Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.	$0.04 per month per GB (One zone)
IBM Cloud Internet Services	Score 8.8 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.	$275 per month, per domain

Pricing

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Editions & Modules

US East & West Region: $0.043
per month per GB (One zone)
Europe (Ireland) Region: $0.046
per month per GB (One zone)
Asia Pacific & Canada Region: $0.047
per month per GB (One zone)
Africa (Cape Town) Region: $0.054
per month per GB (One zone)
AWS GovCloud (US-East): $0.056
per month per GB (One zone)
US East & West Region: $0.08
per month per GB (Standard)
Asia Pacific & Canada Region: $0.09
per month per GB (Standard)
Europe (Ireland) Region: $0.09
per month per GB (Standard)
Africa (Cape Town) Region: $0.10
per month per GB (Standard)
AWS GovCloud (US-East): $0.11
per month per GB (Standard)

IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard: $275.00
per month, per domain
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise: Call

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

There is no minimum fee or setup charge. You pay only for the storage you use, for read and write access to data stored in Infrequent Access storage classes, and for any provisioned throughput. Amazon EFS offers four storage classes: two standard storage classes, including Amazon EFS Standard and Amazon EFS Standard-Infrequent Access (EFS Standard-IA), and two One Zone storage classes, including Amazon EFS One Zone and Amazon EFS One Zone-Infrequent Access

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	IBM Cloud Internet Services

Features

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) 8.8 Ratings 9% above category average	IBM Cloud Internet Services - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	4.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	IBM Cloud Internet Services
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Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	Cisco ACI Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	This tool is very well suited if you want to work in the AWS ecosystem along with other AWS tools as it easily integrates with them. This works very fast for distributed systems. Sometimes, you can face compatibility issues with the operating system so my advice would be to check that before the implementation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	EFS is easily made high-availability. EFS is simple to implement. EFS uses native NFS file-sharing protocol. Incentivized Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Read full review	build servers in Power PC architecture (ppc) take advantage of IBM datacenters infrastructure around the world continue to use your apps running on AIX Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Cons	Integration with Windows instances is not supported Incentivized Iván García Consultant Read full review	Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible. Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	The documentation is sufficient for setting up and it is basic NFS for mounting so not much support is required. I have not had any issues to warrant a request with AWS support. Incentivized Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Both S3 and EBS have their place in implementations but it does matter in looking at technology solutions from a total viewpoint of marrying various projects and systems and then weighing the advantages (and disadvantages) of EFS against them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Positive: Highly scalable solution, more than 6 month for bug fixing exist only product improvement is there Positive : Dynamic file maintenance to make sure no session time out issue Negative: Nothing as such Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Reduced security configuration time for Internet of Things applications by more than 50% Provided better security incident SLA for CouchDB databases via IBM Cloudant Reduced security verification time for CloudFoundry applications by ~15% Incentivized Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Read full review
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