Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.9. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.3% mindshare in CS, compared to NetApp’s 12.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

Amazon EBS and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP compete in the block storage solutions category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand due to its advanced features, although it is more expensive.

Features: Amazon EBS offers reliable performance, scalability, and security. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides data management capabilities like snapshots, clones, and data tiering.

Room for Improvement: Amazon EBS could benefit from improved data management features and a more intuitive control panel. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP needs enhanced integration capabilities and a simplified pricing structure.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon EBS is noted for its straightforward deployment process and excellent customer interaction. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, although slightly complex to set up, offers substantial support and documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon EBS is cost-effective with flexible pricing models and quick ROI. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, despite a higher upfront cost, provides significant long-term ROI through its extensive feature set.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...

Ranking in Cloud Storage

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (10th), Public Cloud Storage Services (5th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is 2.3%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 12.8%, down from 13.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Diverse features and affordability drive effective resource management

Amazon EBS offers diverse features. It can be used for multi-purpose storage, supporting single, multiple, or heavy loads. It has different types for various use cases, allowing me to choose based on my specific requirements. The primary advantage of Amazon EBS is affordability compared to other solutions like EFS or FSX. It acts as a hard drive for servers, making it essential for operation.

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Madhusudan Srinivasmurthy

System Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler

NetApp's Integration with AWS has helped us because we had a tough time transferring data when we used an ONTAP competitor as our storage partner. They don't have integration with AWS tools, so we had to figure it out on our own. ONTAP has built-in integration and allows us to replicate a copy to our second data center. Everything is in one channel. It's possible without the technology, but it's more time-consuming. NetApp saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of the most valuable was snapshots. There were scenarios in which the whole EC2 crashed, or we were unable to use it for some time, but the data on the mounted volumes were crucial to us. So, at that time, snapshots were very helpful."

"The durability and snapshot capabilities are good."

"One of the features I find most valuable is that EBS can be independent. You can attach and detach it from your server."

"Amazon EBS is very stable."

"The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."

"I find it valuable for applications requiring high throughput or IOPS and mention its stability and performance as significant factors."

"EBS can handle Apex, which helps us manage many issues. EBS is easy to use and has high performance."

"The most valuable features of Amazon EBS are the ease of mounting any file system and good for block storage. We can use secondary storage for our difficult instances and it performs well."

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"Unified Manager, System Manager, and Cloud Manager are all GUI-based. It's easy for somebody who has not been exposed to this for years to pick it up and work with it."

"The stability has been really good."

"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."

"ONTAP's snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are pretty useful in recovering your data from a time in a snapshot. That's pretty useful for when you have an event where a disaster struck and then you need to recover all your data. It's pretty helpful and pretty fast in those terms."

"The FlexClones make all the management easier for us."

"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."

"If anything happens, their technical support will come onsite and fix it."

"The most valuable features of this solution are SnapShot, FlexClone, and deduplication."

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Cons

"It would be good if the solution added a button to increase the size and make the EC2 machine recognize the increased capacity of the EBS."

"I would like EBS to have no limitations, similar to stream-like block storage, which can accommodate an unlimited amount of sales."

"The setup could be easier."

"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."

"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."

"I see a need for improvement in the scalability of Amazon EBS."

"There is room for improvement in terms of file storage. Recently, we had a scenario in which, in a file share, we had increased the IOPS capacity; this was for the production environment."

"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."

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"When it comes to support provided by NetApp, they have room for improvement. Every time we go through their support, we end up answering the same routine questions."

"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."

"I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website."

"If they could include clustering together multiple physical Cloud Volumes ONTAP devices as an option, that could be helpful."

"We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side... But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers."

"I would like to see more aggressive management of the aggregate space. On the Cloud Volumes ONTAP that we use for offsite backup copies, most of the data sits in S3. There are also the EBS volumes on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP itself. Sometimes what happens is that the aggregate size just stays the same. If it allocates 8 terabytes initially, it just stays at 8 terabytes for a long time, even though we're only using 20 percent of that 8 terabytes. NetApp could undersize that more aggressively."

"When it comes to a critical or a read-write-intensive application, it doesn't provide the performance that some applications require, especially for SAP. The SAP HANA database has a write-latency of less than 2 milliseconds and the CVO solution does not fit there. It could be used for other databases, where the requirements are not so demanding, especially when it comes to write-latency."

"Only AWS and Azure public clouds are currently available from China, and I would like to see support for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high, I rate the price a seven."

"I find the price reasonable for our I environment."

"You need to pay additional costs for support."

"The solution is quite costly."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"On a scale of one to ten, if one point is a cheap solution and ten points is very expensive, I rate the product price an eight."

"The pricing models may be for general purposes, such as Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume or Amazon EBS Cold HDD Volumes."

"The product is low-priced than other solutions."

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"For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA."

"The cost is quite high."

"We purchased the product directly from NetApp."

"Some flexibility around the licensing model would help. The product is licensed based on capacity. Basically, the largest capacity license that you can buy is 368 terabytes. At this point, NetApp is addressing some people's concerns around this."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

44%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

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Manufacturing Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Amazon's S3 Glacier or EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon's S3 Glacier or Elastic Block Store data storage software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Amazon's S3 Glacier, whi...

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What do you like most about Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

The durability and snapshot capabilities are good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?

The cost of Amazon EBS storage is high. I rate the price as eight out of ten. It is expensive to store a lot yet provides significant cost-efficiency as I pay only for the storage time required.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability. Amazon EBS volumes offer the consistent and low-latency performance needed to run your workloads. With Amazon EBS, you can scale your usage up or down within minutes – all while paying a low price for only what you provision.

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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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