Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Reviews & Product Details

Being able to size up and switch between volume types on the fly has been an invaluable feature for us. In order to save on cost, we started with all standard volume types, then as needed, converted to gp2. We're not entirely on gp2 and when queue depth or other metrics are being exhausted, we convert on the fly to an io1 volume with the correct number of IOPS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes we need to use snapshots to copy data into other availability zones, or to replace a volume attached to an instance. This involves creating new volumes, detaching old, and attaching new. Without manually tagging the volumes, or writing down the volume/snapshot IDs, it's easy to get confused which volume is which. The ability see more information about an attached volume in the ec2 console would be very valuable. A feature to replace a mount point vs detach, then attach workflow would cut down on errors and increase speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elastic Block Store volumes are the best way to store persistent data in your EC2 instances. They are very cheap, and having your data persist between instances allows you to pick up where you left off if you are using spot instances for example. You can also specify IO throughput and even attach multiple volumes to a single instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Debugging slow performance is very difficult with EBS volumes. The issue with cloud infrastructure is that your hardware is thousands of miles away and only accessible through limited means. I wish Amazon would create tools to run on the instances to detect why a volume is not hitting its performance targets but I understand what an undertaking that would be for them across hundreds of thousands of instances and volumes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how easy it is for me to create a snapshot of a volume, create a new volume out of the snapshot, and deploy the new volume to a virtual machine. It takes all of about five minutes to complete the process, and when it comes to doing any kind of testing, it's a valuable tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike how difficult it is to set up automated backups of volumes. Some regions have new functionality via CloudWatch that let you schedule backups, but it's not available in all AWS regions as of September of 2018. Some of our regions have heavy backup requirements, and we're dependant on EBS snapshots for those backups. Setting up new backup sets is tedious and takes more time than it should. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it was to disconnect the block from its original ec2 instance for maintenance purposes. After a forgotten policy caused everyone to be locked out of the system, I was able to attach the block to another instance and recover access to the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not found anything about elastic block store that I do not like yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EBS storage can be used to preserve application state beyond the life of the instance. By manually attaching the storage after an instance starts, the availability of the state of a single instance can be greatly increase without the need to replicate the state back into a single instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downsides are the need to manually attach the storage after an instance failure and the performance of an EBS volume is less than a directly attached instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product is being beta tested, and sure it has its kinks but what system doesn’t. Amazon is always engineering new creative and ambitious things to come out ahead of the class Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At first it wasn’t so user friendly. But once I got the hang of it I realized it wasn’t as bad as I had initially thought. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to attach to resources, sizing is very transparent and so are the different ebs volume types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Corrupt volumes bringing down production systems where this would then translate to having to rehydrate or reingest data that was reliant on the EBS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EBS is the main service and best service to solve storage issues for all users, the main like and advantage for EBS is storage and pricing, which is the best thing, aws have many type of EBS like simple ebs, s3, glacier. This is the service which depend upon user to use as it has many options if customer is using disk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

main dislike i can say only is slow mount time other wise all things are good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I liked the most of this service is that the Elastic Block can be attach to (or detach from) any EC2 instance, giving you the advantage of replacing the type of instance but keep the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EBS in some way have issues at the time of IOPS, it would be good if they improve that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is definitely the most sophisticated and future proof storage options in the present. Undoubtedly the best in the world! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't see any major dislikes with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.