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 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."
"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."
"The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"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 durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"Easy to use, very intuitive, fast, and quite flexible."
"I don't have any problems with the solution. It's issue-free."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon S3 is storage, which provides a personal capacity."
"The most valuable feature of the product is storage classes."
"The most valuable feature is the storage."
"The users have nothing to worry about as the solution is well established."
"The solution auto-scales so it is easily scalable."
"The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"I think performance can be improved."
"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."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"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."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"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."
"It is expensive for storing."
"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."
"The solution's pricing should be modified to automatically expand storage based on prior usage."
"The solution's cost should be improved."
"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."
"Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."
"Amazon S3 could improve the load balancers. They are very basic compared to other solutions in the industry, such as F5. It has to be able to be analyzed up to a certain level."
"Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 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 Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), 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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