Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.4 out of 10

Score

9.4 out of 10

Reviews

20 Reviews

Highly scalable persistent volume for your EC2 instances

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 15, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use EBS to provide persistent storage to our EC2 instances. It enables us to store data which remains persistent even when the instance is stopped or termimated. And allows us to startup the server without any loss of data. EBS is highly scalable. In case an EC2 instance goes down, it allows us to quickly spin up new instances with same configuration.

Pros

Provides reliable and secure storage for apps and databasea.
Highly scalable
Extremely strong backup mechanism
Provides enhanced encryption and data protection

Cons

EBS volume can be attached to only one EC2 instance at a time
The volumes are limited to the Availability zones of the instance they are attached to
The maximum size is 64TB. We have had usecases where we needed larger volume
The backup snapshots are stored on S3 and that's an additional cost.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable when

When you need the flexibility to scale block storage quickly and easily.

When you need a secure, reliable and scalable storage for your applications

Unsuitable when

The data is needed to be accessed from multiple regions

When the application requires high throughput, low latency or frequent data access.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 31, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) on EC2 instances that have FileMaker Server installed. High IOPS is required as this is a database server.

Pros

Flexible IOPS
Flexible Storage
On demand Snapshots
Flexible to load/unload Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
instances onto different EC2 instances.

Cons

Calculating overall deployment costs can be difficult.

Likelihood to Recommend

It was originally was terrible for database storage. If you used it before 2020 then you may be left with a bad experience, as the IOPS were not configurable and were low. Databases could come to a halt from a simple query. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes make up for that shortfall by having flexible IOPS. You can even temporarily upgrade / downgrade the IOPS on the fly! The older style EBS volume that is not good for database or high performance applications. It can be rate limited during heavy processing and you will have to wait and wait until processing is finished.

Carl Schwarz

Business Owner in Professional Services at Schwarz Software (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

8 years of experience

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 31, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are serviecing out customers implementation of in-house projects and SaaS product businesses for B2C markets. We are mostly dealing with object storages, especially for meta data dependent projects but for the large corporate use we experienced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), which is targeted for Mission critical infrastructure. The scope was large corporate reporting systems, based on implemented ERP (SAP AG) to have precise and frequently updated reporting server and dependent on frequent update industrial infrastructure which needed low latency connectivity of devices.

Pros

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

Cons

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)does not fit for in-depth analytical systems having no internal data schema (metadata) applicable - so you need one more data base to map
Pricing should be according to the space used for large institutional users (% of capacity)
Fragmented data some times requers more sophisticated access versus API
Binded server for system runing (no external access), critical for DevOps

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to run ultimate, high scale application for frequently updated data with permanent recovery point update - use block storage especially if you are core Java, MSFT Net developer. It has faster input/output capabilities and rapid access, but limited only for current instance nor any external server call. It will not fit your demand for building in depth analytical system, cause missing build in data schema, and using separate data base for mapping metadata could slow and limit access. Since of 2000-th Elastic is more then classics, so is a choise of your architectore if it suit your business objective. There is no field for failure, so choose type block or object before you have started implementation. Works good for data warehousing of missiong critical parts of ERP and decision making apps.

Andrey Lokshin

Senior Financial Analyst in Research & Development at Team Harbour, Inc. (11-50 employees)

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2 years of experience

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Review on Amazon Elastic Block Store.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 30, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides block-level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. EBS volumes behave like raw, unformatted block devices. You can mount these volumes as devices on your instances. EBS volumes that are attached to an instance are exposed as storage volumes that persist independently from the life of the instance.

Pros

high-performance block-storage service.
Easy to use.
Protect against the failure with almost everytime.

Cons

Keep backups of your EC2 resources, including EBS volumes.
Increase the through put is little bit hard.
Restore the volume from your snapshot.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

High-performance and reliable storage solution: A review of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 29, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon EBS is the perfect storage solution for all your data needs. Whether you're backing up your EC2 instance, archiving data, or storing it for future use. Similarly, for our organization, we used EBS for backing up our EC2 instances while having web apps deployed in the instances. And have used EBS as one of our primary storage options.

Pros

Database Storage.
Boot Volumes.
Data Backup and Archiving.
Data Warehousing.

Cons

Data Migration.
Cost
Data encryption.

Likelihood to Recommend

EBS is well-suited for use as a storage option for databases, including relational databases, NoSQL databases, and big data analytics databases. EBS can provide high IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second) and low latency. EBS provides a high-availability storage solution, which ensures that your data is always available and accessible even in case of a single or multiple availability zone failures. EBS can also be replicated across multiple availability zones to ensure data durability. The scenario where I find it less appropriate is in terms of cost; EBS can be more expensive than other storage options, such as Amazon S3, especially for large amounts of data or for infrequently accessed data.

Verified User

Employee (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

A Trusted Data Storage Partner

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are integrating an open source web3 protocol called matrix.org to build our internal communication and chat platform. We are enabling Slack, Whatsapp, Discord, Instagram for our internal and external use. When using all these channels media and content gets shared between our various users and the current version of matrix does not provide a direct way for us to store the content on S3. Hence we added a EBS Volume on a general management server and then using NFS we attached it to our matrix servers. This way when we autoscale our matrix servers, the NFS bonds between the EBS and matrix servers allows us to share the stored content instantly with the newly spawned matrix servers.

Pros

High Performance & Instantly Available on Demand
Differential Prizing as per requirement
Long term durability

Cons

Network Latency can be an issue sometimes
It can become tedious to figure out the linkage between EBS & the volume mounted on the servers, especially if one is using multiple EBS
Naming conventions can be confusing, it's not automatic and if user is dis-organised then it can lead to confusing

Likelihood to Recommend

It is enterprise architecture ready. Easily configurable and available on demand with differential pricing as per volume, size requirement. Its easy to manage, attach/de-attach and re-attach without any dataloss. Can be used for backups, hosting own database storage etc.

Alok Pabalkar

Co-Founder & CTO in Research & Development at GIDE.AI (11-50 employees)

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10 years of experience

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Amazon Elastic Block Store is your friend for high throughput applications with a lot of data

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes are used when higher performance storage is needed. Usually when a certain level of IOPS is required. Databases for example. You don’t want to use it for standard storage like your OS drive.

Pros

High IOPS storage
Storage for high traffic servers
Storage for critical databases

Cons

Amazon Elastic Block Store is expensive to use
Because of the additional features, Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes have a learning curve to understand how and when to implement them

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Elastic Block Store is appropriate for servers that have high IOPS requirements. Things like databases. Although you may be better off using an RDS database instance in many cases as opposed to building your own database servers. Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes can be useful for any high traffic server where the standard storage volumes aren’t keeping up with throughput requirements. Possibly file servers.

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Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

EBS - A life saver in information technology

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using EBS for backup and restore process. It's quite helpful to monitor our running instance with scheduled backup. In case, anything goes wrong with current running instance, backups are life saver. For disaster recover and DR Test, we are making great use of EBS volume in our organisation.

Pros

Backup and Restore
Disaster Recovery
DR testing
Data Persistence after termination of critical running instance

Cons

Limited availability: It is available in certain regions and AZ's only
Limited data movement: It can be used to move data in only certain AZ which makes it difficult to work with multiple AZ setup.
Limited support for different file systems: It natively supports a few file systems like ext4 and NTFS which can limits its use with certain types of workloads and applications
Limited data durability with particular AZ. That AZ goes down, it can result in data loss.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well-suited for below uses:

1. Data Persistence

2. Backup and restore

3. DR testing

4. Disaster Recovery

It is less appropriate for below:

1. Multiple region or AZ developments

2. Big data

3. Data archiving

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

AWS EBS is a most trusted one for business purposes

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 10, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS EBS is working fine to store the data on the server. The information was stored on the hard disc, which caused a challenge in retrieving it. The price is also quite low. Our only issue was with latency. Large volumes of data are also extracted using EBS. It does, however, take time.

Pros

Speed.
Storage.
Capacity.

Cons

Transparency.
Security for data should be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

EBS has the ability to make data is efficiently saved, and it is treated with care. Zone availability is one of the most intriguing characteristics. When an instance is terminated, no data is lost. The starting time has been reduced. You can pause and resume the instance at any time. It is possible that utilizing an EBS AMI is more expensive than using a non-EBS AMI.

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

AWS EBS is one of the finest service from Amazon

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 10, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Right now I am using it to save the statistics on the server. There became a hassle getting the statistics due to the fact the statistics became saved at the difficult drive. The value is likewise pretty cheap. The best hassle we had was latency. EBS is likewise used to extract big quantities of data. However, it takes time.

Pros

Speed.
Data storage.
Storage space availability.

Cons

Automating tasks.
Connectivity.

Likelihood to Recommend

In this EBS the data is saved successfully and facts are processed with caution. One of the maximum thrilling functions is quarter availability. No facts are misplaced whilst the example is terminated. The startup time is shortened. You can prevent and begin the example. Using an EBS AMI may be greater expensive than the usage of a non-EBS AMI.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 31, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

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

Cons

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)does not fit for in-depth analytical systems having no internal data schema (metadata) applicable - so you need one more data base to map
Pricing should be according to the space used for large institutional users (% of capacity)
Fragmented data some times requers more sophisticated access versus API
Binded server for system runing (no external access), critical for DevOps

Likelihood to Recommend

Andrey Lokshin

Senior Financial Analyst in Research & Development at Team Harbour, Inc. (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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