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Amazon EBS vs DigitalOcean Block Storage: What are the differences?
Amazon EBS: Block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. 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; DigitalOcean Block Storage: Attach highly available and scalable SSD-based Block Storage to your Droplet. Add more storage space, mix and match compute and storage to suit your database, file storage, application, service, mobile, and backup needs.
Amazon EBS and DigitalOcean Block Storage belong to "Cloud Storage" category of the tech stack.
Pros of Amazon EBS
- Point-in-time snapshots36
- Data reliability27
- Configurable i/o performance19
Pros of DigitalOcean Block Storage
- Easy to use1
- Cheap1