We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Dropbox 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."
"EFS is flexible."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The solution is scalable."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"The security is very good."
"A valuable feature is that it's useful for exchanging large files and documents. I'm happy with it."
"The product's most valuable feature is storage."
"I use the product to open files."
"The small business version gave us ample capacity."
"I can edit my files online, and I like the comments option."
"Dropbox's most valuable features are ease of use and performance."
"The way the tool is designed and using the tool itself is quite transparent."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"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."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The user activity needs to be more connected."
"Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The solution could provide more capacity for free."
"Dropbox can improve by enhancing the capacity of storage in the free version."
"The solution could be better integrated with other platforms."
"The price for storage space is a little expensive."
"Dropbox needs to increase its storage."
"I cannot edit a document at the same time as another user."
"Dropbox, like many file sharing tools, needs to synch to a local hard drive. That is a bit difficult with 5TB Dropbox content."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 5th in Cloud Storage with 9 reviews while Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 83 reviews. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while Dropbox is rated 8.2. 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 Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". 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 Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Office 365.
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