don't have support unless you pay for it. Alternatives considered [Dropbox Business](https://www.capterra.com/p/143068/Dropbox-Business/) Reason for choosing Amazon S3 Price Review Source LM Leah M. Artist reveiwer Online Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent app" August 30, 2023 5.0 Excellent app easy to use great customer service Pros How easy it is to use an do stuff with an use period Cons No complaints very easy app to be able to use Review Source Adam K. Video Creation and Lead Generating Ninja Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Industry leader in cloud storage" May 30, 2019 5.0 We use it for secure and reliable video storage and recommend it to all of our clients too. Pros Ideal to store any type of digital files including, but not limited to: \* video \* audio \* images \* documents The buckets are providing an easy to locate option but it all depends on your own creativity. Very reliable and quick. I prefer to keep my video files for clients on Amazon S3 compared to YouTube to avoid ads and recommended videos at the end. Cons No search option available which makes it difficult to locate your files if you do not set a proper structure from the beginning. Technical support is not available with the free subscription. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Architekt rozwiza IT - Departament Rozwoju Infrastruktury Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Swiss army knife of AWS" June 13, 2018 5.0 Really secure, durable and elastic storage solution. Pros It's easy to use, cost efficient (4 different cost models), secure ('11 nines' durability) and flexible. It's a building block of almost all serverless solution that you can dream of. You can store data, manage it retention using automatic lifecycle policy, inventory data (S3 Inventory) and run big data analytics directly on it (AWS Athena). You can even host your static website in Amazon S3. It's easy to integrate with almost all AWS services. Cons You can't run static web hosting using https without some additional services involved like CloudFront or Elastic Load Balancer. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good and affordable storage service" March 25, 2022 5.0 Overall S3 is very good and has a very good connection to all locations if you combine it with CloudFront, another AWS service. Pros Amazon AWS S3 Service is very usefull when it comes to handle a lot of data which you dont want to store on your own server. S3 handles all our images and contract templates. Cons There is no good way to see how much S3 costs. You need to manually calculate how much it will cost you. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Technical Operations Director Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Allowing us to scale our infrastructure to meet our growing storage needs." July 17, 2019 5.0 Pros Amazon S3 has allowed us to increase our storage capacity on demand as our operations and infrastructure have grown exponentially. We can on-board new clients and their content without having to worry about available storage or having to make heavy fixed capital investments. Cons As is with any product, there is an initial slight learning curve and if you are not command line savvy, you depend on the available GUI tools to transfer content in and out of S3 -- some of which can be clunky and not too intuitive. Luckily, there is a good amount of helpful tutorials to help you learn your way around S3. Review Source David C. Freelance Web Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Affordable, encrypted storage" October 9, 2020 5.0 I use this mainly to store website backups - it integrates perfectly with my backup software so everything is automated - once setup you can pretty much forget it knowing that it works perfectly Pros The cost..! This has got to be one of the most affordable big branded storage systems out there - yes there are cheaper alternatives but i'd rather use a name I know and trust - it costs me pennies per month to store my back up data. Cons Amazon S3 can be tricky to setup up initially - you have to create the account - select location and setup storage buckets - easy once you know what you are doing but I imagine it could be daunting for a newbie. Review Source Eric P. IT Manager Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Fast and reliable cloud storage " January 20, 2019 4.0 We use Amazon S3 for storing large amounts of data and for backup. The price and reliability of Amazon S3 means that there's improved productivity and cost savings. Pros Amazon S3 is easy to use, fast, reliable and very affordable. Another great thing about Amazon S3 is that it can be used to host static websites. This greatly reduces the cost of hosting compared to using a dedicated server. I also like that Amazon S3 is tightly integrated with other Amazon solutions that we use. Cons One issue I've experienced regularly is that it's very slow when reading from Amazon S3. I've also experienced occasional lags in the S3 browser. Review Source Udit G. Product Lead Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Cloud storage service!!" July 12, 2022 5.0 Pros 1\. Ease of setting up. 2. Uniform access to data provided. 3. Compatible with all data formats. 4. Access management is secure and monitored. Cons 1\. Cost is little bit on higher side. 2. A little bit of education is needed. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great object storage that can be used for many purposes" August 16, 2019 4.0 We are using S3 in our projects for multi purposes. We have several APIs that are being served with static website serving feature of S3. Also, all of our project deployment packages are stored in private S3 buckets. S3 is also working well integrated with other AWS products. Pros S3 is a great object storage service that we are using it for storing backups of our applications, serving a static website of our APIs, and all deployment packages. It is very easy to use and easy to configure. You can adjust your buckets to either private or public. Cons User interface of S3 is not good enough. Pricing is high if you are doing so much list/put/delete operations Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The most affordable and reliable cloud storage" December 6, 2019 5.0 We couldn't be more happy with the solution. Knowing that all our data and backups are securely hosted in a reliable infrastructure. The pricing is great too. Pros \- Great pricing structure. Affordable for all. - Provides a level playing field. Whether you are a one man company working out of the basement or a 10,000 employee behemoth , AWS has room for all. - Super reliability. In our years of usage we have never suffered a down time with them. Cons They may want to improve the learning curve from an absolute newbie point of view. Configuring buckets, security may be overwhelming for a person diving into S3 for the first time. Review Source Tara K. Product Marketing Intern Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Amazon S3 Review" August 6, 2018 4.0 With the ease of use and the high availability provided by AWS. It is a no brainer to use AWS S3 as your cloud storage service. I would highly recommend this to all my organizations to adopt. Pros Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a game changer for our storage needs. The price is super cheap and it allows us to scale as we see fit. We do not have to worry about on-site storage solutions anymore and can have a peace of mind that data is stored and secure. Cons There was a steep learning curve to move all our existing data into S3. Also getting the engineering team to switch over was a hassle, but the documentation and services provided by AWS does make this process easier. One caveat to using this is that if you have updates to the files you have stored, you can only overwrite the file. You can’t make in place updates to the files. This does cost a bit of read/write dollars (especially if it is a large file, with small update). Review Source JS Jugraj S. Software Engineer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best Storage Space with very low operational cost and ideal file storage for other AWS services" July 4, 2018 5.0 Pros Amazon S3 as short for simple storage service. It is a secure object storage ideal for keeping files that are used be aws services like Athena, Elastic Map Reduce, etc. We can perform ETL Jobs written HIVE queries on the data stored in Amazon Athena supported formats on S3 directly. Which provide great performance on huge amount of data. Amazon EMR is another service that treat S3 as a type of local storage means cost and time of read-write operations in same region is as low as possible resulting in faster Job execution. S3 is another place where all other services store there logs. Having a negligible cost makes it ideal place to store a huge amount of files logs and other. Cons Amazon S3 is a object storage. We can update a file/object stored in it only way to update a file is to download it make the changes and upload it by deleting the old one in other words overwriting it. Which generate unnecessary read-write network bandwidth when we have to update small change in a large file. Another drawback is its maintaining versions of same file. we can do it but not as easy as other file storage systems. Also i find no way to integrating it with my local system like OneDrive is integrated into windows making hard to transfer file in and out of the system. Review Source Cristian V. Software Developer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Your resilient storage service" December 5, 2019 5.0 We use S3 as our storage backend for assets everywhere. It integrates nicely with Cloudfront, and allows you to restrict access to the files in a per-file basis. Very powerful and flexible tool. Pros Relatively easy to setup, but it requires some familiarity. It is pretty stable, and in the time I have been using it I have seen it going down only once (remember that time that half of the internet went down?). Overall, stability, speed and reliability are just awesome. Cons Permissions. As everything in AWS, the permissions are a tricky beast to tame. However, this is part of the platform and is something you will need to live with. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer iOS Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Better place to upload your pictures and videos" April 12, 2019 4.0 I am using s3 bucket from more than 2 years and it is user friendly or i can say programmer friendly. Pros It will reduce the weight of your server, so api will respond in more faster way. As Images and Videos take more data and if you use s3 bucket side by side your native server will take less load also it is easy to implement as available doc is sufficient for implementation. You can upload, delete or fetch the file from s3 bucket in the easiest way. Code is available for both iOS and android. Cons I generally use to upload images and videos to the bucket and i have not find such a major issue. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Head of Marketing Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Reliable Servers For A Fair Price" October 15, 2021 5.0 Pros Simple Cloud Storage from AWS is super reliable, we had no major issues in over 5 years. The features they offer can be a little bit overwhelming, especially when you are new to AWS. However, on the other site it gives you the chance to really setup everything you can imagine like you want. Cons The written documentations are not always easy to understand. When you want to have individual, technical support you need to buy a monthly support package. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Tech Lead, Strategic Alliances and Business Development Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Still the best cloud object storage service" May 1, 2019 5.0 Very pleased with Amazon S3, excellent service! Pros S3 just works, plan and simple. It's very easy to use with a nice UI and a myriad of clients consuming the s3 API. Bandwidth is usually very fast, of course this depends on your own connectivity. Setting up permissions for files is a matter of configuring IAM. There's an easy button option to make files public and to make them private again. S3 is definitely gold as an artifact repository for hosting as well as data backups. Most software will have an option to backup to s3 so even if you don't have an internet connection, chances are that there is some 3rd party object store which will support s3-APIs. Cons On rare occasions, AWS S3 will experience downtime. This doesn't happen to often but as a cloud SaaS offering, it's a potential risk that needs to be mitigated. S3 also can't be used for air gapped environments unless AWS decides to put out an on-prem version. Review Source Utkarsh S. Leaders in Innovation Fellow Public Policy Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "S3 - Simple, straightforward and superb" May 30, 2019 4.0 My experience with S3 has been really good apart from the bucket deletion and name problem. I would really suggest developers to give s3 a try but keep in mind the configuration. Its easy to expose all files to others. Pros S3 screams simplicity, be it the Web UI or the AWS api/cli usage. Some of the pros include: 1) Support for versioning of files stored 2) Static website hosting 3) A convenient data store for super cheap 4) Good amount of security and encryption options available Cons Deleting and creating buckets with same names takes pretty long time, which means that you have to change the dependent services. I am not really sure why this is the case but this is pretty annoying. Amazon hit a bit of a speedbump with S3 when the bucket sort of leaked files, but I think that was more of misconfiguration on users' end. Over time amazon has started to show the yellow 'public' label which should alert the users. Alternatives considered [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.capterra.com/p/253631/Google-Cloud-Storage/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Developer Printing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great cloud storage with a friendly free tier." October 3, 2019 5.0 Solved my problems perfectly by allowing to offload my servers from hosting data. Pricing is pretty OK when you don't have too much data. Pros There are a lot of libraries outside for various tools that can be used to quickly set up S3 and use it in your needed use case. I use it for my website, and using an SDK it's just a matter of setting up API keys and it works great. Cons You can start to feel the pricing when you have millions of millions of objects. Transferring terabytes of objects from one zone to another can pretty expensive, each operation costs when we're talking in millions. Review Source ZS Zeghoudi S. assistance programing Security and Investigations Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Amazon Simple Storage Service " September 15, 2023 4.0 What an excellent platform for collecting, storing, and analyzing data smoothly, in a safe and distinctive manner Pros What I loved about this platform is the ease of collecting and storing data in a smooth and distinctive way Cons Maybe the size of the encryption for the cloud Review Source SK Shashank K. Software Developer Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Advance hosting provider for videos and visuals" May 15, 2022 5.0 All in all Amazon S3 is the most reliable server infrastructure among its alternatives and due to its scalable structure we can base any web and mobile based application's backend on Amazon S3 without experiencing any problem in our services. Pros Amazon S3 is by far the most reliable and robust server infrastructure to host the visual materials and videos of any web service. With the advance features of Amazon S3, we can launch video and visuals heavy mobile and web applications without experiencing any serious interruption in our client side. Cons Although Amazon S3 works exceptionally in a high performance, I can not state that the support of Amazon Web Services is performing that much perfectly. First of all support teams return time to the email based cases in resolution center is quite slow and we can not get directly support without subscribing to the pro support plan. Review Source Mike M. Founder Broadcast Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very useful storage solution for ecommerce businesses" May 4, 2022 5.0 Pros S3 is the overall best and most cost effective storage solution for our business when it comes to images, videos, downloads, and more. Cons I wish it was easier for a non-technical person to work in the portal. Review Source Rocky K. Course Building Technologist and Business Coach on the Education Team Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cheap Reliable storage in the cloud" August 7, 2019 5.0 Amazon S3 solved our storage needs. Prior, the company was storing everything on their own servers. If the site went down, so did our files. Amazon's reliability is why we use the S3. Pros Amazon S3 is like Dropbox/Google Drive, but on Amazon's cloud server. That means, it's fast with a 99.9% uptime. All of our public-facing course material is secured on Amazon S3, and I don't have to worry about the server being down. Cons There's a learning curve. It's kind of ugly - I'm not expecting someone to use it right out of the box. There's lots of options to choose from, and you could accidentally expose all of your sensitive data if you didn't set it up correctly. Switched from [Dropbox Business](https://www.capterra.com/p/143068/Dropbox-Business/) Dropbox was cleaner, but expensive. S3 is reliable and priced waaaay better. Review Source Kenneth P. Founder Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Real Simple Storage For Real Cheap" April 24, 2020 5.0 We use this to host static assets in tandem with AWS CloudFront—this gives us a cost effective content distribution network that performs relatively well. There's a large market of talent that are familiar with administrating AWS which is an additional benefit. Pros I use S3 to host static assets for web applications. It's fast, cheap, and gets the job done. It's also a great option for storing backup files, databases, media assets, etc. Cons Complexity—it's AWS and there is a learning curve. The UI is decidedly designed for the enterprise and the vast array of options and security controls is astonishing. Review Source Similar Products Featured