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 initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"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 most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"The product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"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."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is the filter option. You can search with some artificial intelligence kinds of features. For example, if I search for a beach, it'll show me all the beach-related pictures, which I took five or ten years before. So this is a cool feature that I've seen. They give as many features as they can to make it better, so I'm happy with this solution."
"We are mostly doing telephony and generic web services in the telephony."
"You do not need to install anything."
"The most valuable features are stability and ease of use."
"The combination of Firebase features, including storage, the Firebase database, and authentication, has been the most valuable. Firebase offers Google authentication, which is convenient for our needs. Additionally, Firebase provides email authentication and Gmail authentication, which are easy to set up and integrate into our applications."
"The best feature is ease of use."
"Using this solution has improved the security of our data."
"There's no implementation process."
"The cost of using EBS is high compared to other cloud vendors such as Tencent Cloud or CARI Cloud. Some costs are generated immediately and some are likely to increase."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"The features could be improved."
"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."
"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"It was not easy to reach the storage because there were different network zones."
"The solution is good, however, it would benefit from increased storage without the additional cost."
"I would prefer more support for alternative operating systems like DSD. The performance could be better because sometimes there are glitches. The price could be better."
"Could be improved from a storage perspective and a cost perspective."
"They need to get some parts of the program more mature, like the admin management part as well as the monitoring part."
"The cost of additional storage could be cheaper."
"The solution must provide some accessibility features."
"The problem I face right now is that my data warehouse is being hosted on Google Cloud, however, integration between Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure is a big problem."
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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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