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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs. Azure Blob Storage

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    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) from AWS is designed for application workloads that benefit from fine tuning for performance, cost and capacity. Typical use cases include Big Data analytics engines (like the Hadoop/HDFS ecosystem and Amazon EMR clusters), relational and NoSQL databases (like Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL or Cassandra and MongoDB), stream and log processing applications (like Kafka and Splunk), and data warehousing applications (like Vertica and Teradata).N/A

    Azure Blob Storage

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Blob Storage system on Azure is designed to make unstructured data available to customers anywhere through REST-based object storage.

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    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure Blob Storage
    Editions & Modules
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    Block Blobs
    $0.0081
    per GB/per month
    Azure Data Lake Storage
    $0.0081
    per GB/per month
    Files
    $0.058
    per GB/per month
    Managed Discs
    $1.54
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure Blob Storage
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure Blob Storage
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    So far I have only used Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Azure but comparatively [I] prefer AWS elastic Block store as its having more advantages than Azure and I found it quite satisfactory and it helped a lot for information storage. We are not looking for any other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    Basically, we choose EBS because we are using AWS, we have already evaluated 3 cloud providers AWS, GCP, and azure. And we decided to use AWS because of some elements. Mostly because AWS has a native Linux operating system (amazon Linux).
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    The reason I selected Amazon Elastic block store is because of their fast and quick response, a wide variety of services that can be easily available on a single platform. Easy integration with different platforms through APIs, security, pay as you go, service on demand, and …
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
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    Best Alternatives
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure Blob Storage
    Small Businesses
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    Google Cloud Storage
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Azure Data Lake Storage
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Google Cloud Storage
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure Blob Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (20 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure Blob Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It provides the optimized storage performance and cost for your workload and these options really work with SSD-backed storage and it improves the database performance. Keeping backups of your EC2 resources, including EBS volumes is a little bit tricky and its takes some more time and increase through put is also a tiring job to do.
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    Microsoft
    Blob storage is well suited to hosting/sharing zipped files rather than several smaller files, as folder enumeration/listing is not supported. Files uploaded are case-sensitive, so users need to be educated on the correct naming convention format if they are delegating the file-sharing process outside of IT.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Raw storage capacity attached to your instance operative system
    • Frequent data rewriting (mission critical for reporting)
    • Low latency connectivity (14 reporting subsidiaries in different time zones)
    • Videly spreaded for implementation
    • Fast accessible drive
    • Block storage are core for Java, Net mobile applications
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Easy to work with - drag and drop
    • Capable of long term retention
    • Relatively low cost
    • Good for different data formats
    • Allows archival storage
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Creating too much EBS can be disaster if you are not properly organized by tags
    • In terms of pricing it's a bit on higher side.
    • In terms of performance, there is room for improvement as sometimes reading or saving the data can be painful.
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    Microsoft
    • If we are transferring huge amount of data (outbound), it can get quite expensive.
    • With new features being added constantly, although a good thing, at times it becomes difficult to keep up with the changes. Documentation needs to keep UpToDate and should include best practices.
    • Performance can be improved especially when it comes to cold storage.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon EBS is a great tool and fairly easy to use as long as you are familiar with the Amazon Web Service ecosystem. It allows a great way for you to move storage around easily and allows you to quickly provision storage as needed based on the business requirement. For us, it's easy to move between our EC2 images that had been linked with EBS storage between these Amazon accounts.
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    Microsoft
    Blob storage is fairly simple, with several different options/settings that can be configured. The file explorer has enhanced its usability. Some areas could be improved, such as providing more details or stats on how many times a file has been accessed. It is an obvious choice if you're already using Azure/Entra.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The support for Amazon Elastic Block Store is great as long as you can articulate your needs. Like most tools, there may be some back and forth before you find a support person that is knowledgable in the tool and can provide you with necessary insights.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft has improved its customer service standpoint over the years. The ability to chat with an issue, get a callback, schedule a call or work with an architecture team(for free) is a huge plus. I can get mentorship and guidance on where to go with my environment without pushy sales tactics. This is very refreshing. Typically support can get me to where I need to be on the first contact, which is also nice.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    So far I have only used Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Azure but comparatively [I] prefer AWS elastic Block store as its having more advantages than Azure and I found it quite satisfactory and it helped a lot for information storage. We are not looking for any other hosting provider at this time.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Azure Blob Storage is the best choice to store files when the app runs in Azure. It also has some advantages over S3, like Shared Access Signatures, that make it easy to control access to files directly via a URL. Azure Blob Storage is very fast and we have not had any major issues with it after using it for several years.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • When your application needs high IOPS storage, this is a great solution that will keep your business functioning.
    • Without Amazon Elastic Block Store you could try spreading your data across several standard drives, but that introduces complexity and still has IOPS limits.
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    Microsoft
    • Azure has increased the flexibility of where we place data within our organization.
    • It has proven to be very reliable and always accessible.
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