Amazon S3 vs. Storj DCS

Who Should You Choose, and Why?

🤔 Strongly consider Amazon S3 over Storj DCS if

• You require extensive access control, life cycle, versioning and tagging features with your cloud storage service.
• You are deeply embedded in the rest of the AWS ecosystem, and need eventing features to trigger Lambda functions.
• You store lots of very small files.

🤔 Strongly consider Storj DCS over Amazon S3 if

• You want much cheaper storage with native replication across dozens upon dozens of regions and no minimum duration for storing files.
• You want a much simpler pricing structure to work with.

📝 Other Notes

• While Storj DCS does not have free egress, it is very cheap and comes with no caveats.
• Generally-speaking, the security benefits (by default) of a decentralized service like Storj DCS can be matched on distributed providers like AWS so long as you’re willing to put in the extra effort or pay potentially a lot more.

• Storj charges a "Per Segment Fee" of $0.0000088 after you've breached the 10,000 Segment per Project free tier. A Segment is any file that is under 64MB, or any 64MB parts of files greater than 64MB.
• While Amazon S3 offers extra-redundancy tiers of storage, data stored on Storj DCS is already geo-redundant within its single tier of storage.

Product Information

Pricing Pages

• Storj DCS Pricing
• Amazon S3 Pricing

Other

• Storj Project (Open Source) GitHub
• Storj DCS - PixelExperience Case Study
• Storj DCS Documentation
• Amazon S3 Documentation
• Amazon S3 Customer Case Studies

Louis-Victor Jadavji (or "LV") is a recognized leader in the cloud services industry. He's helped 50+ digital native companies like ModusBox, Later, and NS1 choose the right cloud stack for their applications. His work has been featured in Forbes (30 Under 30 All-Star), HuffPost, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Inc. Magazine.