We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) 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 product's initial setup phase is easy, as per the configurations."
"The solution is scalable."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"I appreciate Amazon's extensive range of services, which makes it a favorable choice."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The most beneficial feature of the product for data storage stems from the fact that it serves as a shared file storage."
"EFS is flexible."
"We are not that big of a cloud user. We just use it for the storage of our bytes. The most valuable aspect is the storage."
"We have cold storage here, and I think that's useful. When it comes to commercialization, it's cheaper to put data that you won't be using into the data storage. You only use a little bit of the data needed each day for your transition, so you pay less."
"Amazon S3 is easy to use and it is beneficial to use the CLI to make the backups. Since I use the CLI I do not have to do it on a web portal which is a big advantage because everything can be automatized. Automation can be done very well in Amazon S3."
"Amazon S3 is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of the Amazon S3 are its ease of use and integration"
"I've also used Azure's tool, and S3 is far more stable I haven't seen the same issues on AWS that I'm having on Azure. Amazon CloudFront is way faster. The websites are loading way faster than when you do it on Azure CDN."
"The solution's peak-up time is good."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is the data transfer acceleration because it can enable fast, easy, and secure data transfer."
"The users have nothing to worry about as the solution is well established."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"The product's stability has some shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"Around 80 percent of the features of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) are available on Linux and not in Windows, making it a major drawback of the product."
"The user activity needs to be more connected."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"Amazon S3 could improve the limitation on how much data can be stored."
"You need to fully understand the solution's best practices to get the most out of its security features."
"It is expensive for storing."
"The upload speed for data and documents is sometimes slow."
"Sometimes we have to concentrate networks to a certain location, like the EU, for example. Therefore, if we set S3 in the EU region from the Middle East or Africa, the latency is an issue and we find it hard to connect to that S3."
"The free web and DB hosting could be improved. It could be faster when you download huge files from the S3 bucket to your local system. If the S3 bucket availability and performance could be improved, we would consider hosting our database over there."
"No direct connector is available to connect Amazon S3 with other tools like MicroStrategy."
"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 6th in Cloud Storage with 10 reviews while Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while Amazon S3 is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) writes "Offers integration capabilities that improve areas like storage and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Google Cloud Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, 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 Nearline. See our Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs. Amazon S3 report.
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