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Difference between Amazon S3 and Mega

Last Updated : 10 Feb, 2023
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1. Amazon S3 : 
Amazon S3 stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service. It is a cloud storage service which is provided by Amazon Web Services. It provides object storage through a web service interface. It allows to store any type of objects like data lakes for analytics, data archives, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud storage and internet applications. It was launched by AWS in 2006. 

2. Mega : 
Mega is a file hosting service and cloud storage which is provided by Mega Limited. It is basically designed for web based applications but it also provides mobile applications for Android, Windows Phone and iPhone. It was launched by Kim Dotcom in 2013. It was developed using PHP, C++, JavaScript, Java and Objective-C. It offers 20 GB free storage space with additional 5 GB for free trial. 

Difference between Amazon S3 and Mega :

AMAZON S3 MEGA
It is owned by Amazon. It is owned by Mega Limited.
It was launched in 2006. It was launched in 2013.
It was developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It was developed by Kim Dotcom.
It offers 5 GB of free storage space. It offers 20 GB free storage space with additional 5 GB per achievements.
It provides unlimited storage space for paid. It provides limited storage space for paid.
It requires credit-card details for free trial. It does not require credit-card details for free trial.
It has the unlimited maximum storage size. Maximum storage size is 16 TB here.
It does not provide applications for all operating systems and web based systems. It provides applications for all operating systems and web based systems.
It supports file versioning. It also supports file versioning.
It does not support remote uploading. It also does not support remote uploading.
It has Amazon S3 limit as traffic or band-width limit. It has traffic or band-width limit of 10 GB free and up to 16 TB per month for paid.
Maximum file size is 5 TB here. Here maximum file size is equal to available cloud drive space.

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