Amazon S3 can be used for personal cloud storage. As it is an object store you can store all types of electronic content on it. S3 can be considered as a general platform storage service for many different purposes, whilst Dropbox is a specialized software as a service for consumers and businesses. This is illustrated by the following :
- s3 doesn’t include a simple user friendly interface for users to collaborate with their files because s3 is a general purpose storage solution
- S3 doesn’t include utilities for you to synchronize files from your devices