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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 App Service

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

    $9.49

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    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure App Service
    Editions & Modules
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    Shared Environment for dev/test
    $9.49
    per month
    Basic Dedicated environment for dev/test
    $54.75
    per month
    Standard Run production workloads
    $73
    per month
    Premium Enhanced performance and scale
    $146
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure App Service
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Free and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains.
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    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure App Service
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    82%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
    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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    91%
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure App Service
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Azure App Service
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    Ratings
    Azure App Service
    6.2
    7 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings6.97 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.46 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings5.86 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings6.27 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings5.86 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings6.17 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings4.26 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings4.66 Ratings
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    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure App Service
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    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure App Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (20 ratings)
    6.9
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Azure App Service
    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
    You may easily deploy your apps to Azure App Service if they were written in Visual Studio IDE (typically.NET applications). With a few clicks of the mouse, you may already deploy your application to a remote server using the Visual Studio IDE. As a result of the portal's bulk and complexity, I propose Heroku for less-experienced developers.
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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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    Microsoft
    • Extremely easy to deploy and update from Visual Studio
    • It integrates seamlessly with other Azure PaaS resources
    • It has an in-depth integration with AppInsights, so you can understand errors and their root cause easily.
    • Easy to create and delete, what is not the same case in a IaaS resource
    • It escalates based on CPU workload and some other resource variables.
    • Configuration changes are almost immediate
    • Offers an excellent abstraction from hardware backend of the platform
    • That's updated very often, saving time and the risk of a self-performed update over a IaaS
    • That's really easy to develop for Web Apps
    • It supports Function Apps and Web Apps into the same "cost black box"
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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
    • Jumps between resource sizes can get expensive
    • You may wind up putting a lot of eggs in one basket--not necessarily a con but something to keep in mind (most of your data will likely be managed and processed through Microsoft products/services if you fully commit to Azure App Service).
    • Learning new technology. If you're moving from on-premises to Azure App Service (or any cloud solutions), you'll likely have to rethink how things are done to achieve the same end results (and/or resources may become expensive quickly).
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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
    I have given this rating because Azure App Service performs very well in terms of speed, reliability, and reducing overhead, and improves overall team productivity, with a little scope for improvement in complex testing scenarios and configurations, scalability concerns in a large setup, and similar tracking and audit needs.
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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 always been known for providing a high standard in terms of customer support and Azure App Service (and as a matter of fact the whole Azure Platform) is no exception. Azure App Service never caused us any issues and we only contacted their customer support for questions regarding server locations and pricing. I feel pretty satisfied with how they treat their customers.
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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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    Microsoft
    When we chose it, we did so because of its integration with Microsoft applications; now we need to integrate with AI, and Azure doesn't offer a good integration. That is the main reason to change it. It is still great to develop Windows- and Microsoft-based applications, but if we need to integrate with AI, Google wins by far.
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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
    • Deployment of ASP.NET apps at the organization has been sped up.
    • An option to offer access to the version control system on a third platform so that we could easily deploy our apps.
    • Because of Azure App Service's scalability capabilities, the costs of running the services are kept to a minimum. As a result, we may save hundreds of dollars each month compared to the expenses of traditional servers by using fewer resources during slack periods.
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