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.
"We have many projects where we can resolve a lot of issues with Amazon AWS. It has given customers a lot of visibility with their data. Many customers do not know what they can learn from their data and I provide them with this using useful information using Amazon AWS."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"Great scalability."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"The performance is good."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"The performance is good."
"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"It is a stable platform."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"The features that should be improved are that there should be better clarity on their invoicing. There are so many things they charge for - high line items in the invoice. I think there should be more clarity and more ease of use with their billing. I'd like to see better ease of use of with the billing console and a clear dashboard to understand the usage."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"Amazon still has room for improvement in terms of being more mature on the monitoring side and in terms of the native capabilities. Amazon should get their services portfolio stronger on OEM-based workloads such as Microsoft and Oracle. There are a lot of areas that still do not have offerings, so there is room to grow. I would be happy if they bring more maturity to the monitoring capabilities and SaaS offerings. They are strong on Infrastructure as a Service, but they are not mature on SaaS."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"Its security can be improved."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
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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