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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. UpCloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Score 7.5 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
UpCloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.
$0.09
per month per GB
Pricing
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)UpCloud
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)
Private Cloud Storage
€0.085
per month per GB
Block Storage - Standard
€0.085
per month
Block Storage - MaxIOPS
€0.220
per month
SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address
€3.15
per month
Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes
€2,499
per month
Cloud Servers - General Purpose
Starting from €7
per month
GPU Servers
Starting from €1.111
per hour
Cloud Servers - High CPU
Starting from €130
per month
Cloud Servers - Developer
Starting from €3
per month
Cloud Servers - High Memory
Starting from €40
per month
Cloud Servers - Cloud Native
Starting from €12
per month
Relational Databases - 1 Node
Starting from €30
per month
Managed Object Storage
starting from €5
per month 250GB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)UpCloud
Free Trial
YesYes
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 AccessExact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)UpCloud
Features
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)UpCloud
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
7% above category average
UpCloud
6.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.05 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.05 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Elastic load balancing10.04 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Pre-configured templates4.04 Ratings2.71 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.55 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images7.03 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Operating system support9.55 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Security controls10.05 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Automation10.04 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)UpCloud
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)UpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(5 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)UpCloud
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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UpCloud
If you're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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UpCloud
  • Pricing
  • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
  • Great customer service
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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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UpCloud
  • The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
  • A control panel function would be useful
  • The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
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Anonymous
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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.
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Saenz
Lead System Engineer
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UpCloud
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
EFS is easier to configure, no need for Active Directory.
Iván García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iván García
Consultant
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UpCloud
We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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UpCloud
  • The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
  • To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
Verified User
Anonymous
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