We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Zadara based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."
"The scalability and elasticity are helpful."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the virtual machines that are available."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is its ability to spin a new virtual machine in a few seconds."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"The greatest benefit of Amazon EC2 is its versatility, including the diverse range of servers available and the ability to connect to various resources."
"All of my lower maintenance overheads are taken care of. I don't have to worry about it."
"The processing is much faster with this product."
"Being able to scale on demand, and being able to get out of our security operation center, and not having to purchase hardware upfront, has drastically reduced the overhead that was required to maintain our information. We have also gained additional capabilities in terms of speed of replicating that information."
"Zadara Storage Cloud having 24/7 management saves me support and engineering costs because the storage and computing are managed by a third-party. We are able to focus more attention on the customer, which is truly our core business. Even at 1:00 AM or 2:00 AM at night, someone will answer, which is important."
"One of the most useful features is that they provide iSCSI as a service."
"It's very easy to expand and compared to other storage systems that we've used, it's a lot more expandable and a lot more flexible in how it's deployed."
"The most valuable features of Zadara are its visibility and simplicity to use."
"A nice feature is the immutable object storage, which can be used in conjunction with Veeam."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of deployment options."
"Amazon EC2 could improve the stability."
"EC2 is a little expensive."
"Its price can be reduced."
"This solution could be improved with better pricing. If you continue using this solution over a long period of time, your costs may accumulate."
"I would like to see more variety in the operating system images used to create test environments in EC2. There should be more versions and releases. Sometimes, you want to test an update from an old release to a higher version, but you can’t do that with the new images available. You have to use your own."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."
"Nothing is really missing in terms of features."
"Cost-wise, because it's a pay-per-use model, it may ultimately end up costing us more in the long run than something we developed ourselves."
"There are still some storage features that they lack. For example, other vendors implemented the auto-tiering feature a long time ago, while Zadara Storage Cloud is just coming out with this feature today. So, they are a little bit late compared to the market."
"Having iSCSI over the internet using a VPN, the IPSec tunnel is really the only thing that I find missing from this product."
"Some of the features are a little bit slow to come to market."
"The range of support of VMware could be better. It can support Windows, however, it cannot support other operating systems like IBM AIX. This needs to improve."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"In the next release, there can be some improvements to the web console by adding more features because the console is simple. Additionally, the calculator could improve."
"The management interface is more geared towards end-users rather than a service partner like ourselves, and there are improvements that can be made around that."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while Zadara is ranked 9th in Compute Service with 9 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Zadara is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zadara writes "We're able to scale up or down almost instantly, and changes are handled efficiently by their managed services team ". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch and Apache NiFi, whereas Zadara is most compared with MinIO, Amazon S3, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Wasabi and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Amazon EC2 vs. Zadara report.
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