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

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

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...

Ranking in Cloud Storage

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (10th), Public Cloud Storage Services (5th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

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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Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at Evolent Health

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

"I find it valuable for applications requiring high throughput or IOPS and mention its stability and performance as significant factors."

"The tool's most valuable feature is reliability."

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

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"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."

"The ability for our users to restore data from the Snapshots is very valuable."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of file storage."

"If you have a larger amount of data than normal in cloud, it is easy to provision and maintain. Waiting for the delivery of the controller, the configuration of enclosures, etc., all this stuff is eliminated compared to using on-premise."

"I like how you can easily pair on-prem with the cloud and the cloud backup feature. I like the whole integration with on-prem and the cloud for SnapMirror relationships."

"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."

"NetApp's Cloud Manager automation capabilities are very good because it's REST-API-driven, so we can completely automate everything. It has a good overview if you want to just have a look into your environment as well."

"With NetApp, you can integrate malware scanning or malware protection. This is something valuable that is not offered in SaaS solutions typically."

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Cons

"The features could be improved."

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

"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 setup could be easier."

"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."

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

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

"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."

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"I would like this solution to be brought to all the three major players. Right now it's supported only on AWS and Azure. They should bring it to Google as well, because we would like to have flexibility in choosing the underlying cloud storage provider."

"I rate the scalability a five out of ten."

"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."

"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"The DR has room for improvement. For example, we now have NetApp in Western Europe and we would like to back up the information to another region. It's impossible. We need to bring up an additional NetApp in that other region and create a Cloud Manager automation to copy the data... I would prefer it to be a more integrated solution like it was in the NetApp solution about a year ago. I would like to see something like AltaVault but in the cloud."

"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."

"NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP needs to have customizable pricing options such as 10 TB increments. They seem to have only two options: 10 TB or 250 TB."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is quite costly."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

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

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

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

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

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"You need to pay additional costs for support."

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"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was good, but it was a test system, not a real purchase."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

"The cost is quite high."

"It is expensive. There are no costs in addition to their standard licensing fees."

"The pricing could be improved. It is a good product, but it is very expensive for me."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

54%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

54%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

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...

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

The durability and snapshot capabilities are good.

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.

What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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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.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

Sample Customers

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