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Amazon EBS

Stacks650

Followers542

Votes82

Google Cloud Storage

Stacks2.0K

Followers1.2K

Votes75

Amazon EBS vs Google Cloud Storage: What are the differences?

Key differences between Amazon EBS and Google Cloud Storage

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Google Cloud Storage are both storage solutions provided by their respective cloud platforms. However, there are several key differences between these services.

Performance: EBS provides consistently high-performance block storage, designed for low-latency applications. On the other hand, Google Cloud Storage is primarily designed for storing and serving large files and objects, with lower emphasis on low-latency access.
Pricing Model: EBS offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you pay for the provisioned storage volume and I/O operations. In contrast, Google Cloud Storage follows a tiered pricing model based on data storage and egress bandwidth.
Data Durability: EBS provides high durability for your data by replicating it within a single availability zone. Google Cloud Storage, on the other hand, offers multi-regional and regional storage options, providing higher data durability across multiple locations.
Data Transfer: While both services provide options for transferring data, EBS primarily focuses on data transfer within the same availability zone or between availability zones within the same region. Google Cloud Storage offers both regional and multi-regional data transfer options within and between regions.
Integration with Compute Services: EBS is tightly integrated with Amazon EC2 instances, providing seamless attachment and detachment of volumes. Google Cloud Storage, however, is a standalone service that can be used with various compute services offered by Google Cloud Platform.
Access Control: EBS uses IAM roles and policies for access control, allowing fine-grained permission management. Google Cloud Storage provides access control through Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM), offering similar capabilities for managing access to the storage resources.

In summary, the key differences between Amazon EBS and Google Cloud Storage include performance focus, pricing models, data durability, data transfer options, integration with compute services, and access control mechanisms.

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Advice on Amazon EBS, Google Cloud Storage

Gabriel

CEO at NaoLogic Inc

Dec 24, 2019

Decided

We offer our customer HIPAA compliant storage. After analyzing the market, we decided to go with Google Storage. The Nodejs API is ok, still not ES6 and can be very confusing to use. For each new customer, we created a different bucket so they can have individual data and not have to worry about data loss. After 1000+ customers we started seeing many problems with the creation of new buckets, with saving or retrieving a new file. Many false positive: the Promise returned ok, but in reality, it failed.

That's why we switched to S3 that just works.

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Ben

May 18, 2020

Decided

We choose Backblaze B2 because it makes more sense for storing static assets.

We admire Backblaze's customer service & transparency, plus, we trust them to maintain fair business practices - including not raising prices in the future.

Lower storage costs means we can keep more data for longer, and lower bandwidth means cache misses don't cost a ton.

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon EBS	Google Cloud Storage
Amazon EBS volumes are network-attached, and persist independently from the life of an instance. Amazon EBS provides highly available, highly reliable, predictable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage.	Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure.
Amazon EBS allows you to create storage volumes from 1 GB to 1 TB that can be mounted as devices by Amazon EC2 instances. Multiple volumes can be mounted to the same instance.;Amazon EBS enables you to provision a specific level of I/O performance if desired, by choosing a Provisioned IOPS volume. This allows you to predictably scale to thousands of IOPS per Amazon EC2 instance.;Storage volumes behave like raw, unformatted block devices, with user supplied device names and a block device interface. You can create a file system on top of Amazon EBS volumes, or use them in any other way you would use a block device (like a hard drive).;Amazon EBS volumes are placed in a specific Availability Zone, and can then be attached to instances also in that same Availability Zone.;Each storage volume is automatically replicated within the same Availability Zone. This prevents data loss due to failure of any single hardware component.;Amazon EBS also provides the ability to create point-in-time snapshots of volumes, which are persisted to Amazon S3. These snapshots can be used as the starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes, and protect data for long-term durability. The same snapshot can be used to instantiate as many volumes as you wish. These snapshots can be copied across AWS regions, making it easier to leverage multiple AWS regions for geographical expansion, data center migration and disaster recovery.;AWS also enables you to create new volumes from AWS hosted public data sets.;Amazon CloudWatch exposes performance metrics for EBS volumes, giving you insight into bandwidth, throughput, latency, and queue depth. The metrics are accessible via the AWS CloudWatch API or the AWS Management Console. For more details, see Amazon CloudWatch.	High Capacity and Scalability;Strong Data Consistency;Google Developers Console Projects;Bucket Locations;REST APIS;OAuth 2.0 Authentication;Authenticated Browser Downloads;Google Account Support for Sharing
Statistics
Stacks 650	Stacks 2.0K
Followers 542	Followers 1.2K
Votes 82	Votes 75
Pros & Cons
Pros 36 Point-in-time snapshots 27 Data reliability 19 Configurable i/o performance	Pros 28 Scalable 19 Cheap 14 Reliable 9 Easy 3 Chealp

What are some alternatives to Amazon EBS, Google Cloud Storage?

Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web

Azure Storage

Azure Storage provides the flexibility to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data, such as documents and media files with Azure Blobs; structured nosql based data with Azure Tables; reliable messages with Azure Queues, and use SMB based Azure Files for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.

Minio

Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License

OpenEBS

OpenEBS allows you to treat your persistent workload containers, such as DBs on containers, just like other containers. OpenEBS itself is deployed as just another container on your host.

Rackspace Cloud Files

Cloud Files, powered by OpenStack®, provides an easy to use online storage for files and media which can be delivered globally at blazing speeds over Akamai's content delivery network (CDN).

Storj

It is an open source, decentralized file storage solution. It uses encryption, file sharing, and a blockchain-based hash table to store files on a peer-to-peer network. The goal is to make cloud file storage faster, cheaper, and private.

RunAbove

We give you full access to the OpenStack API, which our compute (Nova) and storage (Swift) solutions are based on. This means no provider lock-in and easy automation of all your deployments. You can also manage your account and billing details via our RESTful API. You can choose between Horizon or OVH's easy-to-use web panel.

DigitalOcean Spaces

DigitalOcean Spaces are designed to make it easy and cost effective to store and serve massive amounts of data. Spaces are ideal for storing static, unstructured data like audio, video, and images as well as large amounts of text.

Rook

It is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments.