We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Dell ECS based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Amazon AWS seems to be the marginally superior solution. Our reviewers found Dell ECS’s supporting documentation to be incomplete.
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are ease of use, deployment, and short lead time. If you are using an on-premise solution, you need to wait for the hardware, and nowadays it is very difficult, the lead time becomes very long. We propose to our customers to use Amazon AWS because it is very easy, no need to wait for hardware delivery."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"The cloud storage based on S3 is one the most valuable services we have deployed since it allows us infinite scale in storage and extremely high durability."
"The product is easy to use."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The performance is good."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"It is a stable platform."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"What I like best about Dell ECS is its stability. I also like that you can use it for large-scale data purposes. The solution works fine for me, and I haven't encountered any issues with it."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"If you have not had previous training or studied guides it will be a little difficult to use the solution. However, the difficulty also depends on what you are using the solution for. They can improve by providing more documentation, such as tutorials and videos."
"AWS has room for improvement on the Kubernetes side. I would like to go a little deeper into the Kubernetes target, Elastic, inner system, and all that. The EKS, target, and all these areas need to be improved, but that is not my key area because I am mostly working on the application side."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Dell ECS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Though tool also offers stability, it needs to offer better pricing plans". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and IBM Public Cloud, whereas Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING.
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