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

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

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)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is 2.1%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 13.4%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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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

"It also supports encryption by default for added security."

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

"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."

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

"The most important feature is the volume types in those hundred EDS. For example, if you need a volume with high IOPS, you should choose an io2 or io2 Block Express volume type. The default volume type for EBS is GP3, which is a good balance of performance and price for most workloads."

"EBS is a very crucial tool as it acts like a hard disk on cloud, providing cost savings compared to physical hard disks, and only incurring costs based on actual usage."

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

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

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"They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."

"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are good. Snapshot copies are pretty much the write-in time data backups. Obviously, critical data is snapshotted a lot more frequently, and even clients and end users find it easier to restore whatever they need if it's file-based, statical, etc."

"It gives a solution for storage one place to go across everything. So, the customer is very familiar with NetApp on-prem. It allows them to gain access to the file piece. It helps them with the training aspect of it, so they don't have to relearn something new. They already know this product. They just have to learn some widgets or what it's like in the cloud to operate and deploy it in different ways."

"The most valuable features are that it's reliable, simple, and performs well."

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

"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."

"The stability has been really good."

"We're able to use the SnapMirror function and SnapMirror data from our on-prem environment into Azure. That is super-helpful. SnapMirror allows you to take data that exists on one NetApp, on a physical NetApp storage platform, and copy it over to another NetApp storage platform. It's a solid, proven technology, so we don't worry about whether data is getting lost or corrupted during the SnapMirror."

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Cons

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

"The setup could be easier."

"Regarding EBS, if an instance is terminated, the volume is also deleted, which leads to data loss."

"The main challenge with Amazon EBS is cost management, as it is a high-performance volume."

"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."

"The cost of using EBS is high compared to other cloud vendors such as Tencent Cloud or CARI Cloud. Some costs are generated immediately and some are likely to increase."

"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 features could be improved."

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"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."

"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."

"I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution."

"In terms of improvement, I would like to see the Azure NetApp Files have the capability of doing SnapMirrors. Azure NetApp Files is, as we know, is an AFF system and it's not used in any of the Microsoft resources. It's basically NetApp hardware, so the best performance you can achieve, but the only reason we can't use that right now is because of the region that it's available in. The second was the SnapMirror capability that we didn't have that we heavily rely on right now."

"If they could include clustering together multiple physical Cloud Volumes ONTAP devices as an option, that could be helpful."

"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."

"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."

"NetApp CVO needs to have more exposure and mature further before it will have greater acceptance."

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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."

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

"You need to pay additional costs for support."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

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

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

"The solution is reasonably priced."

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"The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately."

"If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp."

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

"It is not a cheap solution because we need to pay for the license and pay for Azure resources as well."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"The cost is quite high."

"Some flexibility around the licensing model would help. The product is licensed based on capacity. Basically, the largest capacity license that you can buy is 368 terabytes. At this point, NetApp is addressing some people's concerns around this."

"Compared to other storage vendors, NetApp, is not always able to compete with their pricing. Yet, we acknowledge the ease of use ONTAP brings with the AWS integration."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

52%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

55%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

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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)?

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.

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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Also Known As

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ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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)

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.

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Sample Customers

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