Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs. Google Cloud Persistent Disk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Amazon 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
Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Google's Persistent Disk service on Google Cloud is designed to present reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances.N/A
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User Ratings
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Likelihood to Recommend
EBS is well-suited for use as a storage option for databases, including relational databases, NoSQL databases, and big data analytics databases. EBS can provide high IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second) and low latency. EBS provides a high-availability storage solution, which ensures that your data is always available and accessible even in case of a single or multiple availability zone failures. EBS can also be replicated across multiple availability zones to ensure data durability. The scenario where I find it less appropriate is in terms of cost; EBS can be more expensive than other storage options, such as Amazon S3, especially for large amounts of data or for infrequently accessed data.
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If you are shopping for a virtual business storage software, Google Cloud Persistent Disk offers the best features more so when it comes to ease of data access, data security, fast data transfers, and scalability. It is ideal for all businesses regardless of the industry.
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Pros
  • 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
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  • Easy to provision
  • Easy to scale
  • Easy at administer
  • Easy pricing model
  • Geographically located
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Cons
  • EBS volume can be attached to only one EC2 instance at a time
  • The volumes are limited to the Availability zones of the instance they are attached to
  • The maximum size is 64TB. We have had usecases where we needed larger volume
  • The backup snapshots are stored on S3 and that's an additional cost.
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  • I have not experienced any problems using Google Cloud Persistent Disk.
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Usability
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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Support Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
Volumes range from cost-effective dollar-per-GB to high performance with the fastest IOPS and throughput. You can change volume types, tune performance, or increase volume size without disrupting your critical applications. EBS volumes are replicated within an Availability Zone (AZ) and can easily scale to petabytes of data. Build your SAN in the cloud for I/O-intensive applications. Run relational or NoSQL databases.
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We are using many Google products and therefore Google Cloud Persistent Disk was our best choice. It is scalable and very secure.
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Return on Investment
  • In terms of ROI, I found it's really cost-effective since maintenance cost is not there. No need to spend extra money on the procurement of hard drives
  • On demand feature of Ebs is quite effective when you require extra storage you can allocate and pay as per your need.
  • Accessibility from everywhere and deployment of it across different geographical location.
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  • No need to worry about the data we are stored in the system
  • Durabla system
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