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Amazon S3 vs Openstack Swift: What are the differences?
Amazon S3: Store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web; Openstack Swift: A distributed object storage system designed to scale from a single machine to thousands of servers. It is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. Organizations can use Swift to store lots of data efficiently.
Amazon S3 and Openstack Swift belong to "Cloud Storage" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon S3 are:
- Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 terabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited.
- Each object is stored in a bucket and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key.
- A bucket can be stored in one of several Regions. You can choose a Region to optimize for latency, minimize costs, or address regulatory requirements. Amazon S3 is currently available in the US Standard, US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), South America (Sao Paulo), and GovCloud (US) Regions. The US Standard Region automatically routes requests to facilities in Northern Virginia or the Pacific Northwest using network maps.
On the other hand, Openstack Swift provides the following key features:
- Distributed
- consistent
- Object/blob store
We offer our customer HIPAA compliant storage. After analyzing the market, we decided to go with Google Storage. The Nodejs API is ok, still not ES6 and can be very confusing to use. For each new customer, we created a different bucket so they can have individual data and not have to worry about data loss. After 1000+ customers we started seeing many problems with the creation of new buckets, with saving or retrieving a new file. Many false positive: the Promise returned ok, but in reality, it failed.
That's why we switched to S3 that just works.
Pros of Amazon S3
- Reliable591
- Scalable492
- Cheap456
- Simple & easy328
- Many sdks83
- Logical29
- Easy Setup12
- 1000+ POPs11
- REST API10
- Secure5
- Easy3
- Web UI for uploading files2
- Plug and play2
- GDPR ready1
- Flexible1
- Faster on response1
- Plug-gable1
- Easy to use1
- Easy integration with CloudFront1
Pros of Openstack Swift
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Cons of Amazon S3
- Permissions take some time to get right7
- Takes time/work to organize buckets & folders properly6
- Requires a credit card5
- Complex to set up3
Cons of Openstack Swift
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