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Amazon Elastic Block Store is your friend for high throughput applications with a lot of data
January 27, 2023

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

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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.
  • High IOPS storage
  • Storage for high traffic servers
  • Storage for critical databases
  • 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
  • The ability to specify IOPS
  • 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.
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Amazon RDS uses Amazon Elastic Block Store storage, so you can get similar performance and not have to manage a database server if you were planning to use RDS with a database.

Do you think Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) again?

Yes

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.