We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Dell ECS based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Amazon AWS seems to be the marginally superior solution. Our reviewers found Dell ECS’s supporting documentation to be incomplete.
"The most valuable feature is the backup ability. Most people are used to one type of backup solution that they're using, but most of these solutions have features that make it difficult to transfer to the cloud. I know that Veeam now gives people the opportunity to backup some on-premises solutions to the cloud. This feature is something that a lot of people are looking for."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"The best features are flexibility and cost."
"Setting up AWS was pretty easy. It was straightforward to set up, and it took us a year to develop and migrate our mobile banking solution to the AWS cloud. Our migration experience was quite positive."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability is good."
"This product is very competitive."
"In terms of technical features, I don't see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"This solution could offer more security."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"The price could be better."
"The price could be better."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Dell ECS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and IBM Public Cloud, whereas Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING.
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