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 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 comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"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 tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"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 integration with Cloudfront helps in fetching the static phase and default phases in case our actual service is down."
"The solution is easy to use for anyone with minimal technical knowledge."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the performance and hibernation data options. Additionally, there is a feature that provides faster website access that is helpful."
"The users have nothing to worry about as the solution is well established."
"The versioning of this solution for accidental deletion has been most valuable."
"Amazon S3 is reliable."
"It's reliable and stable."
"This solution is good at storing historical data and we were using it for other purposes."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"The cost of using EBS is high compared to other cloud vendors such as Tencent Cloud or CARI Cloud. Some costs are generated immediately and some are likely to increase."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"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."
"We would like Amazon to reduce the price of storage."
"Amazon S3 could improve by providing some type of storage notification."
"The query size in Amazon S3 has room for improvement because it's limited. Querying on Amazon S3 is also expensive with Amazon Athena, so that's another area for improvement in the solution."
"If a certain resource is left unchecked, you can easily use a lot of it and drive up costs."
"I would like a batch downloading option added to the AWS console."
"The solution could improve by having a simpler way to have the detail size of a file in the CLI to be read or understood easier. Today, it's a little raw in the way the details are presented. You have to make some scripts and some modifications to be able to see the information properly of the size of a given bucket or the size of a file."
"The solution requires you to buy and use Amazon services."
"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Amazon S3 is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 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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