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."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."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"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 product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"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 is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"The most valuable feature is the automated replication of the data."
"The multi-zone replication is great."
"Amazon S3 is a storage bucket service with good stability."
"The solution easily connects with the cloud, hardware, or other services to move data."
"Amazon S3's best features are its reliability and capacity to expand."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon S3 is its versioning feature. I also like that you can create pre-signed URLs on the solution."
"The stability is very good."
"Some of the most valuable features are how convenient and easy to use S3 is. It's nicely integrated with AWS and is available on the AWS console."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"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 is not easy."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"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 solution's cost should be improved."
"Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs."
"I would also like S3 to have the ability to do dynamic websites without the need to do reconfigurations outside of S3. You should be able to switch on dynamic websites in S3, and then it works. I shouldn't need to go elsewhere within Amazon Web Services to get a dynamic website to work."
"Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."
"The UI should be more user-friendly."
"No direct connector is available to connect Amazon S3 with other tools like MicroStrategy."
"Amazon S3 could improve some of the features, such as indexing, or we should have more information about all the data stored in a single place. This way we can see what data resides where instead of going in different buckets, file locations manually, or searching. An index would be nice, allowing us to directly go to a location to use the date."
"Maybe they need to expand their range of physical locations."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 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 Google Cloud Storage, 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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