We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Microsoft Azure Block Storage 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."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."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"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 most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EBS are the ease of mounting any file system and good for block storage. We can use secondary storage for our difficult instances and it performs well."
"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 product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"The most important reason we use Azure Block Storage is the ability to store large files. When we were building the solution, we knew we needed to store images and video files that are 100 MBs or more. The second thing is speed when dealing with such large file sizes."
"The tool is pretty easy to use."
"This is a very robust and flexible solution."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"This is a very stable solution."
"RBAC, access control, soft delete, hard delete, and cool and hot storage tiers are some of the features I have found valuable in Azure Block storage."
"It provides secure cloud storage."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"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 setup could be easier."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"I want to see my region added to the data center. I'm in Africa, and if a data center is specifically added under Central Africa, that will reduce data latency when accessing data."
"They could create more readability of files."
"The solution could use a couple of security features."
"The performance of Microsoft Azure Block Storage needs improvement because it's laggy. Microsoft Azure Block Storage also has a lot of limitations on file sizes. The rendering and loading times also need improvement."
"I would like for the next release to replace the CDN being used for content delivery, there is currently a rather long delay."
"I have used Amazon's solutions which are better than Microsoft's. However, since I have predominately Microsoft solutions it is a better choice for me to use another Microsoft solution."
"Improving the pricing structure would be beneficial."
"We need to do versioning each and every time, that is, check-in and check-out. If a person forgets to do that, then there could be an issue in the replacement of that particular object in the storage. It will be great if it can be automatically managed."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "A stable and widely accepted solution". Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is most compared with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier, Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Microsoft Azure File Storage, whereas Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Wasabi, Amazon S3 Glacier, Azure NetApp Files and Zadara. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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