Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.2% mindshare in CS, compared to NetApp’s 12.5% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

Amazon EBS and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP compete in the block storage solutions category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand due to its advanced features, although it is more expensive.

Features: Amazon EBS offers reliable performance, scalability, and security. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides data management capabilities like snapshots, clones, and data tiering.

Room for Improvement: Amazon EBS could benefit from improved data management features and a more intuitive control panel. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP needs enhanced integration capabilities and a simplified pricing structure.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon EBS is noted for its straightforward deployment process and excellent customer interaction. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, although slightly complex to set up, offers substantial support and documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon EBS is cost-effective with flexible pricing models and quick ROI. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, despite a higher upfront cost, provides significant long-term ROI through its extensive feature set.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...

Ranking in Cloud Storage

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (14th), Public Cloud Storage Services (6th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is 2.2%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 12.5%, down from 14.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Diverse features and affordability drive effective resource management

Amazon EBS offers diverse features. It can be used for multi-purpose storage, supporting single, multiple, or heavy loads. It has different types for various use cases, allowing me to choose based on my specific requirements. The primary advantage of Amazon EBS is affordability compared to other solutions like EFS or FSX. It acts as a hard drive for servers, making it essential for operation.

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Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Overall, I would rate Amazon EBS ten out of ten."

"Amazon EBS is valuable because it allows you to store data permanently."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."

"EBS is a very crucial tool as it acts like a hard disk on cloud, providing cost savings compared to physical hard disks, and only incurring costs based on actual usage."

"The most impressive aspects of Amazon EBS are its scalability and high availability."

"The platform is stable and can be replicated across different availability zones and data centers."

"Amazon EBS is perfectly serving its purpose, and I absolutely recommend it to others."

"If an instance is terminated abruptly or accidentally, I can reattach the volume to a different instance."

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"For us, the value comes from the solution's flexibility, speed, and hopefully cost savings in the long term."

"With NetApp, you can integrate malware scanning or malware protection. This is something valuable that is not offered in SaaS solutions typically."

"NetApp's XCP Migration Tool... was pretty awesome. It replicated the data faster than any other tool that I've seen. That was a big help."

"The main benefit we get from this product is the ability to deploy it anywhere we want, whether that's on-prem, a remote physical location, or in the cloud. It doesn't matter from an operational perspective where it is. The command line and operating system are the same."

"Its scalability is very good."

"The solution’s unified file and block-storage access across our infrastructure is invaluable. Without it, we can't do what we do."

"We're using snapshots as well and it's a pretty useful feature. That is one of the main NetApp benefits. Knowing how to use snapshots in the on-prem environment, using snapshots on the cloud solution was natural for us."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it makes our data readily available and we don't have to go through a lot of trouble to access it."

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Cons

"AWS services could improve by including services in the FreeTier, like Route 53 domains or SSL certificates."

"I do not have anything in mind for improvement at the moment."

"I feel that there are some concerns when it comes to the accessibility area of the product where improvements are required."

"I see a need for improvement in the scalability of Amazon EBS. If I need something more scalable, I rely on another storage solution like S3."

"I see a need for improvement in the scalability of Amazon EBS."

"The main challenge with Amazon EBS is cost management, as it is a high-performance volume. Sequencing and IOPS relative to cost are also areas of concern."

"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."

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"The key feature, that we'd like to see in that is the ability to sync between regions within the AWS and Azure regions. We could use the cloud sync service, but we'd really like that native functionality within the cloud volume service."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."

"I would like to have more management tools. They are difficult to work with, so I would like them to be a bit more user-friendly."

"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."

"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."

"The cost needs improvement."

"We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side... But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost can vary greatly depending on the use case, ranging from one dollar to over $1200 dollars per month."

"On a scale of one to ten, if one point is a cheap solution and ten points is very expensive, I rate the product price an eight."

"I find the price reasonable for our I environment."

"The solution is quite costly."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"The product is low-priced than other solutions."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high, I rate the price a seven."

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"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

"The cost is quite high."

"Cost is a big factor, because a lot of companies can't afford enterprise grade equipment all the time. They skimp where they can. I would recommend that they improve the cost."

"The pricing of this solution is definitely higher than what the typical Azure Files and AWS solutions charge, but given the features and the stability NetApp has provided, we are okay with it. We are not complaining about the pricing."

"They allow a special price if you are working closely with them. Since we have a lot of NetApp systems, we got some kind of discount. That's something they do for other customers, not just for us. The price was fair. In addition to the licensing fees, you're paying Amazon for your usage..."

"Cloud is cloud. It's still expensive. Any good solution comes with a price tag. That's where we are looking to see how well we can manage our data in the cloud by trying to optimize the costs."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

31%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

36%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Amazon's S3 Glacier or EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon's S3 Glacier or Elastic Block Store data storage software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Amazon's S3 Glacier, whi...

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What do you like most about Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

The durability and snapshot capabilities are good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

The cost of Amazon EBS storage is high. I rate the price as eight out of ten. It is expensive to store a lot yet provides significant cost-efficiency as I pay only for the storage time required.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Comparisons

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Compared 11% of the time

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability. Amazon EBS volumes offer the consistent and low-latency performance needed to run your workloads. With Amazon EBS, you can scale your usage up or down within minutes – all while paying a low price for only what you provision.

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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