Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Reviews
Star rating
Rank in Object Storage Solutions
Pros and cons
Pros
- Scalability
- Security
- Features
- Cloud Storage
- Reliability
- Ease of Use
Cons
- Pricing Issues
- Learning Difficulty
- Complexity
- Complex Features
- Expensive
- Poor Documentation
Traffic & LLM citations
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Key stats
Adoption by company size
| Segment | Share of reviews |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 28.3% |
| Mid-Market | 32.1% |
| Enterprise | 39.6% |
Quarterly history
| Quarter | Reviews | Star rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 5 | 4.8 |
| 2025 Q1 | 1 | 4.5 |
| 2025 Q2 | 3 | 4.8 |
| 2025 Q3 | 4 | 4.8 |
| 2025 Q4 | 4 | 4.8 |
| 2026 Q1 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 2026 Q2 | 5 | 4.8 |
Satisfaction ratings
What reviewers say
Effortless, Scalable Data Storage with Buckets and Partitions
“I use Amazon Simple Storage services professionally as part of our data engineering and ETL workflow. We store both raw and processed data in S3, and then use it with AWS Glue, EMR, and Athena. Our ETL jobs generate Parquet and CSV outputs, which are stored in S3 for downstream c”
Versatile Data Lake Storage for Logs, Backups, ETL, and Archival
“I use it for data lake storage, including storing logs, backups, and reports. It also works well for hosting files and static assets, supporting ETL pipeline input/output storage, and handling archival needs and disaster recovery.”
Effortless, Reliable Storage That Lets Us Focus on Building Features
“we can store and retrieve any amount of data without worrying about infrastructure, and it just works reliably.It saves a lot of time on storage management and lets me focus more on building features rather than handling infrastructure.I use s3 on daily basis for upload , get dat”