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    Vishal kayande

Automated malware scanning has strengthened student file security and streamlined compliance

  • May 10, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

Our main use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is to automatically scan and secure files uploaded to S3 buckets. This ensures that all student projects, faculty documents, and shared resources stored in AWS remain free from any type of malware, ransomware, or Trojan. It adds a critical layer of trust and compliance to our cloud storage workflows.

During exam season, hundreds of students upload project reports and code files to shared S3 buckets. We have configured an AWS Lambda function that triggers antivirus scanning every time a new file is uploaded. If the file is clean, then it is stored normally, and if malware is detected, the file is automatically quarantined and an alert is sent via CloudWatch to the faculty team.

Automated malware scanning of uploaded files with student project submissions as the practical example has improved security, efficiency, and compliance while reducing IT overhead.

What is most valuable?

The alerting and integration with AWS services are particularly valuable. Multiple features stand out, including real-time scanning of uploaded files, automated quarantine for infected objects, integration with AWS services, scalability across millions of files and multiple regions, and compliance support for HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001.

Performance and features have become increasingly important to us. The ease of integration, automation, workflow efficiency, performance impact, and scalability make Antivirus for Amazon S3 stand out beyond just security. It is easy to integrate, runs efficiently without slowing workflows, and scales efficiently.

The solution has reduced IT overhead by thirty to forty percent since manual file checks are no longer needed. It has also improved our compliance posture, making audits smoother, and increased trust among faculty and students when sharing files. Antivirus for Amazon S3 has prevented potential breaches that could have cost one to two lakh rupees in downtime and recovery.

For improved compliance and audit improvements, we now have automated proof of security where every file uploaded to S3 is scanned automatically and logs are generated. We have achieved reduced manual effort since previously our team had to manually verify files before sharing them. With Antivirus for Amazon S3, this process is now automated. Clear reporting has been established in which alerts and quarantine actions are logged in CloudWatch. Faculty and IT staff no longer spend hours compiling the evidence of security checks.

What needs improvement?

There are areas that should be improved, such as user interface and visibility. Currently, most workflows rely on CloudWatch logs and Lambda triggers, which are technical. A more user-friendly dashboard showing scan results, quarantined files, and compliance status would make monitoring easier for non-technical staff. Additionally, performance metrics should be enhanced. While scanning is efficient, there is limited visibility into scan times, throughput, and resource usage. Adding performance analytics would help our teams optimize workflows and prove efficiency during audits.

Granular controls represent another area for improvement. The current scanning policies apply bucket-wide. More fine-grained controls, such as scanning only certain file types, prefixes, or user uploads, would reduce unnecessary scans and improve efficiency. Performance visibility should also be enhanced. While scanning is stable, there is limited visibility into scan times, throughput, and resource usage. Adding performance analytics would help optimize workflows and prove efficiency during audits.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for approximately one year in our academic and faculty projects.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is very stable, and I have not experienced any downtime and reliability issues. It is very reliable and stable to use.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is very scalable. We have tested it with hundreds of students' project uploads during exam session. The scanning process remained consistent with no noticeable delays, even when handling thousands of files in a short time window. In multi-region deployment, we store files across multiple AWS regions for redundancy and accessibility. Antivirus scanning worked seamlessly across these regions with alerts and quarantine actions delivered reliably.

How are customer service and support?

Customer support for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is accessible through AWS Marketplace support channels and integrates with standard AWS support tiers. We contacted support once during initial setup to clarify Lambda configuration for scanning triggers. The support team provided clear documentation links and step-by-step guidance which resolved the issue quickly.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before adopting Antivirus for Amazon S3, we relied on manual file scanning with traditional endpoint antivirus tools. Files were scanned before being uploaded to S3 buckets. The challenges with the old approach included manual effort, human error, scalability issues, and audit burden. We switched to Antivirus for Amazon S3, which provided us with automation, scalability, audit-ready logs, cost-effectiveness, and reliability.

What was our ROI?

We have seen a clear return on investment after adopting Antivirus for Amazon S3 in our academic and faculty projects.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 follows AWS's pay-as-you-go model, which means cost scales with usage. For our academic workload, the pricing has been cost-effective since we only pay for the file scan and Lambda execution time. Compared to traditional endpoint antivirus licensing, this approach saved us fifty thousand rupees annually in overhead. There were no upfront hardware costs because everything runs in the AWS public cloud. We purchased Antivirus for Amazon S3 through AWS Marketplace, which simplified the licensing and billing.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before adopting Antivirus for Amazon S3, we evaluated several alternatives. Traditional endpoint antivirus tools were initially considered where we had the choice of continuing with local antivirus software installed on faculty and IT systems. These tools required manual scanning before uploads, which was inefficient and error-prone. Third-party cloud security gateways were also examined, where we looked at external cloud security solutions that offered malware scanning for storage. These alternatives were expensive, added complexity, and required additional licensing outside AWS.

What other advice do I have?

I would give others the following advice: start with automation, plan for compliance, think about scalability, and do not just test with small workloads. Upload large batches of files to confirm the solution scales well in your environment. Budget wisely and integrate with security workflows. Keep it simple by leveraging automation, planning for compliance, validating scalability, and monitoring costs.

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is very reliable and cloud-native, and it is the best fit for cloud workloads. If your organization relies heavily on Amazon S3 for storage, this solution is a natural fit. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten based on its overall performance and value.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    SurajKumar2

Automated scans have kept my cloud storage clean and provide secure file management

  • May 08, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

I am using Antivirus for Amazon S3 to scan all the files in my S3 bucket. This helps me save my S3 bucket from viruses and infected files. Using Antivirus for Amazon S3, I am able to remove the affected virus-infected files from my S3 bucket.

I have integrated Antivirus for Amazon S3 with my S3 so that it will scan and inform me if files are infected, and auto-remove functionality is also available. If I want auto-remove enabled, it will automatically remove the infected files.

What is most valuable?

The best feature of Antivirus for Amazon S3 is that it will not affect my directory and will remove all the viruses from the system.

It will help me ensure that viruses are not present, which allows me to work in a secure environment. Having no viruses and no affected files makes it very helpful for me to maintain secure file storage.

I received security from Antivirus for Amazon S3, which is the main relevant benefit.

If you want your S3 bucket to be secure, you can perfectly rely on Antivirus for Amazon S3. It will delete all the affected files and scan on a regular basis, which will be very helpful for you.

If you want your S3 bucket to be secure and virus-free, you can use Antivirus for Amazon S3. It will be very fast in scanning your files and will give alerts if any issues arise, and it will delete the viruses and clean them from your bucket.

What needs improvement?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is very stable now, and I do not want any changes.

I did not want anything to be improved regarding Antivirus for Amazon S3.

I did not want anything to be changed with Antivirus for Amazon S3. Everything is very good.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is stable.

How are customer service and support?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has very good customer support.

I am rating the customer support of Antivirus for Amazon S3 at 10 out of 10 because they are helping very well.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I did not use any other solution before Antivirus for Amazon S3.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is very good. Pricing is handled by another team.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I did not evaluate another option because I am using S3, which is the reason I started using Antivirus for Amazon S3.

What other advice do I have?

I do not want anything else about the features.

I do not have any additional thoughts about Antivirus for Amazon S3 before we wrap up.

I give Antivirus for Amazon S3 an overall rating of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?


    Sanjay Charitesh Makam

Automation has improved threat detection and reduced manual checks but pricing still needs work

  • May 01, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

My main use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is to secure my S3 buckets in Amazon, which can easily be hacked. I want to secure it from malicious injections.

How has it helped my organization?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has positively impacted my organization by reducing the number of people who need to monitor threats or malicious code injections. This solution replaces that manual monitoring and only sends alerts, so we do not need to wait or check every time if it is safe or if it is getting hacked.

It has saved one or two people and saved almost 10% to 30% of the time. It also improved efficiency by almost 70%.

What is most valuable?

The best features Antivirus for Amazon S3 offers are zero maintenance, zero server maintenance, and the alerts. If you are a small company or small organization, you can also get a good file size. The setup time is very low compared to other solutions, which can take 15 minutes to half an hour, but it takes under one minute.

It can easily be integrated with AWS. The alerts help my team because if something unusual occurs in our bucket or something happens that could not happen in the bucket, it will observe and understand the patterns sometimes and send us email alerts so that we can take a quick look at it and fix it immediately. The quick setup improves our workflow significantly.

The integration of Antivirus for Amazon S3 is very good and easily integrated with Amazon AWS because it is an Amazon AWS product.

What needs improvement?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 can be improved by implementing multiple buckets into one guard, enabling TBAC which can be automatically configured by Amazon GuardDuty, and adding multi-engine scanning.

Regarding needed improvements, I think pricing is a bit higher for people who are using it very low and for small organizations. Large organizations who will use it more will benefit from the price, but small organizations will face significant monetary loss. I think they should reduce the pricing and put event-based pricing related to the organization size or the usage. I understand it is pay-per-use, but sometimes it does not make sense.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for the last six to eight months.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others looking into using Antivirus for Amazon S3 is that this is good for medium and large-sized organizations, considering the price and what it offers. It can reduce some people, but for small organizations, I think people should be there sometimes to monitor it to save money. The people who do multitasking should be the ones who monitor as well to reduce more costs rather than relying only on GuardDuty. I give this product a rating of 8.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    Iurii Efimov

Automated quarantine has reduced security risks and has removed manual incident handling

  • April 27, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

My main use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is quarantine.

A specific example of how I use Antivirus for Amazon S3 for quarantine is that we use it from the black box that can recognize viruses immediately.

How has it helped my organization?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has positively impacted my organization as it has reduced time to market and secured our operations.

There are no special specific improvements in my secure operations resulting from the reduction of time to market.

What is most valuable?

The best features Antivirus for Amazon S3 offers are advanced automatization and isolated quarantine bucket.

The advanced automatization and the isolated quarantine bucket have helped my workflow and security because I do not need to write my own scripts on Python and Lambda to operate with incidents, which saves us a lot of costs.

I think it is excluding the human factor of failure.

What needs improvement?

I think there is a problem with pricing while scaling, and it is a blocker for big corporations as there is a subscription for the instance plus volume of scanning.

It would be great to have more understandable billing dashboards.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for more than five years.

How are customer service and support?

I rate customer service as 3 out of 10.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others looking into using Antivirus for Amazon S3 is to connect it immediately without hesitation. I rate this review as 9 out of 10.


    reviewer2827551

Cloud storage security has improved and reporting and automated quarantine still need work

  • April 26, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

Our main use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is to protect the workloads. We put endpoint protection around CrowdStrike and a few other things, though newer solutions like Bucket AV are coming up. The main use case would be to protect the workloads running in EC2 and the containers running on EKS. Generally, the control plane is managed by AWS, but the application plane or the application clusters, we have to protect them. In S3, it is mostly object storage. The files or the objects that are stored there have to be protected from DDoS attacks and we need to secure the endpoints through which those objects are accessed in the S3 bucket.

Generally what we do is we apply separate bucket level policies and object level policies, and we use signed URLs. That is one way we protect the objects. We apply antivirus where we have to when on the code that is used to access those endpoints. It is not just one layer of antivirus, but a combination of antivirus and also the bucket policies. That is how we do it. This is a fairly common use case across the industry.

What is most valuable?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 offers best features such as endpoint protection, object level protection, bucket level protection, and the ability to protect objects using signed URLs for each and every object within it. We have the logs and can actually set up certain alerts. In case something untoward happens, we can create logs of which object was used or accessed rather. That way we can create traceability through CloudTrail. We can control who has access to those objects and buckets within the S3 bucket.

Out of those features, I find bucket level policy, static, dynamic and forensic analysis, configuration visibility across buckets, and the ability to make all those things with minimal operational overhead most valuable in my day-to-day work. That is very critical. One of the things that AWS has is that it is not very costly, which makes a lot of difference because we have to protect data lakes and ingestion pipelines and application workflows. For example, we have a database where we take the backups in an S3. This is a real use case. Our application is protected but if the backup is not protected, then we have a security issue or a compliance issue. These antivirus products are very useful to do flexible scanning models. Security infrastructure is built in S3 bucket in this case. We can even bring in our own antivirus products from the marketplace that applies on the S3. That makes it very flexible. It adds a lot on cloud storage security in that sense. The final point is the built-in and native to cloud native malware scanning for S3 or even EBS and EFS and SFFS. These are the new features on Antivirus for Amazon S3 and that we believe is very critical.

Multi-engine virus detection is a unique thing that is coming up with Antivirus for Amazon S3. We could actually use multiple antivirus products. It is as if we have multiple algorithms working to find the vulnerability so we can tell what protection we can add. We can have Sophos, CSS Premium and other things. We can have event-based scanning module, retroactive scanning, or even API scanning models, which is endpoint protection in a way. These can all be done on real-time and on-demand scanning. It is not necessarily a secluded one-time scan but we can actually trigger it as and when we want on the different types of workloads and objects.

The best thing to say about Antivirus for Amazon S3's impact on our organization is that we have never been flagged for any major data leakage and every scan that we do comes up green, which means we have been able to protect our data in line with the guidelines of the organization and the regulatory authorities. That is the biggest outcome. Security is a thing that we do to make sure nothing happens. By not having that vulnerability in the system is the key differentiator, rather than having a vulnerability and then fixing it using Antivirus for Amazon S3. We would rather be trying to be proactive about it and ensure that we do not have an incident in the first place.

We do have periodic scans on the buckets and generally all over the codebase and all the cloud infrastructure that we give and take to do. There are certain classifications of vulnerabilities such as high, medium, low and then what is the threat vector or risk vector there we try to quantify as per the cloud architecture baseline that we have. We try to measure where we land with this. Generally, there is a risk assurance program process which is very strict. Having these controls helps us navigate through those processes and the ideal goal post is we should not have more than 10, I mean 10 is just a number, it could be even five, but generally we try not to have high vulnerability exposures in the solution and that typically is the measure of the positive impact. We do track these compliance metrics or vulnerability metrics.

What needs improvement?

I think typically on the signed URLs, if they can do something such as when someone puts an object into the bucket, they can immediately do a scan of that object without the user or the organization having to ask for a scan. That will be very useful for any specific case, it could be a virus in itself or a trojan or any of those things. If it can immediately block that storage or immediately create an alert that they are quarantining it, that would be another great feature. If they can put a quarantine for any object that can be a little dodgy or can be a suspicious object being stored in that bucket, that could be a great feature to have.

I think reporting does exist already with Antivirus for Amazon S3. We can generate those reports via CloudTrail but if they are integrated with the antivirus itself without us having to create specific reports every time would be better. In some cases generating those logs can be a little tedious. If they can be made easy and probably with some drag and drop feature, that will be really useful.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 as part of our cloud security for more than five years now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have never seen any issue with the scalability of any AWS service.

How are customer service and support?

I have never come across any specific issue with customer support for Antivirus for Amazon S3. Generally they respond within the SLA timeframes so we are happy.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before choosing Antivirus for Amazon S3, we mostly evaluated Sophos antivirus and then a few more that we do have, but that was one of the requirements from the organization to evaluate a couple of those, so which we did. Generally that is what we use. We also use Fortinet, but that is more on the firewall side.

How was the initial setup?

We started this solution with a cloud native approach. However, it was not on Kubernetes so it was our first deployment on EKS, Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS. Previously it was just an EC2 and VM based system. That was the major differentiator and that is the reason we switched because we wanted to take the benefit of Kubernetes.

What was our ROI?

I can tell you about AWS but not necessarily on Antivirus for Amazon S3 as such. There was a major volume shrinkage on AWS which they did not directly tell us but we realized that one of the critical applications released all the pod volumes and pod storages. When the system recovered, meaning AWS recovered and they provided the space that is needed to run the application, all those volumes came back except the data volume which we had to fix with the help of AWS support. If it was not a Kubernetes managed platform, then it will not be able to recover that way, it will crash very badly and we would have business data loss. That was a great return on investment where something absolutely extreme happens and even though AWS does take care of the things very well but accidents do happen. In this case, we really recovered very quickly. It happened across all seven environments. All seven environments recovered without us having to do anything. That is a great outcome.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Generally, the setup is pretty easy. We have an agreement with Amazon so that is taken care of through that channel and we never had any issue. We can have our enterprise agreement on the pricing. Generally in this case, the more we consume, the better the pricing gets with time. We are fairly good on the pricing on Amazon side on that.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Please do look at the roadmap of the product that you are evaluating and if that aligns with the specific organization that you are part of. Because if the organization wants a different software, such as Palo Alto or Symantec or any or Norton, Fortra, all of these things, make sure we do that because sometimes what can happen is an existing antivirus for other workloads may be able to do for S3 as well and we may be able to save heaps of licensing fee on that instead of having too many different firewalls. At the same time, there can be a counter argument to that, which is that sometimes it is good to have multiple antivirus doing various things because if the budget permits, it can be very useful to have different antivirus trying to do different parts of the overall landscape. Because if some algorithm cannot pick up one type of vulnerability, some other antivirus will. It is a mix and match situation.

What other advice do I have?

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Antivirus for Amazon S3 overall as seven. I rate it seven out of ten because if they can add the improvements that I suggested, then I will rate it higher obviously. It is not that bad that I have to give it less than seven. I think it does some of the things but it has to improve as well. I believe this is the right rating for now. Antivirus for Amazon S3 is mostly public cloud but the tenancy is managed by us, so it is more like private cloud.

Mostly we use AWS and there are a few things that run on Azure, for example, Active Directory. My overall rating for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    reviewer2749710

Automatic file scanning has protected shared content and now requires richer, AI-driven checks

  • April 24, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

As an API Integration Engineer, my main use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3 involves scanning partners' uploaded content that arrives via API. I deal with files that third parties push into S3, such as media files like images or video files from channel managers or PMS partners that have API access to the Airbnb API source code.

Antivirus for Amazon S3 fits into my workflow by triggering scanning automatically at some point, while at other times, I perform manual scans depending on the load of the files that partners push towards our API.

In my main use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3, guests, hosts, and customer support agents eventually see these downloaded files, which may include malicious PDFs or host onboarding documentation that could feature a malicious customer support agent mechanism.

What is most valuable?

The best features Antivirus for Amazon S3 offers include native S3 event integration, which allows scanning to fire automatically, in-place scanning so files are not copied to another bucket, results attached as S3 object tags, IAM-based policy enforcement on scan results, large file support with streaming scans, archive and nested file scanning, multiple detection engines running in parallel, custom YARA rule support, quarantine or automated remediation actions, scan on demand, and retrospective scanning.

In my day-to-day work, I rely the most on in-place scanning, as it is the best feature of modern Antivirus for Amazon S3 that does not pull objects out of the bucket for scanning. For example, older solutions required copying files to an EC2 instance for scanning, which was slow, expensive, and doubled our data egress attack surface.

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has positively impacted my organization by making the entire organization much safer, allowing partners to safely upload their personal files, images, and videos to the Airbnb platform, which ensures that we as a company can be a reliable partner to our partners with safe integration.

What needs improvement?

I believe Antivirus for Amazon S3 can be improved by implementing some pre-writing features, such as synchronously scanning at the API layer.

I would like to see improvements in content-aware scanning not just for malware, but also for other content, such as PDF files or API request parameters and strings, along with prompt injection scanning with custom AI agents creating the skill direction.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is sufficiently stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate its scalability as nine out of ten, as S3 is one of the most scalable services AWS has built, providing a foundation upon which most other scalable AWS services rely. However, it does not achieve a perfect score of ten due to real scaling cliffs when operating at high volumes that can catch you off guard.

How are customer service and support?

Customer support for Antivirus for Amazon S3 has always been straightforward, and since they are globally distributed, I would rate them nine out of ten.

What was our ROI?

I would say we have seen money saved and time saved on a long-term basis with Antivirus for Amazon S3, although we did not reduce employee numbers.

After a couple of meetings with higher management, I believe there were negotiations, and the overall business terms were met, making my experience with pricing and compliance satisfactory.

What other advice do I have?

I would like to add that it would be beneficial to use AI as a parallel agent in the back end to fast-forward the malicious detection process for the large number of files being sent in various directions.

I advise others looking into using Antivirus for Amazon S3 to check the pricing and determine if this service is something that their company or organization truly needs. They should consider the downsides and upsides, check incident level metrics, and evaluate their overall long-term budgeting, which will help in making a final decision.

I would like to add that S3 is the gold standard for storage scalability and antivirus protection. Overall, it is a decent product. I would rate this review a seven out of ten.


    Vivek_Jaiswal

Automated threat response has protected our cloud data and has improved security efficiency

  • April 19, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

My primary use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is protecting the data and files stored in the S3 bucket from malware or viruses. The solution scans the files to ensure they are safe.

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has protected us many times. In a real scenario that I remember, there was access to an Amazon S3 bucket from unknown locations, including Russia and Ukraine. We immediately received an alert about suspicious account activity from unknown user locations, and an API call was activated. Once we received the alert, we quickly investigated and found that malicious Java code had been injected into the S3 bucket, which was causing infections when users downloaded it on their machines. The host was compromised, the AWS account was compromised, and we got a real-time malware alert.

What is most valuable?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 protects our system by scanning files in real time and detecting viruses, malicious files, and malware, then taking comprehensive action for threat detection and protection.

The best feature is definitely the deployment. The deployment takes less than 10 minutes. The solution runs within the AWS account, ensuring the data remains secure and compliant. Automated threat mitigation is the second main feature. It automatically tags, deletes, and quarantines the infected file upon detection and provides robust defense against malware, protecting in real time.

The system can automatically delete and quarantine the infected files once they are found to be malicious. This antivirus solution has a robust defense against malware, ensuring it never reaches the end user's S3 bucket and S3 locations.

It has definitely impacted our business positively. It makes our complete S3 bucket and AWS account secure by ensuring that no malicious file can be uploaded or downloaded by any AWS account holder. All the data that is stored in the cloud is fully protected, fully compliant, and secure.

There is definitely a huge impact on the organization that we observed. There was an 80% efficiency increase with the deployment of this antivirus solution, which causes fewer incidents to be created whenever any alert is generated in real time. We saved a lot of time in terms of mitigating or identifying threats and quickly taking action on securing the AWS account from malware infection spread. It saves a lot of time and has improved the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the account and storage devices.

What needs improvement?

I would definitely say that if the solution gets updated on a day-to-day basis so that the cloud signature gets updated for all AWS account holders during the scanning, and if the deployment of updates happens every day, it would be helpful. Additionally, if AI and machine learning can be used in detecting and identifying algorithms to quickly identify malicious files across the storage locations and storage paths, it would really help enhance the solution.

There are no major issues, but if the company could work on deployment features as well as cost-effectiveness and some specific features that require licensing needs, it would be really helpful.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for more than three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is very stable. In terms of performance, overall functionality, and features, it is very stable in terms of deployment and taking updates.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is really scalable and good in terms of being scalable as per our requirement, as per the storage capability and storage requirement. It can be easily extended if we move from low storage to high storage while ensuring the S3 bucket capabilities and functionality. It can be easily scalable whenever required.

How are customer service and support?

The support was very fantastic. They helped a lot in terms of the integration and deployment of this product's antivirus solutions.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I evaluated SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint because we were getting a lot of false positives. It was not generating many true positive alerts. We were receiving a lot of false positive alerts on business-related files that were identified as a suspicious category. I moved to Antivirus for Amazon S3 because of these issues.

How was the initial setup?

The best feature is definitely the deployment. The deployment takes less than 10 minutes.

What about the implementation team?

There is a lot of improvement that I see with the deployment of this antivirus solution. Fewer employees were needed because this antivirus solution not only takes actions automatically but also remediates threats quickly. We saved a lot of money because it is a cloud-based solution, so we pay for what we use. A lot of time was saved, and there is good effort in terms of investigation and identification of threats.

What was our ROI?

There is definitely a huge impact on the organization that we observed. There was an 80% efficiency increase with the deployment of this antivirus solution, which causes fewer incidents to be created whenever any alert is generated in real time.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The deployment and the pricing are very good. I take the services for a longer time period, so the vendor worked in an easy and cooperative way in deployment.

What other advice do I have?

I would provide a rating of nine because this antivirus solution is working in a very positive way in protecting the entire organization and confidential data and storage across the S3 buckets. It helps in securing the devices, securing the files, and securing the confidential data.

I think others should definitely go for Antivirus for Amazon S3. The reason is that it is not just about protecting from malicious files, but it takes action immediately by quarantining the file and deleting the file whenever needed. I can perform automated actions, automated alert investigation, and quickly block threats from the organization. It definitely works in a real-time scenario. Since it is integrated with the cloud, it is really easy to get support from the cloud storage. Additionally, the cloud signature gets updated every day, which is really helpful. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.


    Hussain Gagan

Automated file scanning has improved security and now lets us focus more on core development work

  • April 18, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is typically used for scanning files uploaded to S3 buckets for malware before they are consumed by downstream services. This is especially critical when handling user-generated content or third-party uploads.

What is most valuable?

One of the best features of Antivirus for Amazon S3 is automatic malware scanning on upload without needing to manage infrastructure. AWS native solutions such as GuardDuty Malware Protection provide fully managed agent-less scanning.

A key aspect of Antivirus for Amazon S3 that is worth mentioning is the ability to receive notifications and alerts when potential threats are detected, which allows my team to take swift action and ensure the security of our application.

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has improved our overall security posture, especially for compliance-heavy applications. My team became more confident handling external file uploads. We reduced custom infrastructure costs by around 30% since we did not need EC2-based scanning pipelines. Additionally, development times dropped by about 20% due to the managed service.

I have seen a significant improvement in my team's productivity since we implemented Antivirus for Amazon S3. The 20% reduction in development time has allowed us to focus on higher-priority tasks. With the managed service handling the scanning, our developers can now allocate more time to feature development and less time to infrastructure management.

What needs improvement?

One limitation I have identified is that advanced customizations can be tricky with fully managed solutions for Antivirus for Amazon S3. Sometimes we need more control over scanning logic or workflows.

For needed improvements, I would say documentation is good, but troubleshooting scan failures or false positives can still take time with Antivirus for Amazon S3. Better debugging tools would help.

One area I would like to see improved for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is the automation of certain security protocols, such as automatic updates and patch management to further enhance our security posture. I believe this would help us streamline our operations and reduce the risk of human error.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for about a year now, primarily in projects where users upload files such as documents or images. It became important when we started dealing with untrusted file uploads.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is very stable, especially AWS-managed solutions. We have not experienced any major downtime or failures in our scanning workflows.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is excellent. It can handle high volumes of uploads without performance degradation since it builds on S3's event-driven architecture.

How are customer service and support?

Customer support for Antivirus for Amazon S3, specifically AWS native solutions, is solid if you have an enterprise plan. Community and documentation also cover most common issues.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Earlier, we used a custom EC2-based antivirus pipeline, but it required maintenance and scaling efforts, which is why we switched to a managed solution for simplicity.

How was the initial setup?

The setup for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is relatively simple. We only need to enable scanning on buckets or deploy via CloudFormation. Pricing is usually pay-as-you-go based on the data scanned.

What was our ROI?

The return on investment for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is strong because it reduces security risk and eliminates the need for custom infrastructure. Overall efficiency improved by roughly 25%.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I evaluated custom Lambda-based scanning, third-party tools such as BucketAV and solutions using VirusTotal APIs before choosing Antivirus for Amazon S3.

What other advice do I have?

My advice for others looking into using Antivirus for Amazon S3 is that if your application accepts file uploads, you should definitely implement antivirus scanning for S3. I recommend starting with a managed solution to avoid unnecessary complexity.

Antivirus for Amazon S3 is essential for any system handling external file uploads. It is one of those things you would not think about until something goes wrong, so it is better to have it in place early. I rate this product an 8 out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    reviewer2816160

Automated threat scanning has protected our multi-cloud file workflows and reduced incident rates

  • April 10, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

My main use case for Antivirus for Amazon S3 is for our cluster management system where we manage the NFS, which is very useful for protecting our file system before uploading to our storage. We started from there and have had a very great experience as a customer for this product. Basically, we have used Antivirus for Amazon S3 for our multi-cluster storage management where we have RAID configured, supporting us by scanning all files before loading to our file system. It is very easy to maintain AWS integrations or GCP integrations where we are uploading all files to our cloud infrastructure, making this one of the basic use cases we have in our day-to-day life cycle.

The scanning process in my workflow is a cron-based setup, where when we push files to our cluster, it scans and passes them through. If any alert is found, we get an immediate trigger, allowing us to re-verify the file system and process it. If everything looks okay, the file will proceed to the next stage.

What is most valuable?

The best features Antivirus for Amazon S3 offers are its easy integrations with AWS services such as S3 or Lambda, or even our infrastructure which supports the multi-cloud storage system. Auto-scans of the file system are very useful for us, and it detects and blocks any kind of threats.

The most valuable feature to my team is that it is a very lightweight antivirus which supports all kinds of threat mechanisms and provides very little manual intervention.

The best aspect of Antivirus for Amazon S3 is that it is very accurate and is able to process large file systems and the mechanism. It even manages network balancing where a file is coming in a distributed way, and it is able to handle it, though the user interface could be improved for processing large file systems.

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has positively impacted our organization by definitely reducing our manual work and saving time for our infrastructure. It has improved our life cycle, file processing, and it is really securing our infrastructure.

The specific outcomes we have seen after integration are that in the past, we used to face a lot of incidents because of files getting corrupted and not being received in our cluster's file system. However, after we integrated Antivirus for Amazon S3, we are very accurate and our incident number has decreased significantly.

What needs improvement?

The improvement area for Antivirus for Amazon S3 that we are facing is with large-scale file systems; it should be distributed and support a large scale of data.

What other advice do I have?

I gave it a rating of nine because the large file system processing is an improvement area that is still present. I think if that will be fixed, then for the end-user customer, it will be more helpful, and I can definitely move towards a ten without any problem.

I did not purchase Antivirus for Amazon S3 through the AWS Marketplace; this was the enterprise on-boarded through our company's tie-up with Amazon.

My advice for others looking into using Antivirus for Amazon S3 is to definitely consider it. In the past year, we have used this antivirus with multiple use cases, and it fits all of them, making us very happy with this product.

I do not have any small issues or suggestions for improvement with Antivirus for Amazon S3.

I do not have any additional thoughts about Antivirus for Amazon S3 before we wrap up. My overall review rating for this product is nine.

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    Abdulsalam Abdulsalam

Automated tagging has transformed our cloud file protection and now improves security compliance

  • April 09, 2026
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

I mainly use Antivirus for Amazon S3 for native AWS and Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection on the S3. I also use it as a third-party marketplace app and as an open-source and DIY solution. These are the main ways I have been using it.

How has it helped my organization?

Antivirus for Amazon S3 has had a positive impact on my organization, and I notice improvements in security.

Since using Antivirus for Amazon S3, I have seen that it is a very key feature for me as it improves compliance and also reduces risk. When you have files with an automated object target on them, the solution will put them in quarantine or delete them immediately. This flags anomalies effectively.

I have noticed measurable outcomes since implementing Antivirus for Amazon S3, as it saves time. Since we are using automated tagging, we do not rely on detections, such as getting an alert and then having a human go and remediate the issue. We try to make these actions as simple as possible and have them performed automatically. The actions immediately put the anomaly in quarantine, and any engineers can check in later.

What is most valuable?

The best features Antivirus for Amazon S3 offers include event-driven execution, automated object targeting, immediate remediation, in-tenant processing, data sovereignty, and scale and archiving support.

Out of those features, automated object targeting stands out as the most valuable in my day-to-day work because it allows me to automatically apply a metadata tag to S3 objects as a post-scan, for instance, identifying them as infected or clean.

I would add that you rely on humans for protection in your operation, just as you do with the automated object target. An infected tag will instantly trigger an automated workflow and bridge on AWS Lambda to immediately delete the file or move it to a completely isolated area, such as quarantine. If the file is not being deleted immediately, it is put in quarantine.

What needs improvement?

I do not have suggestions on how Antivirus for Amazon S3 can be improved at this time. I am still exploring the app and trying to see what the product can do with the features more.

I do not wish for any improvements at this time, as it has only been four months, and I am still working with it alongside different tools to see the product limits or the way the product is designed. The documentation is fine for me, and I am still looking for more features or things that I can do on my own or with my teams to improve our environment.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Antivirus for Amazon S3 for about four months.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others looking into using Antivirus for Amazon S3 is that it is something every company needs to try or every engineer that has something on the public cloud or private cloud. I would rate this solution an 8 out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?