| Phoenix NAP | Features | Amazon S3 |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud based | ||
| GDPR Compliant | ||
| On premise | ||
| Open source | ||
| Versioned files | ||
| Cross Region Replication | ||
| API | ||
| S3 Compatible API | ||
| Portal | Management interfaces | Portal, CLI, REST api |
| Event hooks/pubsub | ||
| SLA | Best effort. Credits below 99.9%. That is 43 minutes of downtime allowed per month without having to issue credits | |
| Maximum object filesize | 5 TB | |
| Minimum object filesize | A 0 byte file has 8 KB of chargeable overhead for metadata. | |
| Recommended max file count per bucket | unlimited | |
| Max filesize for a bucket | unlimited | |
| Maximum amount of buckets | 500 - upgradable if you need it. | |
| Logs | ||
| Authentication / ACL | Amazon has designed their very own PreSigned URL mechanism which is now used globally across providers | |
| CDN integration | S3 integrates seamlessly into Amazon’s CloudFront CDN, as well as other CDNs | |
| Phoenix announced to take part in Google Cloud’s Interconnect | Peering & interconnect | |
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | ||
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.
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.
