Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. AWS CloudFormation
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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) | Score7.5 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 GB |
AWS CloudFormation | Score8.2 out of 10 | N/A | AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.… | $0 |
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| 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 | There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource. | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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100% Would buy again 5 Answers | 100% Would buy again 7 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Delivers good value for the price 7 Answers | |
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100% Happy with the feature set 5 Answers | 86% Happy with the feature set 6 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 86% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 6 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Implementation went as expected 7 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | IBM Cloud Object Storage Score9 out of 10 | HashiCorp Vagrant Score9 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Score8.7 out of 10 | IBM Terraform Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | SAP on IBM Cloud Score9 out of 10 | IBM Terraform Score8.7 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Usability | - | 8.0 |
| Support Rating | 8.0 | - |
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