We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Amazon S3 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 most important feature is the volume types in those hundred EDS. For example, if you need a volume with high IOPS, you should choose an io2 or io2 Block Express volume type. The default volume type for EBS is GP3, which is a good balance of performance and price for most workloads."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"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."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"It is easy to manage and easy to understand."
"The multi-zone replication is great."
"The most valuable features are unlimited storage, scalability, and performance."
"Set up a performance and stress-based test suite to measure the endurance of a web application on Amazon AWS cloud system using S3 as the back-end storage infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that I mostly used the tool's free tier version, so I like the fact that its cost is very low."
"The solution is easy to use for anyone with minimal technical knowledge."
"My company uses Amazon S3 by default for every single project. I like that you can use it for storing different file formats. Amazon S3 is also the easiest to use compared to other solutions."
"You don't have to specify your clone, availability clone, or your locations. Everything's over there. They have a receipt for the instance where we have to select the exact location of what we are clicking. The S3 storage capacity is high, and the price is reasonable."
"I think performance can be improved."
"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."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"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."
"When we need to find the queries there is no user interface, it is the only textual format that is bulky. If we need some data we will use Athena for queries and we will get results. When comparing this solution to others, such as DataDog, they provide a wonderful UI, and user-friendly dashboards, and many other features that this solution is lacking."
"There are some scalability limitations."
"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."
"The support is better than other cloud providers but sometimes it takes a while to have a resolution to our issues."
"The solution needs to improve test recognition."
"The search option must be enabled in the UI to filter and retrieve files."
"Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored."
"The pricing and licensing are pretty complex."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Amazon S3 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 Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". 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 Google Cloud Storage, whereas Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Google Cloud Storage. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Amazon S3 report.
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