We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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 product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"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 solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"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."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"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."
"In Amazon EBS, it is difficult to reduce the space chosen by the customer. The cost increases the moment the size of the storage increases, and I will have to pay for two TB of the tool instead of one TB."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"The setup could be easier."
"The features could be improved."
"I think performance can be improved."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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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 IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". 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 IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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