CloudSee Drive: Fast Buckets Performance Benchmarks

CloudSee Drive vs. Console S3 Search

We tried to benchmark it.
We couldn’t.

Benchmarking requires two things doing the same job. AWS Console’s S3 search and CloudSee Drive’s search are not doing the same job…so there’s no fair race to run.

Benchmark Impossible

We can’t tell you it’s 10× faster (it’s more than that). We can tell you Console often can’t complete the task at all. It’s like racing a car against someone on foot…except the pedestrian must walk straight, can’t turn, and can’t see past the next block.

Task: Find a file buried in a bucket with 50,000 objects.

AWS CONSOLE

01 Open S3 in the Console.

Navigate to your bucket. You’re looking at the root.

02 Guess which folder it's in?

Search only works in the folder you’re currently viewing. Start guessing.

03 Type a prefix...exactly.

Search only matches from the beginning of the filename . “report” won’t find “2026-report.docx”.

04 Wrong folder. Navigate up. Try again.

Repeat until you find it…or give up and ask a colleague.

05 Guess again...

06 And guess again.

OUTCOME Maybe found. Eventually.

CLOUDSEE DRIVE

01 Open CloudSee Drive

Choose a Drive from the available buckets list.

02 Type any part of the filename

Substring matching. Type “report”, “Q3”, or “2026”. CloudSee finds it.

03 Or search by metadata tag

Filter by any custom AWS tag, file type, Project, description, whatever your team uses.

04 DONE!

Your file. No folder-diving. No guessing. No asking around.

AWS never built a real search for S3. CloudSee Drive did.

Capability	AWS Console	CloudSee Drive
Bucket-wide search Search all folders at once	✕	✓
Substring matching Find files without knowing the full name	✕	✓
Metadata & tag search Filter by custom S3 tags and object metadata	✕	✓
Prefix-only search Matches from the start of filename only	✓	✓
Cross-folder results in one view No manual folder navigation required	✕	✓

Stop navigating.
Start finding.

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