We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Dell ECS based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Amazon AWS seems to be the marginally superior solution. Our reviewers found Dell ECS’s supporting documentation to be incomplete.
"We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions."
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"The storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"Almost everything is good. It is a whole ecosystem. It is not only the storage, computing, or networking. It is interesting in the way all things are combined to form this ecosystem. It is a very well-built and logical ecosystem that has some small building blocks. These building blocks can be used in the right way to build a much bigger ecosystem that is robust, secure, scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"What I like best about Dell ECS is its stability. I also like that you can use it for large-scale data purposes. The solution works fine for me, and I haven't encountered any issues with it."
"The scalability is good."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"I'm not an expert on the product, but if I had to suggest one improvement, I know a feature that would allow a person to backup his on-premise solution to the cloud directly with one click would be useful. This solution should be agnostic because sometimes a product that was backed up with Veeam is highly compatible with Commvault. I think it would be better if these backup features were agnostic. Viewing a build could also be improved. It's not easy to follow up on your consumption and see how much you're paying and how much you will be paying. Viewing the build could be more clear."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"The usability of the solution could be a bit better."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"The disaster recovery could be improved because there should be something in-built within the ECS. Search and recovery should be in-built. Right now, we have to use some external tools for performing the recovery itself. For example, we're using Atempo or deploying Golden Superna, so it has dependency on the external third party vendors."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"Its security can be improved."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 164 reviews while Dell ECS is ranked 3rd in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Dell ECS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Flexible, scales well, and offers good stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Has load balancing facility, and good for unstructured data and DR". Amazon AWS is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Linode, SAP Cloud Platform, OpenShift and Google App Engine, whereas Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Hitachi Content Platform.
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