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 #6 in CS , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 2.5% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #4 in PCSS , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 10.0% mindshare. Additionally, 97% 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

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (6th)

Microsoft Azure File Storage

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

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 2.5%, up 2.0% compared to last year.
Microsoft Azure File Storage, on the other hand, focuses on Public Cloud Storage Services, holds 10.0% mindshare, down 13.6% 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

"EBS is a cost-effective solution, where I pay as I go, making it a favorable option."

"The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."

"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."

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

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

"Amazon EBS is perfectly serving its purpose, and I absolutely recommend it to others."

"I would recommend Amazon EBS to other people."

"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."

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"Azure File Storage gives us easy access to cloud solutions at the storage level."

"The most valuable aspect of Azure File Storage is that all the features are available in one place."

"We have not explored the desktop performance analysis of the file storage, but the user interface, API, and the response that we receive over the file storage are very good. We have a lot of customers that connect to the client-side, click the images, and upload them. The beauty of the solution is that we can mount the file storage into a critical server as well as an external drive. The speed that we receive with the images is pretty good."

"The solution can scale to fit any requirement."

"Its most valuable features are speed and security."

"Implementing Microsoft Azure has meant that we are using the same solution as our customers who use Azure Public Cloud. This allows us to integrate our application, as well as provide the solution to them."

"I recommend Microsoft Azure File Storage for medium and above-sized companies."

"The tool offers a secure way to access storage. You can also easily share the files securely across Azure."

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Cons

"The features could be improved."

"Amazon EBS is scalable, but not auto-scaling. I have to manually scale it, especially in Windows instances, which requires downtime."

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

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

"There is a concept called Snapshot, which is a backup of the entire EBS volume, however, the cost is quite high."

"I see a need for improvement in the scalability of Amazon EBS."

"Implementing more AI-based capabilities could enhance the service."

"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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"It would be helpful if we could remove data that we don't frequently access to reduce the cost of the storage."

"The integration of the site storage with SQL was not completely seamless."

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

"There is room for improvement in helping customers understand and integrate Azure File Storage into their operations."

"It would be good if they added some features that make the solution easier to access for everyone."

"The tool needs to add more controls and enhance Power BI. For instance, I'm just suggesting the visualization layer. Power BI can increase visualization as much as possible, and the product can add more controls to the data flows."

"The upload speed has room for improvement."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"You need to pay additional costs for support."

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

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"The solution is quite costly."

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

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

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"The licensing cost for Microsoft Azure File Storage comes with an agreement from Microsoft."

"One needs to pay according to the storage they plan to use in the solution. The payments are to be made yearly. It is usually monthly, but we opted for yearly subscriptions in our company."

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

"Microsoft Azure File Storage is expensive."

"One of the major benefits for AWS is that they have a very large customer representative base where clients can be picked from, they offer large discounts and credit. We were not able to receive the same kind of offers from Microsoft Azure File Storage. We tried to approach Azure while hiring for our disaster recovery discussion, but we didn't receive anything from Azure."

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

"We pay for both yearly and monthly licenses. The yearly one is cheaper than the monthly one."

"The product's pricing need improvement."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

19%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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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...

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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 pricing for Microsoft Azure File Storage is five out of ten, not so expensive and not so low.

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Comparisons

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Compared 24% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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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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Sample Customers

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

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