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Amazon S3 compared to Google Cloud Storage

Amazon S3
Versus
Google Cloud Storage

Features

Storage Features of Amazon S3 compared to Google Cloud Storage
Amazon S3FeaturesGoogle Cloud Storage
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, CLI, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, CLI, REST api
Event hooks/pubsubYes, but only in combination with Google Firebase
Best effort. Credits below 99.9%. That is 43 minutes of downtime allowed per month without having to issue creditsSLACredits below 99.95%. That is 21 minutes of monthly downtime allowed without ability to claim credits
5 TBMaximum object filesize5 TB
A 0 byte file has 8 KB of chargeable overhead for metadata.Minimum object filesize
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucket
unlimitedMax filesize for a bucket5 TB
500 - upgradable if you need it.Maximum amount of bucketsunlimited
Logs
Amazon has designed their very own PreSigned URL mechanism which is now used globally across providersAuthentication / ACL
S3 integrates seamlessly into Amazon’s CloudFront CDN, as well as other CDNsCDN integrationYes, google’s storage solution ties into multiple CDNs and it’s covered by google’s own caching layer
Peering & interconnectLeveraging Google’s Peering connections for fast delivery of content
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

Amazon S3

World’s biggest Cloud Storage Provider. Amazon, traditionally an online book store, has put a target on the cloud compute space when it shifted its focus to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. E-Commerce competition was tough, but public cloud companies back then were scarce, and usability and user friendly products were a long way from being invented.

Amazon’s reign on cloud computing has left its mark in public cloud-land. Competitors have trouble keeping up, if they even get to a point of feature-parity at all. With Amazon’s S3 storage being one of the first, it has basically dictated a standard for the public cloud’s blob storage protocol.

Needless to say, Amazon invented the S3 (Simple Storage Service) standard.

Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has proven itself time over time. They host anything, from very small startups to large enterprise clients, like Nintendo’s Pokemon GO, or basically any NFT marketplace.

Google Cloud Storage was first to introduce Interconnect.

Google Cloud Storage Interconnect facilitates cheap egress costs, from the storage to your CDN supplier. Which means that, when you put a CDN in front of your google cloud object storage, the egress traffic (from google to the CDN) will either be cheap or even free. Essentially, since you’re paying for the bandwidth on the CDN side as well, saving you money on needless costs.

Comparisons