We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) 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 tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"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 product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"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 is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"The most beneficial feature of the product for data storage stems from the fact that it serves as a shared file storage."
"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."
"EFS is flexible."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy, as per the configurations."
"Its elasticity and flexible pricing are the most valuable. For Amazon EFS, you are charged based on the storage. It is also very fast and stable with a very simple and intuitive interface."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The features could be improved."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"I think performance can be improved."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"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."
"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."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product's stability has some shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 5th in Cloud Storage with 10 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) writes "Offers integration capabilities that improve areas like storage and security". 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 Microsoft Azure File Storage, whereas Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Google Cloud Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Amazon S3 Glacier. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) report.
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