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Amazon S3 compared to Phoenix NAP

Amazon S3
Versus
Phoenix NAP

Features

Storage Features of Amazon S3 compared to Phoenix NAP
Amazon S3FeaturesPhoenix NAP
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, CLI, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal
Event hooks/pubsub
Best effort. Credits below 99.9%. That is 43 minutes of downtime allowed per month without having to issue creditsSLA
5 TBMaximum object filesize
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 bucket
500 - upgradable if you need it.Maximum amount of buckets
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 integration
Peering & interconnectPhoenix announced to take part in Google Cloud’s Interconnect
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.

Phoenix NAP

Being a traditional hosting company, Phoenix NAP has always been working to offer the latest and greatest in cloud services and the hosting space.

Their fully S3-compatible storage solution offer, combined with their bare-metal and on-premise cloud solutions, are a fine choice for anyone not willing to give in to the “giants”, like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

PhoenixNAP has valuable partnerships with large tech companies, such as Cisco, Intel, and VMware.

Comparisons