We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Google Cloud Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EBS are the ease of mounting any file system and good for block storage. We can use secondary storage for our difficult instances and it performs well."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is backup...Amazon EBS is a very good product since it is very easy to enhance or increase and migrate your servers immediately, in a matter of seconds."
"The product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"Using this solution has improved the security of our data."
"Google Cloud Storage performs well and it's easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Google Cloud Storage are the ease of use and I can share files with my colleagues."
"The most valuable features are the ease and accessibility of information."
"I have more than enough personal storage and have had no security issues."
"It is flexible and simple to use."
"Their technical support is good and very professional."
"The solution is scalable."
"The features could be improved."
"In Amazon EBS, it is difficult to reduce the space chosen by the customer. The cost increases the moment the size of the storage increases, and I will have to pay for two TB of the tool instead of one TB."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"There is room for improvement in terms of file storage. Recently, we had a scenario in which, in a file share, we had increased the IOPS capacity; this was for the production environment."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"The setup could be easier."
"I think performance can be improved."
"This solution could be improved by increasing integration with other tools, like Microsoft."
"The storage could be improved to manage it a bit better. Google Cloud Storage could be more secure, but the security features are okay."
"Google Cloud Storage is scalable, but you have to pay extra."
"Google Cloud Storage could improve by increasing the storage from 15 GB. If I want to have more storage I need to pay extra money."
"It was a little more complicated when compared to Apple."
"I would like the storage to be less expensive."
"There are inefficiencies with cache when the names are sequencing."
"The user experience needs to be simplified."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Google Cloud Storage is ranked 2nd in Cloud Storage with 66 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Google Cloud Storage is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage writes "Flexible, reliable, and beneficial for small sized companies". Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is most compared with Microsoft Azure Block Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier, Oracle Cloud Object Storage and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), whereas Google Cloud Storage is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, AT&T Cloud Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Microsoft Azure File Storage. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Google Cloud Storage report.
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