Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) | Score7.5 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 GB |
 IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose. | $0.51 per hour |
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| 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 | IBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte. | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.5 | 8.2 |
| Support Rating | 8.0 | 7.3 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.0 |