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

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Review

Carl Schwarz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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.
  • Flexible IOPS
  • Flexible Storage
  • On demand Snapshots
  • Flexible to load/unload Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • instances onto different EC2 instances.
  • Calculating overall deployment costs can be difficult.
  • Flexible IOPS
  • Flexible attachment scenarios
  • Ability to take snapshots on demand
  • The new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • storage model allows me to have performance without having to buy mega amounts of storage. This was only an AWS complaint however.

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?

No

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

Yes

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.