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

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Score 8.8 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 8.1 out of 10
N/A
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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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Considered Both Products
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Chose Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
It is backed by most succesfull company in the field. They were one of the first to offer and we historically tied with Amazon Web Servieces product family. We appreciate their afforts and happy to serve our customers to implement their ideas in the cloud. Amazon Elastic Block …
Chose Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
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 …
Chose Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Its comparable, but overall I think the user interface to manage Disk Block Storage is better in AWS compared to Google Cloud
Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Chose Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Besides offering industry-leading features, Google Cloud Persistent Disk is as well affordable and seamlessly integrates with Google services and this makes this storage solution irresistible.
Chose Google Cloud Persistent Disk
We found Google Cloud Persistent Disk's pricing model much easier to understand and predict. The documentation available for it made it easy for us to integrate into our environment. The in-built snapshot schedule provided by Google has been a breeze to implement and saved us …
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Small Businesses
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Akamai Cloud Computing
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(20 ratings)
9.7
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Google Cloud Persistent Disk
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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Google
Google Cloud Persistent Disk is a great storage solution for businesses. It is very secure and it as well scalable. In addition, it is a high-performance storage solution and makes data access and management easy and fast.
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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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Google
  • The software is highly secure.
  • Fast data sharing.
  • Accessing data is easy.
  • Scaling is easy.
  • Integration with other Google services is easy.
  • Easy data storage and acts as a good backup.
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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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Google
  • No bad experiences with Google Cloud Persistent Disk.
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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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Google
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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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Google
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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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Google
Besides offering industry-leading features, Google Cloud Persistent Disk is as well affordable and seamlessly integrates with Google services and this makes this storage solution irresistible.
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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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Google
  • Helped our return to operation with faster restores.
  • Helped the business scale and increase our data storage capacity with [ease].
  • Helped us alleviate the need to store in our local infrastructure, saving on admin costs.
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