We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Microsoft Azure Block Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I appreciate Amazon's extensive range of services, which makes it a favorable choice."
"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."
"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 most beneficial feature of the product for data storage stems from the fact that it serves as a shared file storage."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"EFS is flexible."
"The product offers hierarchical storage and we like the main space storage with business."
"It has capabilities such as versioning and, from a security point of view, you can also back it up."
"It can scale."
"The ease of integration with services like CDN and computing makes it compelling and cost-effective."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The data lake is invaluable. We also use Microsoft SQL in terms of structuring the data and getting into a position where it could be useful to support reporting. We Databricks for data science. We incorporated Databricks with that as well."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage are it stores different types of data traditional data and connectivity through FTP. Additionally, we do not need a high-speed fetching system for operations and filesharing works well for us."
"Azure Block Storage has very good integration with the Microsoft suite, which helps a lot when creating a digital workspace."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"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."
"Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"The user activity needs to be more connected."
"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 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."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve the SFTP. The SFTP can be used for exchanging data between two parties and it works but Microsoft is new to this market and they could be a lot better in this area with its features."
"Data gathering features could be improved."
"Licensing costs are pretty high."
"The performance of Microsoft Azure Block Storage needs improvement because it's laggy. Microsoft Azure Block Storage also has a lot of limitations on file sizes. The rendering and loading times also need improvement."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage can improve the configuration to be more user-friendly."
"One thing that needs improvement is authentication. They need to improve the integrated Azure Active Directory for the enterprise level. For single sign-on, we can try any authentication or portal for Block Azure Function AKS. For example, if you're an administrator or user contributor, you will generate a token, then your internal middleware connects to any Azure Cloud service. You need to generate different credentials for each service. We cannot use the same token."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Storage with 9 reviews while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "Straightforward to set up and reliable with good features on offer". 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 Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Wasabi and Azure NetApp Files. See our Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs. Microsoft Azure Block Storage report.
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