🆚 Amazon S3 vs. Ceph

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📈 Amazon S3 is much more popular than Ceph.
🌍 Amazon S3 is more popular in all countries.

Amazon S3

Ceph

Type

Cloud storage service

About

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

It supports multiple storage classes, including Standard, Infrequent Access, and Glacier tiers, strong read-after-write consistency, automatic encryption, fine-grained access controls, versioning, cross-region replication, and storage class analysis.

Due to its widespread use, the Amazon S3 API has become the de facto standard for cloud storage compatibility.

Ceph is an open-source distributed storage platform that links multiple servers into a single, scalable storage cluster for object, block, and file storage.

It features a scalable architecture, leverages RADOS capabilities including snapshotting, replication, and strong consistency, and supports S3 and Swift-compatible object APIs.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/s3/

ceph.io #136,739

Pricing

Free tier ✔️5GB of Standard storage + 20,000 GET requests + 2,000 PUT requests + 100GB of data transfer out/month

Standard storageFirst 50 TB/month$0.023/GB
Next 450 TB/month$0.022/GB
Over 500 TB/month$0.021 per GB

Infrequent Access Tier/month$0.0125/GB

Archive Instant Access Tier/month$0.004/GB

RequestsPUT, COPY, POST, LIST (per 1,000)$0.005
GET, SELECT (per 1,000)$0.0004

Data transfer In (per month)Free

Data transfer Out (per month)Free version ✔️100 GB for all AWS services
First 10 TB$0.09/GB
Next 40 TB$0.085/GB
Next 100 TB$0.07/GB
> 150 TB$0.05/GB

Free ✔️Open source