🆚 Amazon S3 vs. Google Cloud Storage

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Amazon S3 is five times more popular than Google Cloud Storage.
🌎 Amazon S3 is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Google Cloud Storage is more popular in Angola and Botswana.

Amazon S3

Google Cloud Storage

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.

Google Cloud Storage is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/s3/

cloud.google.com/storage

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 tier ✔️5 GB of Standard storage + 5,000 write and 50,000 read operations + 100 GB transfer from North America/month

Standard storage$0.020-$0.026/GB/month

Nearline storage$0.010-$0.015/GB/month

Cold storage$0.004-$0.007/GB/month

Archive storage$0.0012-$0.0024/GB/month

Operations on Standard storage (per 1,000)Read$0.0050
Write$0.0004

Data transfer (per month)First 1 TB$0.12+/GB
1–10 TB$0.11+/GB
10+ TB$0.08+/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon S3 cloud storage service is 5 times more popular than Google Cloud Storage.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon S3 is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Google Cloud Storage is more popular in Angola and Botswana.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Netherlands

Germany

Brazil

Australia

India

Canada

France

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon S3 is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Google Cloud Storage is more commonly used on real estate sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Sports

Internet Services

Fashion/Beauty

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Travel