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

The compared Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #9 in CS , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 2.1% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #4 in PCSS , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 10.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Microsoft Azure File Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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)

Microsoft Azure File Storage

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Public Cloud Storage Services (4th)

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.
Microsoft Azure File Storage, on the other hand, focuses on Public Cloud Storage Services, holds 10.8% mindshare, down 13.3% since last year.

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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.

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PrashanthR

Lead Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Seamlessly streamlines document processing with advanced file storage and OCR integration

We need to store data over there. We process documents through Kofax Time is a major benefit, as well as ease of processing. With configuration, it happens quite easily, and we can finish tasks early. File storage is complemented by OCR with Azure Cognitive Service. This enhances the processing…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"If an instance is terminated abruptly or accidentally, I can reattach the volume to a different instance."

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

"I rate the overall solution ten out of ten."

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

"I think everything is great."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."

"The main advantage is the ability to scale up and scale down easily without any downtime."

"The product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."

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"It was quick to synchronize back from Azure to the on-premise server."

"What I like about Microsoft Azure File Storage is its convenience for customers, cost-effectiveness, and high availability."

"I like that Microsoft Azure File Storage works fine and is quick to deploy. It's also easy to connect to it, particularly when connecting it with my on-premise file servers."

"The biggest advantage of Azure File Storage vis-à-vis other public cloud storage providers, and why we recommend Azure first and foremost, is that many of our customers have partnerships with Microsoft and so they have access to better cloud economics. Compared to AWS, we have found that (from a customer perspective) Azure is much more competitive."

"Its most valuable features are speed and security."

"It is very easy to use SSTP and some traditional code to move the data into a database because we can easily use the permissions and we don't have any integration or conversion issues."

"Implementations with other products are easy."

"This solution supports all file formats."

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Cons

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

"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."

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

"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."

"Amazon EBS could improve by offering immutability of the data."

"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."

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"The transparency of cost should be improved."

"Azure File Storage's stability is okay, but sometimes we have trouble with the link to the Azure VPN disconnecting."

"It's a bit complex to set up. Other than that, there is nothing to improve."

"They can improve the ability to assign permissions to different groups or users."

"Some chunking logics need to be better to address issues with processing bigger files. It should allow better methods for handling large files."

"Microsoft Azure File Storage needs more integrations. In the future, I also want to see GRC added to the portal. If you enroll or sign up for Azure services, your country may not have GRC available in the portal, so you may have to choose a strange country, for example, Kenya, to activate credit."

"One thing that Azure File Storage could help us with is some kind of impact assessment. When we talk to some of our larger customers who have between 500 and 1,000 applications, we normally do an assessment of all these applications and then tell them which ones are ready to be lifted and shifted, and which ones need to re-architected. It would really help if Azure File Storage could come up with a better way to give estimations of the total investment required, including all costs incurred during the migration."

"I would like to see more updates around File Storage."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You need to pay additional costs for support."

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

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"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."

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

"The solution is reasonably priced."

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

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

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"We have Microsoft Azure File Storage's enterprise license."

"The pricing could be more flexible."

"For one terabyte of data, we are spending about 150 Euro every month."

"Microsoft Azure File Storage is expensive."

"I give the pricing of the solution a seven out of ten."

"The pricing is usually dependent on your storage requirements. Overall, I believe Microsoft Azure File Storage's price is reasonable."

"I think the pricing of the product can be reduced."

"The price of Microsoft Azure File Storage is expensive, we do not know exactly how the price is calculated."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

52%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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)?

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.

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Which file storage system is better - Amazon EFS (elastic file storage) or Azure File Storage?

Amazon EFS is easy to set up: you can use the AWS management console, API, or command-line. Amazon EFS can grow to petabytes and deliver consistent low latencies and high levels of throughput. This...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Azure File Storage?

The product is a reliable cloud solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure File Storage?

The price is almost the same as the competition. I would rate it three or three and a half out of ten on the pricing scale.

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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 Web Services (AWS)

Fully managed file shares that use the standard SMB 3.0 protocol

Key scenarios:

Share data across on-premises and cloud servers
Migrate file share-based applications to the cloud with no code changes
Integrate modern applications with File storage
Simplify hosting for high availability workload data

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