Amazon EBS offers features such as scalability, high performance, and affordability. Users appreciate its easy integration, durability, encryption, and backup options. They value snapshot capabilities, persistent storage, and seamless attachment/detachment to EC2 instances. EBS provides options for high IOPS, diverse volume types, and customization, making it suitable for demanding workloads, high throughput, vertical scaling, and data management. Its cost-effectiveness and versatility in supporting various server and application needs make it highly favored.
- "Overall, I would rate Amazon EBS ten out of ten."
- "Amazon EBS offers diverse features."
- "Amazon EBS is perfectly serving its purpose, and I absolutely recommend it to others."
Amazon EBS faces challenges with performance latency and high costs for improved capabilities. Ease of volume resizing and scaling is problematic, particularly in shrinking storage. Users have difficulty with initial setup and expanding volume sizes. Accessibility issues across multiple availability zones and high costs hamper user experience. AWS support and marketing awareness need enhancements. Intermittent reachability and lack of data immutability affect data durability, and there is a demand for improved scalability and auto-scaling features.
- "Amazon EBS is scalable, but not auto-scaling. I have to manually scale it, especially in Windows instances, which requires downtime."
- "If Amazon could add the auto-scaling feature that exists in RDS to the EBS volumes for EC2 or EKS, it would be beneficial."
- "There is a challenge of intermittent reachability with instances, where the product is sometimes available and other times not, which affects the development environment's stability."
