AWS Application Migration Service vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.5, while NetApp is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 5.2% mindshare in CM, compared to NetApp’s 11.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

AWS Application Migration Service and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are solutions competing in cloud migration and management services. AWS Application Migration Service often has the upper hand due to its more affordable pricing and strong support options, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is chosen for its advanced feature set.

Features: AWS Application Migration Service offers automated cloud migration that reduces downtime, supports a variety of workloads, and provides right-sizing for compute instances. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides robust data management with advanced data protection, high availability, and SnapMirror for data mirroring and replication.

Room for Improvement: AWS Application Migration Service could improve its support for larger, more complex environments and add features for detailed migration planning. It might also benefit from better integration with non-AWS services. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP can work on simplifying its deployment process and reducing the complexity of its comprehensive features. Additionally, its user interface could be made more intuitive for new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AWS Application Migration Service is straightforward to deploy, benefitting from integration with other AWS offerings, creating a seamless user experience. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides a flexible deployment model, with multiple support options that may be advantageous, though potentially more complex to set up initially.

Pricing and ROI: AWS Application Migration Service offers low initial costs, making it appealing for enterprises focused on budget constraints and high returns on cloud migration investments. In contrast, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, requiring more significant upfront investments, targets enterprises with complex environments where its comprehensive feature set can deliver substantial ROI, particularly through efficient data management and protection capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Application Migration S...

Ranking in Cloud Migration

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Migration

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (1st), Cloud Backup (13th), Public Cloud Storage Services (8th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of AWS Application Migration Service is 5.2%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 11.9%, down from 16.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	11.9%
AWS Application Migration Service	5.2%
Other	82.9%

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Dieudonné-Nsabimana

Consultancy Manager at cidns

Integration with other services has improved migration efficiency

A valuable feature is the schema conversion tool, which allows me to migrate databases, for example, from Oracle to Postgres. The service is fully managed by AWS, which makes it better to use the migration services. It is beneficial to enable phased migration, and the service offers easy integration with other AWS services. The integration of AWS Application Migration Service with AWS makes it a good tool for working with AWS services.

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Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the live, block-to-block replication."

"AWS Application Migration Service allows us to perform migrations with minimal downtime, which is crucial for our operations."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"I rate AWS Application Migration Service a nine out of ten overall."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the solution's support a ten out of ten."

"The CloudEndure feature is most valuable because it is user friendly and very simple."

"Live Migration's best feature is that it's free."

"It gives a solution for storage one place to go across everything. So, the customer is very familiar with NetApp on-prem. It allows them to gain access to the file piece. It helps them with the training aspect of it, so they don't have to relearn something new. They already know this product. They just have to learn some widgets or what it's like in the cloud to operate and deploy it in different ways."

"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are good. Snapshot copies are pretty much the write-in time data backups. Obviously, critical data is snapshotted a lot more frequently, and even clients and end users find it easier to restore whatever they need if it's file-based, statical, etc."

"The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful."

"NetApp's Cloud Manager automation capabilities are very good because it's REST-API-driven, so we can completely automate everything. It has a good overview if you want to just have a look into your environment as well."

"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."

"Its features help us to have a backup of our volumes using the native technology of NetApp ONTAP. That way, we don't have to invest in other solutions for our backup requirement. Also, it helps us to replicate the data to another geographic location so that helps us to save on the costs of backup products."

"The good thing about NetApp is the features that are available on the cloud are also available on-premises."

"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."

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Cons

"The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps."

"I think it is important to have more logs, and more details would be great because we have just logged on the client's side, but there weren't many details on the cloud."

"We would like to have a disaster recovery feature included in this solution."

"There are some features in the Migration Factory that could be integrated directly into AWS Application Migration Service."

"I do not see any improvements required for the CloudEndure."

"One drawback to using CloudEndure is that the default is to give one small, lightweight server, which is created in the cloud."

"Live Migration has some issues with target setups."

"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."

"I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website."

"The only area for improvement would be some guidance in terms of the future products that NetApp is planning on releasing. I would like to see communication around that or advice such as, "Hey, the world is moving towards this particular trend, and NetApp can help you do that." I do get promotional emails from NetApp, but customer-specific advice would be helpful, based on our use cases."

"I would like to see more aggressive management of the aggregate space. On the Cloud Volumes ONTAP that we use for offsite backup copies, most of the data sits in S3. There are also the EBS volumes on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP itself. Sometimes what happens is that the aggregate size just stays the same. If it allocates 8 terabytes initially, it just stays at 8 terabytes for a long time, even though we're only using 20 percent of that 8 terabytes. NetApp could undersize that more aggressively."

"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."

"The solution is not stable when using single nodes. This is a problem. NetApp should work on this solution to make it more stable with HA nodes and resolve this issue."

"The product is more restricted with underlying cloud."

"In terms of improvement, I would like to see the Azure NetApp Files have the capability of doing SnapMirrors. Azure NetApp Files is, as we know, is an AFF system and it's not used in any of the Microsoft resources. It's basically NetApp hardware, so the best performance you can achieve, but the only reason we can't use that right now is because of the region that it's available in. The second was the SnapMirror capability that we didn't have that we heavily rely on right now."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For me, the price of the tool is cheap and very good. It is flexible pricing since you pay just for what you use."

"Live Migration's price is good."

"Some flexibility around the licensing model would help. The product is licensed based on capacity. Basically, the largest capacity license that you can buy is 368 terabytes. At this point, NetApp is addressing some people's concerns around this."

"The cost is quite high."

"They have a very good price which keeps our customers happy."

"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"The pricing of this solution is definitely higher than what the typical Azure Files and AWS solutions charge, but given the features and the stability NetApp has provided, we are okay with it. We are not complaining about the pricing."

"For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA."

"They allow a special price if you are working closely with them. Since we have a lot of NetApp systems, we got some kind of discount. That's something they do for other customers, not just for us. The price was fair. In addition to the licensing fees, you're paying Amazon for your usage..."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

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Manufacturing Company

16%

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16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	53

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudEndure Live Migration?

The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps. Furthermore, I noticed that performance can vary with the source and t...

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What is your primary use case for CloudEndure Live Migration?

For the moment, I am using AWS Application Migration Service for database migration. The first use case involves moving from on-premise to EC2 hosts. Additionally, I have worked with multi-region r...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudEndure Live Migration?

The service is not complicated; I find it easy to use. For those considering AWS Application Migration Service, the advice depends on their specific needs. If it involves database migration, especi...

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is actually quite reasonable in price compared to other native cloud storage options. For example, a customer using 100 TB of AWS storage would not benefit from deduplica...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP does have a bit of initial complexity for users who are new to the system. Although it isn't overwhelmingly complex, first-time users may find it challenging until they b...

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Also Known As

CloudEndure Live Migration

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

AWS Application Migration Service minimizes time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to run natively on AWS. It also simplifies application modernization with built-in and custom optimization options.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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