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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Review
January 31, 2023

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Review

Andrey Lokshin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • High load capability
  • Fast input of data
  • Fast access to the drive
  • Java applications (FinTech)
  • Net (Logistics Tech)
  • SAP ERP integration capabilities
  • Neutral. It is in business since of 2006 so it is more customer choise.
  • Productivity. We noticed that apps based on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) has more optimised code.
  • We expect mix of object to block featured systems in nearest future.
  • Localised infrastructure (RAID) went Cloud - 30% less maintanance costs
It is backed by most succesfull company in the field. They were one of the first to offer and we historically tied with Amazon Web Servieces product family. We appreciate their afforts and happy to serve our customers to implement their ideas in the cloud. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is durable and our customers experienced less failures. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is more spreaded in emerging markets of MENA and ACEAN regions we are present now, so you can easily find employees for support and serviecing of your application based on it. Amazon provides great support and related cyber security products that can easily may be used for protecting your cloud. Once you are merging or selling your app, is is easily to change API related and track dates of acting active to confirm ownership transfer date. The only thins is there is no API access, so needs more sophisticated knowledge to manage your infrastructure as a code.

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

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.