We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Microsoft Azure Block Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"The most important feature is the volume types in those hundred EDS. For example, if you need a volume with high IOPS, you should choose an io2 or io2 Block Express volume type. The default volume type for EBS is GP3, which is a good balance of performance and price for most workloads."
"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 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 solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"The product comes with multiple central port installations like gp2 and gp3."
"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."
"The setup is straightforward."
"It is easy to integrate with applications."
"Azure Block Storage has very good integration with the Microsoft suite, which helps a lot when creating a digital workspace."
"Its integration is very easy."
"We can use Azure Block Storage for some of our bigger files."
"One can easily scale with this program."
"The initial setup for the production areas was on premise, which is very simple."
"This is a very robust and flexible solution."
"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."
"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 better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"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."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"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."
"The setup could be easier."
"The product data encryption feature needs improvement."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve by having integration with Amazon AWS. The file transfer could be easier."
"The solution could have better archival policies and localization of data."
"It has been a couple of years since I contacted support. However, at that time, it was difficult to get someone on the call even though it was an issue of high severity."
"We don't delete the other tools from the folder directly. There's no folder deletion option in Azure Block Storage. It would be nice if they could update this."
"Customer support could be improved, it can be difficult getting appropriate support."
"The folder search capabilities are not really up to par."
"There are capacity limitations that could be expanded."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve the SFTP. The SFTP can be used for exchanging data between two parties and it works but Microsoft is new to this market and they could be a lot better in this area with its features."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 15 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 51 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "Straightforward to set up and reliable with good features on offer". Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is most compared with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier, Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Google Cloud Storage, whereas Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Wasabi, Microsoft Azure Object Storage and Google Cloud Storage Nearline. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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