We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Nasuni, Google and others in Cloud Storage."The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"Amazon EBS is a storage system, and the storage is attached to the servers."
"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 most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"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."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"The product’s most valuable feature is IOPS."
"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"The features could be improved."
"The cost of using EBS is high compared to other cloud vendors such as Tencent Cloud or CARI Cloud. Some costs are generated immediately and some are likely to increase."
"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 would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"The setup could be easier."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"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."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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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 IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". 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 IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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