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 8.7, and holds a 2.1% mindshare in the category. 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.

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...

Read 33 Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) reviews

395 Views
240 Comparison Views

96% willing to recommend

Amazon S3 Glacier

Read 39 Amazon S3 Glacier reviews

4,392 Views
3,736 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...

Amazon S3 Glacier

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Amazon S3 Glacier 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Amazon S3 Glacier Report (Updated: March 2024).

Buyer's Guide

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

March 2024

Download the complete report

Helped 838,713 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (9th)

Amazon S3 Glacier

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Public Cloud Storage Services (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is designed for Cloud Storage and holds a mindshare of 2.1%, up 1.9% compared to last year.
Amazon S3 Glacier, on the other hand, focuses on Public Cloud Storage Services, holds 17.4% mindshare, up 15.3% since last year.

Cloud Storage

Public Cloud Storage Services

Featured Reviews

MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Diverse features and affordability drive effective resource management

Amazon EBS offers diverse features. It can be used for multi-purpose storage, supporting single, multiple, or heavy loads. It has different types for various use cases, allowing me to choose based on my specific requirements. The primary advantage of Amazon EBS is affordability compared to other solutions like EFS or FSX. It acts as a hard drive for servers, making it essential for operation.

Read full review

Deepak Nagar

Manager, Strategic Alliances at Softcell Technologies Limited

A scalable, flexible, and user-friendly solution that is easy to maintain and handle

The solution's initial setup is straightforward and not complex. In the initial legacy, we used to put our servers in our data centers, look for storage, and give a path to that storage. In Amazon S3 Glacier, you can directly put your credentials for the portal login and upload your data.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"One of the features I appreciate about EBS is its persistent storage nature."

"I would recommend Amazon EBS to other people."

"The integration of Amazon EBS with EC2, S3, and Amazon Glacier is seamless and easy, creating a comprehensive cloud environment."

"If EBS is attached to an EC2 instance, it allows secure document storage."

"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."

"The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."

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

"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."

More Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) pros

"It is the most feature-rich platform."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly stable solution."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"We use the solution for migration."

"The solution is stable."

"The deployment process was straightforward."

"We save money with the product."

"The solution is great for storing data you don't usually need access to. It's also well-integrated with Amazon S3."

More Amazon S3 Glacier pros

Cons

"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."

"AWS services could improve by including services in the FreeTier, like Route 53 domains or SSL certificates."

"The initial setup process is easy."

"The main challenge with Amazon EBS is cost management, as it is a high-performance volume. Sequencing and IOPS relative to cost are also areas of concern."

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

"The features could be improved."

"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 setup could be easier."

More Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) cons

"The solution’s deployment process is complex and could be improved."

"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."

"The response times could be faster. When you are with Amazon and use Glacier, you expect a response time between four to seven hours to retrieve the data."

"Billing issues can be a nightmare. It's tough reaching the right person to get them sorted out."

"The solution's pricing is too expensive and could be improved."

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

"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."

"The stability must be improved."

More Amazon S3 Glacier cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The solution is quite costly."

"The cost can vary greatly depending on the use case, ranging from one dollar to over $1200 dollars per month."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

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

"You need to pay additional costs for support."

"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."

More Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is average and reasonable. It varies depending on the region."

"The product is very cheap."

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

"The tool is too expensive."

"Amazon S3 Glacier is not an expensive solution, and it has a pay-as-you-go pricing model."

"We pay a monthly licensing fee for Amazon S3 Glacier."

"There is no license, you pay for what you use."

"The pricing must be improved."

More Amazon S3 Glacier pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Storage solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

838,713 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

54%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

34%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

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...

See all answers

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

The durability and snapshot capabilities are good.

See all answers

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

The cost of Amazon EBS storage is high. I rate the price as eight out of ten. It is expensive to store a lot yet provides significant cost-efficiency as I pay only for the storage time required.

See all answers

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 ...

See all answers

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...

See all answers

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...

See all answers

Comparisons

Microsoft Azure Block Storage vs Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

Compared 57% of the time

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

Compared 43% of the time

More Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) Competitors

Google Cloud Storage Nearline vs Amazon S3 Glacier

Compared 54% of the time

Google Cloud Storage vs Amazon S3 Glacier

Compared 15% of the time

Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs Amazon S3 Glacier

Compared 8% of the time

Wasabi vs Amazon S3 Glacier

Compared 8% of the time

Microsoft Azure File Storage vs Amazon S3 Glacier

Compared 7% of the time

More Amazon S3 Glacier Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

February 2025

Download Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) product report

Buyer's Guide

Amazon S3 Glacier

February 2025

Download Amazon S3 Glacier product report

Also Known As

No data available

Amazon Glacier

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 Web Services (AWS)

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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

Buyer's Guide

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

March 2024

Free Report: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Amazon S3 Glacier

Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Amazon S3 Glacier and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.

DOWNLOAD NOW

838,713 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Amazon S3 Glacier report.

We monitor all Cloud Storage reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.