Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs Oracle Cloud Object Storage comparison

The compared Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 in CS , with an average rating of 8.2. Oracle is ranked #12 in PCSS , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EFS (Elastic File Sy...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (6th), File and Object Storage (9th)

Oracle Cloud Object Storage

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Public Cloud Storage Services (12th)

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Auto-scaling capabilities enhance file management while reducing downtime

The most valuable feature of Amazon EFS is its auto-scaling capability. It's really easy to configure EFS by just creating it and running a command to directly configure it with my servers. It supports unlimited use, and charges are applied based on the file usage at the end of the month. The solution offers reduced downtime and increased durability through its auto-scaling features.

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Jonatas Pereira

IT Infrastructure Manager at Lojas Renner SA

Useful for businesses to archive their information

I don't use the tool directly. Based on what my team says, from one to ten, if one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the product's initial setup phase as a nine. A technical person took care of the product's installation phase. The solution is deployed on the private and public clouds. The tool is majorly deployed on a private cloud. I use the cloud services from Microsoft Azure. The solution can be deployed in a period of two years. For deployment in the infrastructure, we had five people who are infrastructure specialists. About twenty people needed development, and the team consisted of analysts and specialists. For infrastructure, there were five people as specialists for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Though we use too much of Azure, OCI is the biggest product for our company. Azure is managed by a medium number of people. There are five people to take care of the clouds.

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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

"Elastic File Systems allow me to share data, provision, and manage capacity and performance in AWS."

"The most beneficial feature of the product for data storage stems from the fact that it serves as a shared file storage."

"The platform is highly scalable."

"The solution is scalable."

"Amazon EFS is extremely stable, as it is managed by AWS."

"The solution's technical support is good."

"We are not that big of a cloud user. We just use it for the storage of our bytes. The most valuable aspect is the storage."

"Elastic File Systems allow me to share data, provision, and manage capacity and performance in AWS."

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"The technical support for the solution was very nice."

"The most valuable features of the tool are scalability and security."

"One key feature is that you can make buckets private, requiring pre-authentication and using a specific URL for access. Additionally, the buckets are encrypted by default. The flexibility of public or private buckets and how you grant access are vital security features."

"The solution's most valuable features are its speed, unlimited space, and simplicity of use."

Cons

"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."

"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The main challenge with EFS is its cost, which is slightly higher compared to EBS or S3."

"The deployment is definitely not an easy process."

"It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to."

"Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS."

"There are challenges related to AWS, such as ensuring proper security measures with IMS code and encryption."

"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."

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"Oracle Cloud Object Storage needs to have an additional bucket for security."

"Cost-wise, it is not an affordable tool if you allocate space, and try to use it some other day."

"Sometimes, there are glitches with applying policies. Even when the policy is correct, it might not work consistently. We need to troubleshoot to see if it's a user error or if the policy itself needs adjustment. It usually works after refreshing, but that inconsistency is a minor complexity."

"The solution should provide more customization and the possibility of doing more manual tasks."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The main challenge with EFS is its cost, which is slightly higher compared to EBS or S3. For one GB or ten GB of data, S3 is much cheaper. EFS could cost around $30 to $50 per month for similar usage."

"I would rate the pricing 7 out of 10."

"The product's price depends on the services and the size and capacity at which it is used in a business environment."

"It has flexible pricing. You are charged based on your storage."

"Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) offers a pay-as-you-go model, so whenever you use its services, you need to pay."

"The solution's price is mid-ranged."

"The product charges are based on the amount of data stored."

"We have a yearly subscription for the product."

"Disaster recovery (DR) can be expensive."

"During the billing cycle, if I use the tool only for a day, I still need to pay you for a month."

"Oracle Cloud Object Storage might not be that expensive compared to on-premises solutions."

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Educational Organization

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Computer Software Company

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

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 Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)?

The product's initial setup phase is easy, as per the configurations.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)?

Elastic File Systems can be expensive due to the nature of data transfer costs, using services like SSTP, and potentially being costly in a rate-shift context.

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What do you like most about Oracle Cloud Object Storage?

The solution's most valuable features are its speed, unlimited space, and simplicity of use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Cloud Object Storage?

Cost-wise, it is not an affordable tool if you allocate space, and try to use it some other day. During the billing cycle, if I use the tool only for a day, I still need to pay you for a month. The...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Cloud Object Storage?

In my opinion, the tool's performance is very good. If Oracle can improve the tool's performance and make it better, then it would be good. There should be some kind of integration with other platf...

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Overview

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.

When mounted to Amazon EC2 instances, an Amazon EFS file system provides a standard file system interface and file system access semantics, allowing you to seamlessly integrate Amazon EFS with your existing applications and tools. Multiple Amazon EC2 instances can access an Amazon EFS file system at the same time, allowing Amazon EFS to provide a common data source for workloads and applications running on more than one Amazon EC2 instance.

It’s designed for high availability and durability, and provides performance for a broad spectrum of workloads and applications, including Big Data and analytics, media processing workflows, content management, web serving, and home directories.

Scale with no new hardware - eliminates new capital expenditures, opens up data center space and reduces power and cooling requirements.

Elastic storage - shared infrastructure allows for infinite scalability. Eliminates forecasting and long procurement cycles.

Pay as you go and subscription models - purchase capacity with no commitment or reduce costs with longer-term agreements

Simple to manage industry standard OpenStack and RESTful APIs streamline management integration, freeing resources to accelerate other cloud projects.

Sample Customers

Arcesium, Atlassian, Seeking Alpha, Zend

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