We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."The initial setup was straightforward."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy, as per the configurations."
"The solution is scalable."
"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 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."
"EFS is flexible."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"The most valuable features are that MinIO is open, it works on-premise, and is compatible with the Amazon industry which is great for finding compatible libraries in many languages which is very good for developers."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"The container installation features are good. The S3 feature provisions the storage buckets making it easy. It allows me to spin up the public buckets with open-source technology."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"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."
"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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 interface seems strange and complicated."
"The product's stability has some shortcomings where improvements are required."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The scalability is one of the limitations we have found. We are looking for another solution but they must provide the same characteristics, such as an affordable price and continuity."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 9th in File and Object Storage with 10 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) writes "Offers integration capabilities that improve areas like storage and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". 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 MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Cloudian HyperStore.
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