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 Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/28/2018

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

"Good"

4/5

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

Easy to attach, mount and move when creating instances and restore Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Firstly I disliked that I am not able to share the storage, but EFS satisfied me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Industrial Automation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Love the new capabilities and enhancements of EBS"

5/5

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

Volume Cloning and new features on Iops and replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing in major as such. Very much satisfied Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/12/2018

"Flexible storage option for Amazon EC2 instances"

5/5

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

EBS is very good as a flexible storage option and provides multiple levels of performance, such as HDD based, SSD based and you can also choose the iops that you want the volume to provide. If it is used as a volume other than the root partition, you can also increase or decrease the capacity in less than 10 minutes.

EBS.also has the option to take a snapshot, attach to a EC2 Instance, in case the EC2 Instance which it was attached to originally is being retired by Amazon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing much to dislike. It would've been great if at least for the Amazon Linux instances, there is a provision to automatically increase the mount volume without the need to login to the system to expand the filesystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS):

Choose the right option(SSD based or HDD based, and also the iops) when you create an EBS volume. Try with various iops values and choose the right option. Basically, do performance tests to ensure you are using the right capacity in order to get the best performance out of EBS, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

For some of our EMR clusters, from time to time, due to the variance in volume of data we have to increase or decrease the volume of the filesystem, EBS was very useful in that regard, and also it performs really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rinay S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/25/2018

"Great Storage Service"

4/5

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

I love EBS because of its storage and pricing, which is the best thing. EBS is very good as a flexible storage option and provides multiple levels of performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Losing data if system crashes and the price can be high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Need larger size volume support"

4/5

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

Ease of use for provisioning Persistent storage to EC2 instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Size limit on single volume supported for persistent storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Performance"

3.5/5

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

it's easy to use and setup. good for general purpose Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it's not fast enough to support high performance apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"EBS is Great"

5/5

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

The portability and backup capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backup time could be shorter. especially for running machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anuj M.

DevOps Engineer

Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/19/2018

"Good to use and very reliable and scalable"

5/5

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

very simple and easy to use, we can use multiple ios in this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

cost and failover and there is no automatic snapshot available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhupinder T.

Server Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/19/2018

"amazon elastic block store"

5/5

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

quickly accessible and requires long-term persistence and we can easily upgrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it is costly and emr clustering problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/25/2018

"Network Attached Storage at Scale"

4.5/5

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

I love the way ease with which I can provision EBS via single command. The new EBS snapshot lifecycle management is industry leading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Can attach the EBS to another instance simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.