Amazon EFS and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud cater to different user needs. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service edges out due to its feature-rich package, despite Amazon EFS being appreciated for pricing.
Features: Amazon EFS users value its scalability and integration with AWS services. Additional features include automatic capacity adjustments and seamless data transfers. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service users praise its performance and support for multiple protocols. Other notable features are advanced data management tools and robust security options.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EFS users wish for improved performance and cross-region capabilities. They also seek better data redundancy options. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service users seek better scalability and reduced latency. Suggestions include more intuitive user interfaces and enhanced automation features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon EFS is praised for straightforward deployment but has criticisms for slow customer support. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service users find deployment challenging but commend the prompt and helpful support. NetApp’s customer service is more favorably reviewed.
Pricing and ROI: Amazon EFS is considered cost-effective with satisfactory ROI. Pricing starts at $0.08 per GB-month for standard storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service is seen as pricey but features justify the expense, with prices starting around $0.20 per GB per month. NetApp offers better ROI due to its comprehensive capabilities.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.
When mounted to Amazon EC2 instances, an Amazon EFS file system provides a standard file system interface and file system access semantics, allowing you to seamlessly integrate Amazon EFS with your existing applications and tools. Multiple Amazon EC2 instances can access an Amazon EFS file system at the same time, allowing Amazon EFS to provide a common data source for workloads and applications running on more than one Amazon EC2 instance.
It’s designed for high availability and durability, and provides performance for a broad spectrum of workloads and applications, including Big Data and analytics, media processing workflows, content management, web serving, and home directories.
NetApp® Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud is a fully managed or self-managed file service that is integrated into Google Cloud with the multiprotocol support, performance, and availability required to run business-critical applications. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.
Use cases. Customers can use the service to migrate existing enterprise applications to Google Cloud. Other use cases include hybrid deployments, multicloud mobility, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, container storage, and more.
Features. Multiple performance tiers, standard file interfaces, advanced data management, metered service, fully managed service, native service experience, integrated support, and integrated billing.
For more information:
NetApp: https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes-service-for-gcp
Google: https://cloud.google.com/netapp
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