Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) Reviews

Amazon EBS is used as a block storage solution, particularly for high-performance computing, databases, data management, snapshots, and backups. It's especially beneficial for organizations needing consistent high-throughput performance, such as those handling large databases or analytics workloads.

Amazon EBS has significantly helped in cost savings and improving the overall performance of databases. It has allowed better data management, making the process easier and more efficient, and restored confidence in complete solutions.

The integration of Amazon EBS with EC2, S3, and Amazon Glacier is seamless and easy, creating a comprehensive cloud environment. The feature of encryption is particularly beneficial, providing a higher level of security. The solution is globally available and ensures high performance and reliability, which makes it valuable for organizations that require enhanced throughput and seamless data management capabilities.

There is a lack of awareness and knowledge about Amazon EBS among potential users, which results in underutilization. Additionally, there might be a lack of marketing highlighting the capabilities of EBS, which could improve its popularity and utilization.

I have been working with Amazon EBS for almost one and a half years.

On a longer-term basis, there are no stability issues with Amazon EBS. However, initially, there were minor connectivity issues, but they were resolved quickly and easily.

The scalability of Amazon EBS has positively impacted operations. It has helped database-heavy organizations improve performance and cost efficiency.

We did not require technical support from AWS for EBS.

Neutral

Amazon EBS provides significant time savings due to increased throughput and improves overall database performance.

The cost of Amazon EBS is slightly higher compared to other competitors, approximately five to ten percent higher. However, the benefits, including high performance and reliability, outweigh the costs, making it a cost-efficient option.

I do not have much experience with other block storage solutions outside of AWS.

For clients needing high database performance or involved heavily in analytics, Amazon EBS is highly recommended. However, for those not requiring high-performance database solutions or dealing with big data, it may not be necessary.

I would rate it a seven out of ten.

I primarily use Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) to host our cloud infrastructure on AWS. Currently, I'm using a disaster recovery solution, DRS, as the main stack. Additionally, I utilize several services inside AWS, such as EC2 instances, which are like virtual machines, and S3 buckets for storage.

Amazon EBS scalability allows for resource optimization and efficient infrastructure management, significantly impacting both our operations and those of our customers.

Amazon EBS is valuable because it allows you to store data permanently. It enables detachment from one virtual machine and reattachment to another EC2 instance. 

This feature ensures data portability, even if an EC2 instance is terminated since the EBS volume retains the same data and can be attached to a new instance. Additionally, it's scalable and allows for resizing, providing durability and high performance.

One area for improvement is the ease of scaling down the EBS volume. Having more flexibility in resizing, especially scaling down, would be beneficial. Automating the process of attaching a new volume to an existing EC2 instance would also be a valuable enhancement.

I have been using Amazon EBS for two to three years since I started my career in cloud computing.

I have not experienced any stability issues with EBS. It has been reliable so far.

Amazon EBS is highly scalable, allowing easy expansion of resources. It is straightforward to scale up, though more complex to scale down due to the need to migrate data to a new volume.

I have not had to escalate any issues to EBS technical support.

Positive

I have not worked with competitor solutions and have primarily been using AWS.

The initial setup process is quite straightforward, albeit slightly challenging, when adding a new EBS to an existing EC2 instance.

Amazon EBS offers measurable benefits such as increased capacity, scalability, and durability. It enhances infrastructure performance and ensures permanent data storage.

Pricing is reasonable if storage is utilized and optimized efficiently.

I haven't used solutions from competitors like Azure, Google, or Oracle.

I recommend not overutilizing or underutilizing your EBS storage. It's best to use what you need while leaving some room for backup. Additionally, new types of EBS volumes should be utilized for high performance and lower costs.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

If the instance memory is too high, we must attach EBS volumes. I use the solution to attach and detach volumes.

The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD. We can attach multiple attachments to EBS volumes and Elastic Volumes. The tool has many features. We can integrate EBS with the EC2 instances manually through the Amazon portal.

The initial setup is not easy.

I used the solution six months ago.

The tool is stable.

It is difficult for freshers to set up the tool. We must understand the purpose and the requirements before we do the setup.

I am using Azure Storage.

For EFS, we mount some storage for the EC2 instance. There are many features in VPC, like internet gateway and NAT gateway. I will recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

We use EBS Elastic Block Store for data storage.

EBS can handle Apex, which helps us manage many issues. EBS is easy to use and has high performance.

There are limitations in sharing resources across multiple regions and availability zones. I recommend improving EBS by introducing multi-availability zone support to enhance its functionality. 

I have been using EBS Elastic Block Store for one year.

I rate its stability an eight out of ten.

I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.

We've used Google Cloud Storage in addition to Amazon EBS.

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes around five seconds. I would rate it a nine out of ten. 

In terms of ROI, using Amazon EBS has helped save time and resources due to its ease of use and scalability.

I find the price reasonable for our environment. 

My advice for those considering Amazon EBS is to ensure proper configuration for optimal performance.

Overall, I would rate Amazon EBS an eight out of ten.

The tool's most valuable feature is reliability. 

I have been working with the product for more than a year. 

The tool's scalability is fine. 

My team is doing a good job, and I haven't contacted support yet. 

I rate the tool a six out of ten. It does what it is supposed to do and fits our needs. 

Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers. If you are using multiple things like applications and DB inside a server, it needs much storage. The storage dependency is configured with Amazon EBS.

We can directly attach any of the servers. Since the file systems of different operating systems, like Linux and Windows, are different, we cannot merge them. It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows.

Amazon EBS is a stable solution.

In our organization, we are using 50 to 70 servers and 10 to 50 RDS. Each and every database server has Amazon EBS.

The solution’s technical support is good.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

Users should use Amazon EBS if they are going to configure anything at the Amazon server level.

Overall, I rate Amazon EBS ten out of ten.

At our company, we use it for data storage. We work on Cloud Clusters, so we use EBS as the underlying storage.

The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes.

There are not many technical things that need improvement in EBS. It has a very long history and is AWS's first product. Its main flaw is the costliness.

I have been working with EBS for three years. 

EBS is stable. I have not seen any fluctuations when it comes to its stability. I would rate it a nine out of ten.

I would rate the scalability of EBS a nine out of ten.

I work with Amazon Web Service in the China region. I'm satisfied with how fast the technical team usually responds.

Positive

The initial setup is quite easy. I would give it a nine out of ten in terms of ease of use. It only takes a few minutes to deploy, sometimes even less.

We deploy EBS in two ways. One is on the AWS console where there are options to select from and we do that in a few clicks. Sometimes we create a virtual machine and then create EBS simultaneously because the AWS console provides options we can use. Another way is by using our own infrastructure as code/technology. We deploy EBS through our infrastructure codes, and then the EBS is deployed automatically. We have about 200 clients using EBS. Some of them are small, but most are enterprise businesses. 

The cost of using EBS is high compared to other cloud vendors such as Tencent Cloud or CARI Cloud. For example, the EBS standard storage and snapshot are relatively expensive. If we cannot maintain our snapshot policy in a good economic way, there will be extra costs. Some costs are generated immediately and some are likely to increase. If the price of snapshots keeps increasing, we might not be able to afford it anymore. In terms of costliness, I would rate it an eight out of ten.

My advice to people who are considering using EBS is to use the correct type according to your performance. If you want any additional features, you will have to pay more. You will need to deactivate or delete snapshots in order to avoid extra costs. You should monitor the performance as well. Overall, I would rate ETB an eight out of ten.

I am using Amazon EBS as a storage service.

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.

Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve.

I have been using Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) for approximately one year.

The stability of Amazon EBS is good.

Amazon EBS can scale up and down well.

I have not used the support from Amazon EBS.

I would recommend this solution to others, it is easy to use.

I rate Amazon EBS an eight out of ten.