We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Google Cloud 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."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."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"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."
"Google Cloud Storage is fast, and it's scalable."
"The combination of Firebase features, including storage, the Firebase database, and authentication, has been the most valuable. Firebase offers Google authentication, which is convenient for our needs. Additionally, Firebase provides email authentication and Gmail authentication, which are easy to set up and integrate into our applications."
"It is seamlessly integrated with your Android. There’s no fuss, no hassle."
"I find the accessibility from various devices to be the most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage. I also like that it is integrated with Gmail and Google Groups."
"Google Cloud Storage's most valuable feature is the native algorithms are available. Some of the algorithms are not available for the use cases that we had in Microsoft Azure. We didn't find any native algorithms and that's the reason why we decided to use the machine learning algorithms in GCP."
"From a stability standpoint, the solution is excellent. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's easy to use."
"Everything I store in the solution is available on all of my devices."
"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 initial setup process is easy."
"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."
"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."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The features could be improved."
"Google Cloud Storage could improve by being more user-friendly."
"They need more enhancements in the security features."
"An area for improvement is that when you share with others, they can see all your folders instead of just those you share. Only the folders you specifically share should be visible."
"Additional cost for more storage"
"Google Cloud Storage could improve by having better integration with Microsoft Office files. When I open a Google document I would like it to be able to be opened with Microsoft. You can already open Google documents in Microsoft Office."
"They need to get some parts of the program more mature, like the admin management part as well as the monitoring part."
"The solution is good, however, it would benefit from increased storage without the additional cost."
"A lower cost, lower-end solution for a shared file system is missing."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Google Cloud Storage is ranked 2nd in Cloud Storage with 66 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Google Cloud Storage 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 Google Cloud Storage writes "Flexible, reliable, and beneficial for small sized companies". 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 Google Cloud Storage is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, AT&T Cloud Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Microsoft Azure File Storage. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Google Cloud Storage report.
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