Amazon Drive (discontinued) vs. IBM Cloud Block Storage

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

IBM Cloud Block Storage

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Drive (discontinued)	Score 5.1 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Drive allows users to aggregate all of their digital content, including photos and videos, in one place. The Cloud Drive is build in to Amazon devices. Users have secure access from any computer, or via their free mobile apps. Amazon Drive offers a free 3-month trial, and pricing packages based on what type of storage users seek. For $11.99/yr, users can store unlimited photos plus 5GB of videos and other files. For $59.99/yr, users can upgrade to unlimited everything (photos, videos,…	$1.99 per month
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

IBM Cloud Block Storage

Editions & Modules

100 GB: $1.99
per month
1 TB: $6.99
per month
2 TB: $11.99
per month
3 TB: $179.97
per year
4 TB: $239.96
per year
5 TB: $299.95
per year
6 TB: $359.94
per year
7 TB: $419.93
per year
8 TB: $479.92
per year
9 TB: $539.91
per year
10 TB: $599.90
per year
20 TB: 1,199.80
per year
30 TB: 1,799.70
per year

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Drive (discontinued)	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Considered Both Products	Amazon Drive (discontinued) Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Less costly compared to other cloud storage providers available in the market. Amazon Drive gives us [the] option to store and backup data with less or minimal effort from dev side. [Therefore,] we don't need to hire a specific developer for that. As we plan to extend or … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Olsen Digital Marketing Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) OneDrive is a lot more known if you have an Office 365 environment at work. Or at home with things preinstalled. Azure is a huge cloud and Amazon is the only thing that could rival it. Amazon Cloud Drive is a nice way to add another point for redundancy to keep files safe. Incentivized Helpful? Micah Jones Chief Information Officer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Without the "free" photo storage I wouldn't use Amazon Drive. It's really not suited to business use. Incentivized Helpful? KC Kristin Cole Owner Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Other platforms I would compare Amazon Drive to would be Dropbox and Box. Amazon Drive is excellent because the files do not have to live in a collaborative folder that syncs to every device (thus taking up space on each of those devices). Amazon Drive is an "upload and forget" … Incentivized Helpful? Blake Baron Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) We're already inside the Amazon portal so often for sourcing, the cloud storage was an easy extension. It is included in our Prime membership so it was an easy option. Furthermore, the functionality is beyond simple, helping to sell the software internally and gain support … Incentivized Helpful? Arlex Guzman VICEPRESIDENT Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) ACD has lagged behind its competition. I would like to see more space and more features. Its main strength is the Amazon support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) We use Dropbox and Google Drive. Personally, I like Google Drive slightly better because they're cheaper (you can't beat $1.99). They also offer a business option that feels a little more professional. But functionality wise, they compare really similarly and are both … Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Brito Director de Marketing en Festejos Car-Yan. C.A. Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Amazon Drive Cloud has the advantage of being backed by one of the companies that has had the highest growth in recent years: Amazon. That gives us security and has been the main reason for us to trust this product. We believe that the security systems of this company are good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Actually I think both Box and Dropbox are easier to use and have better features for sharing files, especially if you need password security on those files, but Amazon is better for storing tons of data. Box and Dropbox are much more expensive to store a lot of files. Incentivized Helpful? antonio lopez Publicidad Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) I do not have any special reason to use Amazon Cloud Drive, except perhaps that it is cheap to increase storage size and maybe also because the video management is much more video-friendly in the Amazon environment than in Dropbox. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) When compared to other solutions, Amazon is the dominant household name. With that said it is a bit more expensive than the competition. Namely, Google and their entry into the cloud solutions game is being priced very aggressively and in certain cases much cheaper than Amazon. … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Narumiya Director, Data and Information Systems Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) It was a brand that I knew of, and pricing was attractive. Many of our other vendors use Amazon, so that gives us a greater comfort level. Incentivized Helpful? James Murphy Senior Web Developer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) I use this product in conjunction with other products to store information. As a storage solution it performs as expected, it's use as a business application could be open to improvement mainly due to the lack of collaboration, lock off of files, etc. However, its photo storage … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Even though Dropbox is great and has syncing capacities, we use Amazon Cloud Drive just because we are on AWS big time. Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Fazalul Rahman Research Assistant Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Amazon Cloud drive stacks up poorly against the other products with less number of options and features while having costlier plans. I would not substitute any of the other products with Amazon Cloud drive as it still has a long way to go when it comes to better features and … Incentivized Helpful? KH Kaung Htet Kyaw Student Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) The well organized version of Amazon Cloud wins over both Google Drive and Dropbox. Better accessibility compared to Google Drive and faster access speed compared to Dropbox. Won over the both of them overall except for the pricing case. Incentivized Helpful? FA Fareed Abolhassani Information Technology Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Honesty.. I would rather choose Dropbox or OneDrive over Amazon Cloud due to no mobile application or file sync. Amazon does not offer folder sharing but does offer file sharing. The only way for me to use amazon cloud drive over others is music. Amazon Cloud Drive is ideal for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) This is about the same as google drive except I don't feel it's as organized or looks as nice as google drive does. It could do a lot more in terms of making it more visually pleasing and make it look more organize. It doesn't stack up to github in the sense that it's not good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) We selected Amazon due to the large reliable brand name behind ACD and the ability of it to be nested within other services. While Microsoft and Google were strong options, we decided that ACD had a better cost and availability uptime compared to other services. Dropbox has … Incentivized Helpful? venkat nitin panaganti Student Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Since this was used for a class, it was mandatory to use amazon. I have not used any other cloud storage spaces for the same purpose that i have used amazon cloud for, so the comparison might not be valid. The other two services i have used from google and apple are free of … Incentivized Helpful? Marcus Young Web Application Developer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) The functionality/integration of Amazon Cloud Drive is unbeatable. The syncing/usage/add-ons is no where near some of the others like OneDrive or DropBox. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Montoya Servant Leader Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) The other services have a better computer syncing software, but the unlimited photo and video space for a small annual fee is unsurpassed by the competition. Incentivized Helpful? Jorden Beatty Digital Marketing Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) If you compare based on functionality and user-friendliness, other services like Google Drive and Dropbox are better options. However, if you are simply looking for somewhere to securely and reliably host your digital files, Amazon Cloud Drive is a great option. Adding to that … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Block Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Both services are pretty much identical when it comes to their offerings and specifically in their availability, durability and scalability of block storage. AWS S3 stacks someone better in most clients given the vast offerings of AWS within the rest of their solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very … Incentivized Helpful? Veronica Larson Business Analyst Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Joy Information Specialist Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Nickson ICT Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage The biggest difference that I have been able to find from other services external to IBM has been the domain, experience and application of the technology at the datacenter scale that allows [us] to be quite sure that the data will be in good collection. But I insist that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Object Storage is better suited for application development and easy to use from a higher level. IBM Cloud Block Storage is better suited as block storage as a service and totally integrated with the infrastructure as a service, making it easy to deploy and used either … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Being part of an organization that has a sizable footprint in IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Block Storage is a natural choice. Also, IBM Cloud Block Storage's native integration with Aspera is an added bonus for use cases needing fast, reliable data storage and transfer solutions. Incentivized Helpful? CP Charlie Pusey Technical Operations Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage N/A. IBM Cloud Block Storage was the best solution as we already use IBM Cloud for the information that would utilise it. Incentivized Helpful? NS Nobuyuki Suzuki CAA (Chief Applications Architect) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage No experience with other products Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

IBM Cloud Block Storage

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.4 Ratings 0% below category average	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings
Versioning	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
File search	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.3 Ratings 4% below category average	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings
User and role management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
File organization	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.7 Ratings 2% above category average	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings
Performance	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reliability	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Storage Reports	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Small Businesses	SugarSync Score 5.8 out of 10	Vultr Score 6.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon Drive can be helpful in a variety of scenarios. It works best as a cloud back up - a place to store files, photos, and videos that are important and need to be safeguarded. I would not recommend it for collaborative document management and feel that there are other platforms better suited for that need. Amazon Drive can be programmed to upload specific folders from your desktop computer automatically. This is very helpful and takes the guesswork out of protecting your documents. Incentivized KC Kristin Cole Owner Read full review	The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably. I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand. Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Pros	Worldwide accessibility, including from China's great firewall. Highly flexible with different server options: Aurora, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Lengthy free trial lets you really dive deeply and explore the solutions offering and all that Amazon has to provide you with. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing. Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB. Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures. Incentivized Rita Joy Information Specialist Read full review
Cons	Less storage than Google Drive, Google offers 15GB of free space - vs. Amazon's 5GB. Also, unlike with Google Drive, you can't back up your work with Amazon Drive ( I also use Google Drive, since I have a Gmail account). A lot more expensive than Google Drive, which is 1.99/month...but they are more in line with Dropbox pricing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Usability	The system is very easy to use and it's use of apps for almost all devices and hardware makes it even easier to manage and store photos and documents. I highly recommend this as an easy to use solution for novices! Incentivized James Murphy Senior Web Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	It is safe but has little added value. Incentivized Arlex Guzman VICEPRESIDENT Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Overall great software to use for file share, storage, and collaboration. Its security is great and the user management is spot on. The only thing that makes me dock it a point is that the device management as a subset of user management is kind of clunky. It hasn't been an issue yet, but it could compromise security in the future. Overall, would recommend Incentivized Blake Baron Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	If you compare based on functionality and user-friendliness, other services like Google Drive and Dropbox are better options. However, if you are simply looking for somewhere to securely and reliably host your digital files, Amazon Cloud Drive is a great option. Adding to that the fact that Amazon Cloud Drive is far more cost effective over time and comes with Amazon's well-known reliability and professional support, you'll find you have all the reasons you need to select it as your go-to for cloud storage. Incentivized Jorden Beatty Digital Marketing Manager Read full review	IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with other applications, more so for database control and management. IBM Cloud Block Storage is clear, through its operational charter. Incentivized Jude Nickson ICT Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Being free, everything ACD gives is profit. In this service, I have saved files for years and I find the storage very complete and secure. I think it is possible to earn even more if other services are included in the cloud, such as Microsoft Office 360 does it with OneDrive. Incentivized Arlex Guzman VICEPRESIDENT Read full review	Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform. Visualization and Cloud data storage solution. Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer. Incentivized Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review
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