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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. IBM Cloud File Storage

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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

15 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Cloud File Storage

82 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    IBM Cloud File Storage

    Score8.7 out of 10
    		N/AIBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
    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)IBM Cloud File Storage
    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)IBM Cloud File Storage
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Mauro Giannandrea
    Senior devops engeneer at Domotz in Information Technology at Domotz (Computer Hardware, 51-200 employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    IBM Cloud File Storage is easier to manage and easier to move on other datacenters to create new workflow. The ecosystem on IBM is more enterprise oriented and math company's customers requirements more than the other 2 providers. In addition we also wanted a different …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    In my opinion, IBM has produced excellent products that have been instrumental in the development of our business. We rely heavily on data to power the programs in our organization. Because our systems can be accessed from various apps without experiencing any downtime, …
    Incentivized
    Yasitha Bogamuwa
    Lead Engineer in Information Technology at Zone24x7 (Private) Limited (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    Yes, we are heavily using the AWS Cloud platform and they have a managed NFS service called Elastic File System (EFS). It workes really well with our HA architecture.
    Incentivized
    Nicolas Hubert
    Data Scientist in Information Technology at Credit Suisse SA (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    We selected IBM Cloud File Storage because of the company's reputation as a good provider of cloud file storage solutions and more generally, my company at that time relied heavily on IBM software. We hesitated a little bit with Amazon EFS which had some key features that IBM …
    Incentivized
    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 File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and IBM Cloud File Storage
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
    8.8
    5 Ratings
    IBM Cloud File Storage
    8.5
    39 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.05 Ratings9.737 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling10.05 Ratings8.836 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing10.04 Ratings8.135 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates4.04 Ratings7.631 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.55 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images7.03 Ratings8.133 Ratings
    Operating system support9.55 Ratings9.636 Ratings
    Security controls10.05 Ratings9.437 Ratings
    Automation10.04 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)IBM Cloud File Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    8.8
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)