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A Trusted Data Storage Partner
January 27, 2023

A Trusted Data Storage Partner

Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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.
  • High Performance & Instantly Available on Demand
  • Differential Prizing as per requirement
  • Long term durability
  • 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
  • Easy Management
  • Availability, Durability & Longetivity
  • Cost Effective
  • Its a good tool to have in your software arsenal
  • Very effective as it has allowed us to move/provide data between servers seamlessly
  • reduced downtime and improved devops management processes
Its comparable, but overall I think the user interface to manage Disk Block Storage is better in AWS compared to Google Cloud

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

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.