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 is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"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."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"When I have to change the operating system or delete a host, I can store the data in EBS or assign it to another host."
"The product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"The solution is good and includes all the features we expect."
"I don't have any problems with the solution. It's issue-free."
"The versioning of this solution for accidental deletion has been most valuable."
"We can easily connect to the AWS resources."
"Amazon S3 is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are unlimited storage, scalability, and performance."
"S3 is well suited for both big and little data repositories of objects ranging from backup to archive to active video images and much more."
"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."
"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"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."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"I think performance can be improved."
"They should improve in the area of metadata curation."
"The product should enable users to create their own shortcuts."
"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."
"There are some scalability limitations."
"We would like some improvement in the cost of storage via this solution, as it currently has a very high price point."
"If a certain resource is left unchecked, you can easily use a lot of it and drive up costs."
"One thing would be automatic replication between buckets, some feature like that."
"I would like there to be more support without needing to use Transfer Family."
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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 70 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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