Here’s the difference between AWS S3 and 5X. The comparison is based on pricing, deployment, business model, and other important factors.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 provides easy-to-use management features so you can organize your data and configure finely-tuned access controls to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements. Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) of durability, and stores data for millions of applications for companies all around the world.
5X is an end to end data platform built on top of the best in class vendors of the modern data stack. 5x lets you work with the best vendors of the modern data stack without worrying about signing different enterprise contracts or stitching them together. Companies using 5x are able to deploy end to end data platforms in minutes not months.