Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Reviews & Product Details

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is a scalable, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. It enables users to create storage volumes that can be attached to EC2 instances, allowing for the creation of file systems, running databases, or other block storage applications. EBS volumes are automatically replicated within their specific Availability Zone to protect against component failures, ensuring high availability and durability. Key Features and Functionality: - Multiple Volume Types: EBS offers various volume types to optimize performance and cost, including SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads and HDD-backed storage for throughput-intensive tasks. - Scalability: Users can dynamically adjust capacity and performance specifications of EBS volumes without downtime, accommodating changing application needs. - Backup and Recovery: EBS provides snapshot capabilities, allowing for point-in-time backups of volumes. These snapshots can be used to restore data or migrate it across different AWS accounts, regions, or availability zones. - Data Encryption: EBS supports encryption to secure data at rest and in transit, utilizing AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for cryptographic key management. - High Availability and Durability: EBS volumes are designed for 99.999% availability, with automatic replication within an Availability Zone to prevent data loss due to hardware failures. Primary Value and User Solutions: Amazon EBS addresses the need for reliable, high-performance, and scalable block storage in the cloud. It enables businesses to run mission-critical applications, such as databases and enterprise applications, with confidence in data availability and durability. The service's flexibility allows users to optimize storage performance and cost according to their specific workload requirements, while features like snapshots and encryption enhance data protection and compliance. By integrating seamlessly with EC2 instances, EBS simplifies storage management, allowing users to focus on their core applications without the complexities of traditional storage solutions.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Community

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

John Miranda (Digital Marketing Specialist at Amazon Web Services)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

18 months

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User Insights

Average based on 91 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

3 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Integrations

(6)

Integration information sourced from real user reviews.

Verified User in Semiconductors

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Elastic, Resilient, and Future Proofed"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Amazon EBS, delivers flexibility to store, move, and manage all in real time without any downtime! The EBS service rocks! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Nothing! Amazon EBS is headed in the right direction and the AWS Consumer community looks forward to further maturity of the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spencer S.

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"SSDs in the cloud"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Fast, easy to provision, good pricing for what's provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Really not a lot. If anything, I wish EFS was cheaper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael C.

Sr. System Engineer

Sporting Goods

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Useful"

3/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Having block storage that is elastic and scalable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

It can be difficult to use in a shared AWS account space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

phil f.

cloud architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"EBS works"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

easy to provision, expand, use, many types to meet our needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

you pay for what you provision, not use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/4/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great Performance"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

The option to select right device type for right workload and best pricing options for saving cost where necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

If we can have more IOPS support for smaller sizes help in some cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"A SAN in the cloud"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

EBS provides decent throughput for most storage related tasks. It allows for predefined IOPS as well for those tasks that require more IOPS as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

I would be nice if it was available across availability zones as it is currently highly available within an AZ but not across Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/3/2018

"Elastic Block Store"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

The best thing is you only pay for what you use. I use it a lot to store basic key:value pairs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Nothing really. EBS "Just Works" and I like that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/1/2018

"Storage provisioning made easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Very simple service to use to provision storage for your EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

None that we have encountered so far but maybe speed and performance for those who have the need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"EBS"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Various types of EBS volumes help us to choose services whether Hadoop, MongoDB, or application server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Hardly anything I dislike, but I wish AWS would provide AWS CLI to map S3 to EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Excellent flexible storage service but lack of visibility when it comes to snapshot costs"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

EBS provides a range of storage services to meet various storage performance requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

IT's really really hard to understand (never mind explain) how EBS snapshots work (in terms of lifecycle management) and how to control the associated costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.