Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. IBM Cloud File Storage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Score 7.2 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
IBM Cloud File Storage
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
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)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere 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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Community Pulse
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
Considered Both Products
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

No answer on this topic

IBM Cloud File Storage
Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
IBM Cloud File Storage is easier to manage and easier to move on other datacenters to create new workflow. The ecosystem on IBM is more enterprise oriented and math company's customers requirements more than the other 2 providers. In addition we also wanted a different …
Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
In my opinion, IBM has produced excellent products that have been instrumental in the development of our business. We rely heavily on data to power the programs in our organization. Because our systems can be accessed from various apps without experiencing any downtime, …
Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
Yes, we are heavily using the AWS Cloud platform and they have a managed NFS service called Elastic File System (EFS). It workes really well with our HA architecture.
Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
We selected IBM Cloud File Storage because of the company's reputation as a good provider of cloud file storage solutions and more generally, my company at that time relied heavily on IBM software. We hesitated a little bit with Amazon EFS which had some key features that IBM …
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Features
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
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
5 Ratings
8% above category average
IBM Cloud File Storage
9.0
39 Ratings
10% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.05 Ratings9.737 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.05 Ratings9.036 Ratings
Elastic load balancing10.04 Ratings9.235 Ratings
Pre-configured templates4.04 Ratings8.731 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.55 Ratings8.437 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images7.03 Ratings8.933 Ratings
Operating system support9.55 Ratings9.636 Ratings
Security controls10.05 Ratings9.737 Ratings
Automation10.04 Ratings7.830 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(5 ratings)
9.0
(40 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
While the idea is to utilize it enterprise wide; it sometimes doesn't work well in smaller applications and that causes slowdowns and impacts productivity. Also when evaluating EFS versus EBS - one needs to look at cost as EFS is a lot more expensive to implement and run so you need to weigh cost benefits of both systems and choose the best for you.
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IBM
well suited: Enterprise File Sharing and Collaboration: Scenario: our organization has teams working on projects across different geographical locations, and they need a centralized and easily accessible file storage solution. IBM Cloud File Storage can facilitate seamless file sharing and collaboration among team members. less appropriate Highly Transactional Databases: Scenario: Your organization has highly transactional and I/O-intensive database workloads that require low-latency access to data. In such cases, block storage or specialized database services might be more appropriate than file storage.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • This is very easy to setup and has a great performance.
  • As per the name, Elastic grows as your data grows.
  • We can run multiple EC2 instances.
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IBM
  • Simple file system sharing
  • Lots of storage space (up to 12 TB)
  • Choice of performance (up to 10 IOPS/GB)
  • Simple interface to order more storage
  • Quick interface to allow more servers to share the file store
  • Security - only allows access from specified server(s)
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • For early age start it would be costly
  • Not necessary for small scale system, but very beneficial for system which have high TPS and huge user base
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IBM
  • We have sometimes experienced some outages and hope IBM will fix this soon.
  • Initial trainings are required for the teams to work and do the setup.
  • Support documentation from IBM needs improvement with [the] inclusion of more detailed steps and video tutorials for [a] better understanding of the engineers.
  • The billing process is very complex and you may have to incur additional overhead. Need a simpler approach and clarity on this aspect.
  • Support response from the IBM team is very slow and lacks information.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
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IBM
IBM Cloud File Storage is a valuable tool in the arsenal of any small business. It's flexibility combined with its ease of use ensure that there is low operational overhead, combined with a solid return on investment. It's role based access control features combined with sharing capabilities make it a significant win for any business.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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.
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IBM
The IBM team provides effective support for all the cloud operations. They tracks operations and database functionalities closely to enhance reliable operations and remove inefficiencies that affect work processes. The support team has prepared video tutorials and manuals that guides our members on how to work with the database systems effectively.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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IBM
The IBM Professional services provided the re4quired infrastructure for getting the best out of this tool. It offered excellent guidelines that enhanced efficient integrations. The organization was pleased with the setup process that was completed quickly than expected. The application has been operation effectively after deployment. We have continued to get support from the IBM support team when there are challenges.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
EFS is easier to configure, no need for Active Directory.
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IBM
IBM Cloud File Storage, unlike other similar products, offers excellent Cloud data security and its overall data management quality on IBM Cloud File Storage is incredible and its data integration support is perfect because it allows big data migration across many Cloud platforms for effective data analytics generation and data visualization tools are great.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Cost is always a paramount issue when looking at ROI
  • It is fast and if that's what you need for your implementation - you probably will not find a better solution
  • Expertise in EFS is sometimes hard to come by so it's best to look at your employee's ability to grasp this technology. Otherwise, it's a pretty steep learning curve.
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IBM
  • Compared with company datacenter require less maintenance time with an incomparable high availability and business continuity features
  • The possibility to move snapshots on other data centers let this solution super scalable worldwide
  • The price for gb let us pay what we need without a pre commissioned storage buy
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