Complimentary Report Provides Organizations with Guidance
on the Best AWS S3 Alternatives to Choose from Today
OMAHA, Neb., (June 10th, 2025) – DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its 55th TOP 5 report, the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternatives – Enterprise Edition Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides enterprises with guidance on the best AWS S3 alternatives for them to choose from today. The report is available for download at no charge with registration.
Amazon Web Service’s 2006 launch of its Simple Storage Service (S3) fundamentally changed how enterprises could access and consume storage. Enterprises no longer had to obtain, deploy, manage, and maintain storage on-premises to support their internal IT requirements. Rather, enterprise applications and developers could use the Amazon S3 application programming interface (API) to access storage over the Internet.
Designed and initially released to make web-scale computing easier for developers, many new applications and use cases have emerged. For many enterprises, these other use cases represent the primary ways they use the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Amazon S3 APIs.
However, as enterprises utilized AWS S3 to meet these various use cases, some found AWS S3 did not meet some of their specific requirements. For instance, some enterprises need or want:
- Higher levels of performance.
- More affordable cloud storage.
- More robust options to move data to and from remote or edge sites.
- Specific application integrations.
- To avoid paying API usage, egress, and other fees that AWS charges.
- To place their data in specific geographic regions where AWS may not have a data center.
Still other enterprises may compete with Amazon in the marketplace and may not want to store their data in AWS. These and other factors have led to AWS S3 alternatives entering the cloud object storage marketplace.
DCIG evaluated 24 different AWS S3 alternatives for this Enterprise edition. Across these 24 AWS S3 alternatives, DCIG evaluated over 250 features on each one. The general categories under which the 250+ evaluated features of these AWS S3 alternatives feel included:
- Acquisition
- Cyber Resilience
- Data Protection
- Deployment
- Management
Other Cloud Services- Storage Tiers
- Technical Service and Support
- Use Cases
Other Cloud ServicesBased on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following AWS S3 Alternatives a DCIG TOP 5 ranking (in alphabetical order):
- Google Cloud Storage
- IBM Cloud Object Storage
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
- Seagate Lyve Cloud
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
The full DCIG TOP 5 report is available for download immediate. The full report contains additional details such as:
- A list of the 24 AWS S3 alternatives evaluated for this report.
- The state of AWS S3 alternatives.
- Features common across all evaluated AWS S3 alternatives.
- Distinguishing features of the DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternatives.
- Differences between the DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternatives.
- A profile of each DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternative that lists at least three (3) ways each one distinguishes itself from the other solutions.
Individuals may access the full report at no cost by following the link below.
2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternatives Enterprise Edition Report
Other than excerpts published in this press release and the DCIG article announcing the reports availability, found here, the contents of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternatives Enterprise Edition Report are copyrighted and may not be republished without permission.
About DCIG: The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) empowers the IT industry with actionable analysis. DCIG analysts provide informed third-party analysis of various cloud, data protection, and data storage technologies. DCIG’s audiences include C-level executives, IT managers, IT professionals, magazine editors, bloggers, analysts, and providers within the IT and cloud service industry.
If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Todd Dorsey at 844.324.4552 x 904 or email todd.dorsey@dcig.com.