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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.

    $0.04

    per GB

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    Editions & Modules
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
    US East & West Region
    $0.043
    per month per GB (One zone)
    Europe (Ireland) Region
    $0.046
    per month per GB (One zone)
    Asia Pacific & Canada Region
    $0.047
    per month per GB (One zone)
    Africa (Cape Town) Region
    $0.054
    per month per GB (One zone)
    AWS GovCloud (US-East)
    $0.056
    per month per GB (One zone)
    US East & West Region
    $0.08
    per month per GB (Standard)
    Asia Pacific & Canada Region
    $0.09
    per month per GB (Standard)
    Europe (Ireland) Region
    $0.09
    per month per GB (Standard)
    Africa (Cape Town) Region
    $0.10
    per month per GB (Standard)
    AWS GovCloud (US-East)
    $0.11
    per month per GB (Standard)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—There is no minimum fee or setup charge. You pay only for the storage you use, for read and write access to data stored in Infrequent Access storage classes, and for any provisioned throughput. Amazon EFS offers four storage classes: two standard storage classes, including Amazon EFS Standard and Amazon EFS Standard-Infrequent Access (EFS Standard-IA), and two One Zone storage classes, including Amazon EFS One Zone and Amazon EFS One Zone-Infrequent Access
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    EC2 is easier and more intuitive to use than the same product from other Cloud providers, AWS has been improving on EC2 since its conception in 2006 while the other cloud providers are only following the steps of AWS without much innovation.

    AWS has been the leader on Cloud …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    We have been using EC2 for so much longer, that even though we use Azure's other features and services more then the equivalent AWS features and services, we don't usually go for Azure's VM offerings first over EC2. I guess that that means this recommendation is mostly based …
    Incentivized
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    8.8
    5 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings9.55 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)