We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Microsoft Azure Block 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 comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"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 durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"One of the most valuable was snapshots. There were scenarios in which the whole EC2 crashed, or we were unable to use it for some time, but the data on the mounted volumes were crucial to us. So, at that time, snapshots were very helpful."
"It's easy to deploy, easy to scale up, and pay-as-you-go."
"Azure Block Storage lets you customize code you can use on that endpoint. If you want to write a logic for something, Azure Function can be used to deploy that application."
"It can be deployed independently and supports every kind of deployment."
"The solution is easy to purchase and is a Microsoft product, making procurement straightforward."
"We can use Azure Block Storage for some of our bigger files."
"We use this solution for backup storage on our on-premise backup."
"The initial setup for the production areas was on premise, which is very simple."
"You can easily access your data whenever you need it."
"I think performance can be improved."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"It would be good if the solution added a button to increase the size and make the EC2 machine recognize the increased capacity of the EBS."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"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."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"The performance of Microsoft Azure Block Storage needs improvement because it's laggy. Microsoft Azure Block Storage also has a lot of limitations on file sizes. The rendering and loading times also need improvement."
"There are capacity limitations that could be expanded."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve by having integration with Amazon AWS. The file transfer could be easier."
"The product is not as stable as we would like it to be."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement. Microsoft Azure Block Storage is priced higher than alternative solutions."
"The performance could be improved, but all the services in the cloud are improved every week."
"The implementation can be quite technical."
"One of the biggest challenges on Azure infrastructure is that sometimes we don't get what we want. Either we have to wait for it or contact support because something is not working for us... It's the system availability that is the difficult point."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "A stable and widely accepted solution". Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is most compared with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier, Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Google Cloud Storage and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), whereas Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Wasabi, Azure NetApp Files and Zadara. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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