We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Google Workspace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Google, Nasuni and others in Cloud Storage."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's technical support is good."
"EFS is flexible."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is scalable."
"I appreciate Amazon's extensive range of services, which makes it a favorable choice."
"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."
"Good performance, even on relatively slow connections; no local apps required."
"The solution offers a workflow where we can collaborate and share documents. Its most valuable features are Gmail and Google Drive. Google Drive is great for file collaboration. It improves productivity. The product is on the cloud; we don't have to connect to the office through a VPN."
"There are several online forums and a lot of support materials online."
"I think it is a great subscription for me. I think it is important, especially when making an internal email subscription. For example, I can easily create my colleague's email address, and we can use it. I benefited from G Suite. I am using the G Suite Drive, which provides 30GB of storage, and it is helping for me. I think it's better for me."
"Being able to back up our data on Google Drive is a critical and valuable feature for our customers. It is just in sync. Imagine you change a file on the desktop, and it gets updated directly to your Google Drive. Our laptop is completely in sync with Google Drive. Google Meet, Google Sheets, and Google Docs are also amazing products. They're very versatile and easy to use as compared to Office 365. I am using Google Sheets and Google Docs, which first save the work on my memory or ROM, and then on my RAM. It gives me better productivity through Google Sheets and Google Docs."
"I use Keep to assign tasks to a team of programmers, which is very easy."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The features we use quite a lot are the mail and Google Drive. We can store documents and share documents between both employees here, locally in Sweden, and we have an office in the US as well. It's a very easy way to share information and documents, and have online meetings and stuff with Google Meet. We use it quite a lot."
"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."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"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."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"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 user interface, especially on Google Drive, could be better."
"For Google Docs, if you upload a Word document up to Google Docs, it could mess up your formatting quite a bit."
"There seems to be a bit of vulnerability on some operating systems, specifically on the iPhone. There isn't as much control as if a person is using an Android. That's a bit of a concern."
"They could increase the number of third-party integrations on offer."
"The performance speed could be improved when the internet connection is slow."
"With the Internet of Things, a platform that integrates well with others would be even better."
"I don't recommend Google Workspace to others. It's expensive. Also, Google doesn't have enough oversight on their partners, so you will face some difficulties dealing with them instead of directly with Google."
"Some concerns over security, but there are moves to address this and provide admin tools to secure content and adhere to data protection regulations."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 5th in Cloud Storage with 9 reviews while Google Workspace is ranked 6th in Cloud Storage with 92 reviews. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while Google Workspace 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 Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". 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 Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, ProtonMail and Google Cloud Storage.
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