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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs. IBM Cloud Block 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

    IBM Cloud Block Storage

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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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
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (20 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)IBM Cloud Block 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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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Block Storage is recommendable to companies that [have a database that] is super sensitive, private, and requires instant access. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a coordinated system, that [classifies] data, based on the requirements that a company has. The security deployment from IBM Cloud Block Storage is another merit that [businesses] attain.
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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
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    IBM
    • Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing.
    • Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB.
    • Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures.
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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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    IBM
    • The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud
    • Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less
    • The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI
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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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    IBM
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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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    IBM
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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.
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    IBM
    Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very easy and the ability to monitor various Cloud operations is excellent.
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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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    IBM
    • Scale the storage when needed to get better performance.
    • Taking snapshot so we can do easy recovery if necessary.
    • We can choose different locations so they are closer to our consumers.
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