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Amazon S3 vs Google Cloud Storage vs Minio: What are the differences?
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1. **Data Consistency**: Amazon S3 offers eventual consistency model, which means that changes made to objects may not be immediately visible. On the other hand, Google Cloud Storage and Minio provide strong consistency, ensuring that all reads reflect the latest write.
2. **Pricing**: Amazon S3 has more complicated pricing models with various factors affecting the cost, including storage class, request rates, and data transfer. In contrast, Google Cloud Storage offers simplified and predictable pricing, making it easier for users to estimate costs. Minio, being open-source, eliminates any costs associated with storage, access, and data transfer.
3. **API Compatibility**: Amazon S3 has a proprietary API that is widely supported and used by many applications. Google Cloud Storage also supports the same API, making it easy for users to migrate between the two services. Minio, being compatible with the S3 API, allows for seamless integration with applications built for Amazon S3.
4. **Object Versioning**: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage support object versioning, allowing users to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored. Minio also supports object versioning, providing users with the ability to track changes to their data over time.
5. **Data Transfer Acceleration**: Amazon S3 offers a feature called Transfer Acceleration that uses Amazon CloudFront's globally distributed edge locations to accelerate file transfers. Google Cloud Storage provides a similar feature called Cloud Storage Transfer Service, which simplifies transferring large amounts of data to Google Cloud Storage. Minio, although lacking a built-in data transfer acceleration feature, can easily integrate with third-party solutions for faster data transfers.
6. **Client Libraries and SDKs**: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage offer a wide range of client libraries and SDKs in various programming languages, making it easy for developers to interact with the services. Minio also provides client libraries and SDKs, ensuring compatibility with popular programming languages and frameworks for seamless integration.
In Summary, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Minio differ in terms of data consistency, pricing, API compatibility, object versioning, data transfer acceleration, and client library availability.
Hello! I have a mobile app with nearly 100k MAU, and I want to add a cloud file storage service to my app.
My app will allow users to store their image, video, and audio files and retrieve them to their device when necessary.
I have already decided to use PHP & Laravel as my backend, and I use Contabo VPS. Now, I need an object storage service for my app, and my options are:
Amazon S3 : It sounds to me like the best option but the most expensive. Closest to my users (MENA Region) for other services, I will have to go to Europe. Not sure how important this is?
DigitalOcean Spaces : Seems like my best option for price/service, but I am still not sure
Wasabi: the best price (6 USD/MONTH/TB) and free bandwidth, but I am not sure if it fits my needs as I want to allow my users to preview audio and video files. They don't recommend their service for streaming videos.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage: Good price but not sure about them.
There is also the self-hosted s3 compatible option, but I am not sure about that.
Any thoughts will be helpful. Also, if you think I should post in a different sub, please tell me.
If pricing is the issue i'd suggest you use digital ocean, but if its not use amazon was digital oceans API is s3 compatible
Hello Mohammad, I am using : Cloudways >> AWS >> Bahrain for last 2 years. This is best I consider out of my 10 year research on Laravel hosting.
Minio is a free and open source object storage system. It can be self-hosted and is S3 compatible. During the early stage it would save cost and allow us to move to a different object storage when we scale up. It is also fast and easy to set up. This is very useful during development since it can be run on localhost.
We choose Backblaze B2 because it makes more sense for storing static assets.
We admire Backblaze's customer service & transparency, plus, we trust them to maintain fair business practices - including not raising prices in the future.
Lower storage costs means we can keep more data for longer, and lower bandwidth means cache misses don't cost a ton.
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
- Reliable590
- Scalable492
- Cheap456
- Simple & easy329
- Many sdks83
- Logical30
- Easy Setup13
- REST API11
- 1000+ POPs11
- Secure6
- Plug and play4
- Easy4
- Web UI for uploading files3
- Faster on response2
- Flexible2
- GDPR ready2
- Easy to use1
- Plug-gable1
- Easy integration with CloudFront1
Pros of Google Cloud Storage
- Scalable28
- Cheap19
- Reliable14
- Easy9
- Chealp3
- More praticlal and easy1
Pros of Minio
- Store and Serve Resumes & Job Description PDF, Backups10
- S3 Compatible8
- Simple4
- Open Source4
- Encryption and Tamper-Proof3
- Lambda Compute3
- Private Cloud Storage2
- Pluggable Storage Backend2
- Scalable2
- Data Protection2
- Highly Available2
- Performance1
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Cons of Amazon S3
- Permissions take some time to get right7
- Requires a credit card6
- Takes time/work to organize buckets & folders properly6
- Complex to set up3
Cons of Google Cloud Storage
Cons of Minio
- Deletion of huge buckets is not possible3
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