What are the differences between Amazon S3 and Zetta?


Let us understand the concepts of Amazon S3 and Zetta before learning the differences between them.

Amazon S3

It is a database service offered by the Amazon Company as a repository for the internet. It provides quick access to data objects along with their storage along with security, performance reliability and at economical prices. S3 is a Simple Storage Service.

Features

The features of Amazon S3 are as follows −

  • In order to access S3 Storage you need to have an AWS account.

  • It offers a pay per use model where you need to pay for only the storage space which you have actually used.

  • It can be used to store many kinds of data objects like text files, excel csv files along with images and snapshots (backup copies) of the data volumes.

  • You may use it for recovering data quickly and reliably in case of application failures.

Advantages

The advantages of Amazon S3 are as follows −

  • Extensive documentation

  • Offering SDKs for many programming languages

  • Stability and peace of mind

  • Reasonable prices

  • Different storage classes for each necessity

  • High durability

  • Amazon S3 can easily integrate with other AWS products

  • It is going to offer many regions to store your data

  • Allows simple server-side encryption

  • new users can receive 5 GB free storage every month during the first year

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of Amazon S3 are as follows −

  • They require the AWS Support Plan that billed separately

  • Downloading data it’s a bit expensive

  • It requires configuring additional AWS services like IAM

  • It has a complex pricing schema

The different storage classes that Amazon S3 offers are as follows −

  • S3 Standard

  • S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA

  • S3 Glacier

Zetta

Zetta Cloud is one of the high-tech and cutting-edge safety nets which gets broadcasters back on-air, easily, efficiently and quickly helps in natural disasters to viruses. There is a Zetta’s cloud-based Disaster Recovery tool which is used to backup all audio, schedules and metadata.

Zetta Cloud quickly restores all of the original data whenever the station is ready to return its live output.

Features

The features of Zetta are as follows −

  • It has an ability to work with standard file systems.

  • It has features like Multi-threading, WAN optimization, Advanced Data compression, Local backup and restore.

  • It supports Multi-platform like Windows, Linux etc.

Advantages

The advantages of Zetta are as follows −

  • For any level of user Zetta is a simple setup.

  • It is one of the efficient, fast and secure backups to the cloud.

  • For Zetta there should be no appliance required.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of Zetta are as follows −

  • We have to configure Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) prior to use.

  • There is no true bare metal recovery option.

Differences

The major differences between Zetta and Amazon S3 are as follows −

Zetta
Amazon S3
Zetta is owned by Zetta incorporation in the year 2008
Amazon S3 was launched by Amazon in the year 2006.
Zetta does not offer freeware service.
Amazon S3 does not offer free storage space.
Zetta provides LAN Synchronization.
Amazon S3 does not provide LAN Synchronization.
Zetta does not support file versioning.
Amazon S3 supports file versioning.
Zetta provides file synchronization, cloud-based backup services.
Amazon S3 provides file hosting service and cloud storage service.
Zetta is used by small and medium sized organizations.
Amazon S3 used by individuals, small and larger organizations.
Zetta does not provide service for personal data.
Amazon S3 provides storage service for personal data.

Updated on: 21-Mar-2022

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