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.
"Easy to upgrade, easy to expand storage and change your EC2 types."
"Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs."
"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."
"Amazon AWS is very stable."
"We've built several AI ML solutions and done lots of work on the GPUs available on Amazon servers. We did a lot of work around web spidering, natural language processing, and machine learning or deep learning workloads."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"It's definitely good for unstructured data. In earlier days, we had Centera, so for the DR it's really good. It has load balancing facility, and we're using it with the Kemp Load Balancer."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability is good."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"The customization could be improved."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"This solution could be improved by a better licensing model, especially for third-party software. Amazon AWS could also potentially be improved by more free storage, but I think that it's okay when compared to competitors' products."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
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, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and IBM Public Cloud, whereas Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), MinIO, NetApp StorageGRID, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING.
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