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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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)
Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) from Huawei Cloud enables users to create a secure, private, and isolated virtual network. The user can customize IP address ranges, subnets, security groups, and bandwidths, and assign Elastic IP (EIP) addresses.N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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)Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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)Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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 …
Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
It stacks pretty against some of them, but the main issue this platform faces is scaling. So I feel that, if we take accessibility into account, it beats almost all of its competitors but apart from that if we take UI and flexibility into account, it lacks a lot of features as …
Chose Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
I'd like to point out that Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is very simple to use and operate, and we can easily perform operations on it using the documents that are available on its support site. We can easily download the documents from the site, which are …
Features
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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
Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 8.7 out of 10
Vultr
Vultr
Score 6.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10

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Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10

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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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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First and foremost, the cloud is a very secure and widely used platform for practically all businesses.I appreciate that Huawei Cloud is based on OpenStack Cloud, which is a widely used platform, and that you can obtain specifics for each component of OpenStack Cloud on the internet. Using this cloud service makes us feel like we're running a datacenter through a GUI.
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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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  • Isolated private networks on the cloud
  • Two-way migration feature
  • Flexible network deployment
DB
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Cons
  • Integration with Windows instances is not supported
Iván García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iván García
Consultant
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  • It's a little tricky to use, you will need training for maintenance
  • UI can be changed a bit in order to make it more user-friendly
  • Sometimes has scaling issues
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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It stacks pretty against some of them, but the main issue this platform faces is scaling. So I feel that, if we take accessibility into account, it beats almost all of its competitors but apart from that if we take UI and flexibility into account, it lacks a lot of features as compared to its competitors.
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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  • Solved a huge issue of accessibility from different geographical zones
  • Since it was cheaper than the current one, this business decision did save some costs
  • Helped solving concurrent transaction saving issues
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Anonymous
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