We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Box based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Google, Nasuni and others in Cloud Storage."The solution's technical support is good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"EFS is flexible."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"We are not that big of a cloud user. We just use it for the storage of our bytes. The most valuable aspect is the storage."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"The solution is scalable."
"File sharing with collaborators not on the same domain with offline access from multiple devices: I work on many projects that are multi-organizational, such as with customers, suppliers, or acquisitions."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"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."
"Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"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 lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"It could be cheaper."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 5th in Cloud Storage with 9 reviews while Box is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 37 reviews. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while Box is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) writes "Useful for storing details of projects and has an easy configuration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Google Cloud Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Azure NetApp Files, whereas Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Egnyte.
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