We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Amazon S3 Glacier, and Microsoft Azure Block Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Google, Nasuni and others in Cloud Storage."I appreciate Amazon's extensive range of services, which makes it a favorable choice."
"The most beneficial feature of the product for data storage stems from the fact that it serves as a shared file storage."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"EFS is flexible."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"Its elasticity and flexible pricing are the most valuable. For Amazon EFS, you are charged based on the storage. It is also very fast and stable with a very simple and intuitive interface."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The tool is simple to use and not very expensive."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a very cheap storage, where we store infrequently used data."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is an easy-to-use solution."
"The pricing is low, and it's dedicated to archiving is valuable to us."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"We use the solution for migration."
"The biggest advantage of the product is that AWS always copies the tool internally."
"The most important reason we use Azure Block Storage is the ability to store large files. When we were building the solution, we knew we needed to store images and video files that are 100 MBs or more. The second thing is speed when dealing with such large file sizes."
"One can easily scale with this program."
"The most helpful features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage are the many use cases. Additionally, it can be locked down well and has two-factor authentication."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is the backing up of files."
"The initial setup for the production areas was on premise, which is very simple."
"The tier feature in V2 is the most valuable feature of this solution. It enables you to move your storage from hot tier to cold tier into archive tier."
"The solution's most valuable feature revolves around the security-wise functionalities of the tool our company gets from using SAS keys."
"Data is securely stored."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"The user activity needs to be more connected."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"Around 80 percent of the features of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) are available on Linux and not in Windows, making it a major drawback of the product."
"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS."
"It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"There is room for improvement in handling GDPR compliance better. GDPR is about personal data protection and retention. It would be great if S3 Glacier could handle compliance items related to this, especially with upcoming legislation like the California law, which restricts data storage time and allows users to request data deletion."
"Although Amazon S3 Glacier is cheap, its data retrieval cost is very high compared to other solutions."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"The solution's cost optimization could be improved."
"The tool could be made cheaper."
"Amazon S3 Glacier's data retrieval time is slow compared to other AWS storage services and should be improved."
"I believe the usage reporting could be simplified, particularly for billing purposes. Overall, I find Amazon S3 Glacier's reporting system somewhat confusing compared to other hyperscalers in the market."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is more complex than Google Drive, but it is still not too difficult."
"The tool could be cheaper."
"There is a drawback or limitation to the GRS storage feature because depending on the amount of data, it could take a lot of time."
"The user interface is very difficult."
"If the documentation could be improved then it would be very good. Right now, if you face a question, you have to guess how it works or you have to test your hypothesis."
"We cannot properly check the daily cost in the Azure portal."
"There are capacity limitations that could be expanded."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve by allowing the switching of the hot tier to the cold tier."
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