We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Google Cloud Storage Nearline based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"The product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"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."
"The data structure and the types of data that are supported are very good."
"The most valuable feature of Nearline is the access. It's helpful to move data that is generated once a month, such as salary information, to Nearline."
"The capacity and space on offer are excellent."
"It can isolate files and stop them from corrupting other files."
"Google is always introducing new features and tends to have a new release every month."
"Nearline is highly stable."
"It provides the necessary support and flexibility to manage data storage effectively, especially during times of variable data flow."
"I find the flexibility in storing documents or data and the ease of retrieval valuable with this solution."
"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."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The features could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Nearline security could be better. The solution could integrate better with SEIM tools."
"The pricing is quite high."
"The solution needs to offer better System Information and Event Management (SEIM). I'd like to discover how we could implement something like that within Google's cloud."
"The suggestion for improvement primarily revolves around cost efficiency."
"They need a better, more visual, user interface for folders and files."
"The UI could be a little bit more effective."
"They should provide more options or flexibility in terms of pricing."
"The interface for managing file storage in the buckets could be improved."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Google Cloud Storage Nearline is ranked 13th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 8 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Google Cloud Storage Nearline is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage Nearline writes "Provides APIs for everything and has good protection through encryption". Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is most compared with Microsoft Azure Block Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Oracle Cloud Object Storage, whereas Google Cloud Storage Nearline is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, Amazon S3, Wasabi, Microsoft Azure File Storage and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System). See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Google Cloud Storage Nearline report.
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