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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.
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.
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.