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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. Google Cloud Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
The 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 month per GB (One zone)
Google Cloud Platform
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services used to build apps or take advantage of cloud infrastructural services, achieve legacy infrastructure modernization, or manage enterprise data and analytic needs.N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Google Cloud Platform
Editions & Modules
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)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Google Cloud Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere 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 File System (EFS)Google Cloud Platform
Considered Both Products
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Both S3 and EBS have their place in implementations but it does matter in looking at technology solutions from a total viewpoint of marrying various projects and systems and then weighing the advantages (and disadvantages) of EFS against them.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
If your Team/Company already using AWS and you are building a scalable solution which require API building which connect to a database consist numerous file, then Amazon EFS is definitely must go to tool. which enable the productivity with less maintenance highly compatibility …
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Saenz
Lead System Engineer
Chose Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
EFS is essentially an NFS export offering, just simplified and accessible through all the automation and scalability that AWS offers. It provides high-available replicated data in multiple AZs with is akin to something like DRBD, but without having to manage the layer of …
Google Cloud Platform
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Google Cloud Platform
We also use AWS and Azure in the setup, but went as far as GCP because it scales data workloads. BigQuery made complex analytics so fast and painless. The fact that it plays nicely with other Google tools means a better fit for how our teams work. GCP offered us more reliable …
Chose Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is release later than Amazon web service, I think that why Google Cloud Platform can learned and optimized the Dashboard and some features that make it easy to use and can be cheaper than amazon web service.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Google Cloud Platform
I feel GCS buckets are pretty interchangeable with Amazon S3 as far as I have typically used them. It just depends on who or your company wants to give money to. I have liked the Google Cloud Platform BigQuery console better than the interface for Snowflake, but that may be …
Features
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Google Cloud Platform
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
8.8
Ratings
9% above category average
Google Cloud Platform
8.9
Ratings
10% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates4.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Operating system support9.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Security controls10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Automation10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Google Cloud Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Google Cloud Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
This tool is very well suited if you want to work in the AWS ecosystem along with other AWS tools as it easily integrates with them. This works very fast for distributed systems. Sometimes, you can face compatibility issues with the operating system so my advice would be to check that before the implementation.
Verified User
Anonymous
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For how it helps our team with data storage and connecting to GA4 as a backup option, and the incredibly low cost for us to use it and reliably back up our data, I would highly recommend using this tool for all of your cloud storage needs. It's easy to use and their customer service is always responsive and easy to get a hold of.
Katie Wurdack | TrustRadius Reviewer
Katie Wurdack
Senior Marketing Manager
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Pros
  • EFS is easily made high-availability.
  • EFS is simple to implement.
  • EFS uses native NFS file-sharing protocol.
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Saenz
Lead System Engineer
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  • Google Cloud Platform provide the autoscale workload when the workload need to scale up or down
  • Great pay-as-you-go pricing model and dashboard report of pricing that help user monitor and optimize the cost
  • Using simpler than other cloud provider
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Cons
  • Integration with Windows instances is not supported
Iván García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iván García
Consultant
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  • The Logs Explorer is quite hard to dig into and find logs of interest
  • BigQuery transparency for BigLake vs External tables isn't the best
  • Google Group management for permissions can get hairy.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
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I've found it incredibly easy to use since day one of deployment.
Katie Wurdack | TrustRadius Reviewer
Katie Wurdack
Senior Marketing Manager
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Support Rating
The documentation is sufficient for setting up and it is basic NFS for mounting so not much support is required. I have not had any issues to warrant a request with AWS support.
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Saenz
Lead System Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
Both S3 and EBS have their place in implementations but it does matter in looking at technology solutions from a total viewpoint of marrying various projects and systems and then weighing the advantages (and disadvantages) of EFS against them.
Verified User
Anonymous
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I feel GCS buckets are pretty interchangeable with Amazon S3 as far as I have typically used them. It just depends on who or your company wants to give money to. I have liked the Google Cloud Platform BigQuery console better than the interface for Snowflake, but that may be due to familiarity and the proportion of time I've used Google Cloud Platform over Snowflake.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Positive: Highly scalable solution, more than 6 month for bug fixing exist only product improvement is there
  • Positive : Dynamic file maintenance to make sure no session time out issue
  • Negative: Nothing as such
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Approx 30% cost savings after moving from on-prem to GCP due to reduced hardware, maintenance of DC support, and energy costs.
  • There are much faster release cycles due to CI/CD pipelines with cloud build and scalable infrastructure using GKE. It works very nicely.
  • We use BigQuery a lot, and what used to take hours now takes minutes, speeding up business decisions across teams. Clients.
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Anonymous
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