Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs Amazon S3 Glacier comparison

The compared Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Amazon S3 Glacier solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked #9 in CS , with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked #2 in PCSS , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 17.4% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Amazon S3 Glacier users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Amazon S3 Glacier based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

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Cloud Storage (9th)

Amazon S3 Glacier

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

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Public Cloud Storage Services (2nd)

Featured Reviews

RamKumar Chinnu

Cloud , DevOps Engineer at NCS Group

Effortless disk expansion enhances EC2 efficiency with a straightforward setup

In a traditional setup, if you want to add a disk to legacy systems, you need to purchase, find the hardware vendor, and insert it, which is a lengthy procedure. With Amazon EBS, if you want to add an additional disk to an EC2 instance, you can simply attach an EBS volume by clicking through a few options, and it's done.

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Alan Bloor

Geographic Information System Developer at Public Sector

A powerful hosting service with an extensive code interface

Their pricing structure is always a big topic. It's so difficult to understand. I had a personal account once, and I was so scared to type in my credit card because I wasn't sure how much I would be charged. At home, I might turn on the VM to test something, and I might be on there for three minutes wondering how much it could cost. The solution might tell you there are so many hours of free usage and a free VM, but it's still scary because you don't know how much it will cost, even if you go over one second. The price structure needs massive simplifying and made crystal clear so people know what they're paying.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that during the deployment, the tool indirectly provides our company with resources for our core side and cloud-based resources."

"The most impressive aspects of Amazon EBS are its scalability and high availability."

"I don't need to delete or remove everything from an EBS when terminating an instance."

"The most impressive aspects of Amazon EBS are its scalability and high availability."

"One of the most valuable was snapshots. There were scenarios in which the whole EC2 crashed, or we were unable to use it for some time, but the data on the mounted volumes were crucial to us. So, at that time, snapshots were very helpful."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."

"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."

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

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"The solution’s storage management is good and dynamic. The product is highly stable. The solution is highly scalable. The customer service and support is good. The initial setup is straightforward. I recommend the solution."

"The product automatically replicates objects from a S3 bucket in one region to another bucket in a different region."

"Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."

"Amazon S3 Glacier can integrate seamlessly with other AWS services."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."

"We like that the price is cheaper."

"We get free credits from Amazon, and we like the overall stability. We haven't had to rely heavily on their customer success teams, which is a good sign."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a scalable and easy-to-manage solution with good read-write capability."

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Cons

"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."

"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."

"I think performance can be improved."

"Having more flexibility in resizing, especially scaling down, would be beneficial."

"I do not have anything in mind for improvement at the moment."

"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."

"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."

"There is a lack of awareness and knowledge about Amazon EBS among potential users, which results in underutilization."

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"The user experience must be improved."

"The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved."

"The product is difficult to use."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cheaper tool if you're running it on-prem, but it is expensive if deployed on the cloud."

"The technical support has room for improvement."

"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."

"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."

"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"What I want Amazon to do is lower the price."

"The product is low-priced than other solutions."

"On a scale of one to ten, if one point is a cheap solution and ten points is very expensive, I rate the product price an eight."

"I find the price reasonable for our I environment."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high, I rate the price a seven."

"The pricing models may be for general purposes, such as Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume or Amazon EBS Cold HDD Volumes."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"You need to pay additional costs for support."

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"The product is very cheap."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is very cheap, but the cost becomes a concern when you have a very large amount of data."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"The pricing must be improved."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a cost-effective solution for archiving."

"The tool is too expensive."

"Amazon S3 Glacier has a good pricing point, and you pay for what's being used."

"Customers prefer Amazon S3 Glacier because it is a cheap and pay-as-you-go solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

54%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

34%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

University

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Amazon's S3 Glacier or EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon's S3 Glacier or Elastic Block Store data storage software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Amazon's S3 Glacier, whi...

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What do you like most about Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

The durability and snapshot capabilities are good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

In terms of pricing, Amazon EBS is not expensive. The pay-for-what-you-use model justifies the amount paid, with no extra or hidden charges.

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What do you like most about Amazon S3 Glacier?

I like creating buckets where data can be segregated at a high level and then routing the appropriate data to each designated bucket. In terms of value, I would say that the tool gets the job done ...

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What needs improvement with Amazon S3 Glacier?

I would like to see improvements in the transfer rate as it takes quite a long time to retrieve data from Glacier compared to standard S3 storage. Additionally, improvements in configuration manage...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon S3 Glacier?

Amazon S3 Glacier is primarily used for archiving data. We use it for long-term data storage, especially in industries that require data to be kept for extensive periods, like financial sectors and...

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability. Amazon EBS volumes offer the consistent and low-latency performance needed to run your workloads. With Amazon EBS, you can scale your usage up or down within minutes – all while paying a low price for only what you provision.

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.007 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.

Sample Customers

Bazaar Voice, Crowd Strike, Adobe, Gamevil, Hess, CopperEgg, TotalJobs Group, SuperCell, Dropcam, Unilever

King Cpunty, Illumina, Backupify, Nearmap.com, Scribd, Baylor College of Medicine, SoundCloud

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