We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Box based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Google, Nasuni and others in Cloud Storage."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."
"One of the most valuable was snapshots. There were scenarios in which the whole EC2 crashed, or we were unable to use it for some time, but the data on the mounted volumes were crucial to us. So, at that time, snapshots were very helpful."
"The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves. Basically, we're concerned about what information is being sent to Box, so we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate. If it is not appropriate, it is not allowed to be sent. It is also pretty easy to use. It is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"I think performance can be improved."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"It would be good if the solution added a button to increase the size and make the EC2 machine recognize the increased capacity of the EBS."
"The setup could be easier."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Box is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 37 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Box is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is most compared with Microsoft Azure Block Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier, Oracle Cloud Object Storage and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), whereas Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Egnyte.
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