Amazon S3 vs CloudMe
Amazon S3
aws.amazon.com
CloudMe
cloudme.comSide by side
| Figure | Amazon S3 | CloudMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.83/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 15 |
| Spec score · Cloud Storage Services | 9.1 (#9) | 9.4 (#3) |
| Spec score · Cloud storage | 9.0 (#14) | 8.8 (#19) |
| API | S3 exposes a REST API with current API version 2006-03-01. | CloudMe offers over 100 stateless API methods through SOAP and REST, plus a Java library, for apps and white-label services. |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| What it does | Amazon S3 is AWS object storage for retrieving any amount of data from anywhere on the web. | CloudMe provides European cloud storage, file synchronization, backup, access across devices and file sharing. |
Plans
Amazon S3
- AWS Free TierFree
- Pay as you goPrice not published
- Pay as you usePrice not published
CloudMe
- Free PlanFree
- Free accountFree
- 10 GB cloud storage$9.99 a year
- 25 GB cloud storage$39.99 a year
- 100 GB cloud storage$79.99 a year
- 200 GB cloud storage$139.99 a year
- 500 GB cloud storage$299.99 a year
- Business Professional VaultPrice not published
- Business Standard VaultPrice not published
- Enterprise Plus Cloud-Based File-serverPrice not published
In their own words
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is an object storage service for storing, managing, analyzing, and protecting data used by data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps. Capacity adjusts as objects are added or removed, without requiring storage to be provisioned in advance. Storage classes cover frequent access, infrequent access, and archiving. Versioning preserves object versions, while Replication can copy objects to buckets in the same or different AWS Regions. Amazon Athena and Redshift Spectrum can query S3 data in place with SQL; S3 Vectors adds vector storage and querying, including integration with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Security controls include encryption for uploads, Block Public Access, and Object Lock for customer-defined retention periods. AWS documents access through its Management Console, CLI, SDKs, and REST API. S3 is listed for Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows. A Free Tier is available. Pricing is usage-based, with charges varying across storage, requests, retrieval, transfer, and other features. Some archived objects have minimum storage durations of 90 or 180 days, and early deletion incurs a prorated charge.
CloudMe
CloudMe combines cloud storage, synchronization and file sharing across computers and mobile devices. Users can choose which folders sync to each computer, including keeping personal folders off work machines. Shared project folders let members contribute documents and changes, and people without CloudMe accounts can follow published pages. Scheduled upload-only folders keep an offsite copy; regular two-way synchronization mirrors deletions and is not a backup. The mobile app supports camera roll backup, music and video streaming, sharing, and reading PDFs, documents and other files. CloudMe supports WebDAV clients, and Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote can open, edit and save documents directly to it. It also offers more than 100 API methods through SOAP and REST, plus a Java library. CloudMe says it operates its own data center and hardware in Sweden, within the European Union. The free account includes 3 GB of storage and a 150 MB file size limit. Listed platforms include Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows.