We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Google Drive Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Google, Nasuni and others in Cloud Storage."When I have to change the operating system or delete a host, I can store the data in EBS or assign it to another host."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"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 product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is backup...Amazon EBS is a very good product since it is very easy to enhance or increase and migrate your servers immediately, in a matter of seconds."
"Accessing their services is simple, user-friendly, and does not require a lot of technology."
"Though I don't see a major difference between Google Drive Enterprise and other competitors, I find that the solution is easy to use. You just need to connect to it and upload files and give access to users who need access to the files. It's very easy to manage files and share files on Google Drive Enterprise, and these are its most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Google Drive is its seamless integration across mobile devices and computers."
"There's no real implementation necessary."
"It's a stable product."
"I'm satisfied with the basic function. it's convenient to share documents or download shared documents you need."
"The program is very stable."
"Low maintenance solution."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"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."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"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."
"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"The product lacks in the area of documentation."
"Security-wise, Google Drive Enterprise needs improvement. Compared to its competitor: Kiteworks, Google Drive Enterprise is less secure."
"Considering things like speech recognition or enhanced benefits in Google Cloud could be worth exploring for a better experience."
"The only thing that's really been annoying is the single file size limit."
"Lacks scalability and security."
"I would like to see better integration with Google Docs, the Google landscape in general, and other environments."
"I have sometimes observed that when the data is very huge or there are so many rules, Google Sheets documents get stuck while uploading. It keeps on loading the document and gives an error. There should be an improvement in this aspect. It should be quick. Currently, we have to wait for a long time."
"It's become difficult to fit everything in one window."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Google Drive Enterprise is ranked 7th in Cloud Storage with 53 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Google Drive Enterprise 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 Google Drive Enterprise writes "Easy to set up with simple file access and very reliable". 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 Google Drive Enterprise is most compared with Google Workspace, Citrix ShareFile, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox and LucidLink.
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