🆚 Amazon S3 vs. Google Cloud Storage

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Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage

Type

Cloud storage service
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.

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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 storage
First 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
Requests
PUT, 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

Categories

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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

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
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12
#13
#15
#18
#23
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Rank
#23
#54
#57
#88
#98
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See also

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