Microsoft Azure Object Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud comparison

Microsoft and NetApp are both solutions in the Public Cloud Storage Services category. Microsoft is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetApp is ranked #20. Microsoft holds a 3.3% mindshare in PCSS, compared to NetApp’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Microsoft Azure Object Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud offer robust cloud storage solutions. Users are generally happier with the support and pricing of Microsoft Azure Object Storage. However, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud seems superior due to its extensive features, and users feel it justifies the higher price.

Features: Microsoft Azure Object Storage is praised for its secure data management, high availability, and reliable support. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is noted for its performance, ease of use, and seamless integration with Google Cloud services.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Microsoft Azure Object Storage could improve in interface intuitiveness, integration options, and documentation clarity. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud could benefit from enhanced data mobility, cost efficiency, and user interface enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Azure Object Storage shows a more straightforward deployment model, with users appreciating the responsive customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is recognized for its efficient deployment but with slightly slower customer service response times.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Azure Object Storage users find setup costs reasonable and see good ROI. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud exhibits higher initial setup costs but compensates with significant ROI due to its features and integrations.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure Object Storage

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

20th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (25th), Cloud Storage (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure Object Storage is 3.3%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is 1.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Public Cloud Storage Services Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure Object Storage	3.3%
NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud	1.7%
Other	95.0%

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Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

Customer improves data management with enhanced storage and enjoys challenge of optimizing performance

Microsoft Azure Object Storage can be improved in terms of performance. When using Data Lakes for analytics and frequently pulling data from our source database to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, there should be faster methods to download large data from Microsoft Azure Storage Blob to different locations. I did not receive much support in addressing this issue.

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Colin Constable

Co-Founder at Atsign

Enables us to fine-tune storage and capacity on the fly as our needs grow or shrink over time

NetApp delivers High Availability. It's critical to our work. That was the main driver for using NetApp. We have a highly resilient service and if you have a highly resilient service, you are only as resilient as the least resilient part of your infrastructure. That's what we were having trouble with our file system before. It was becoming troublesome, so we needed to find something that was much more highly resilient so that's why we moved to NetApp. The complexity of moving large numbers of files to the cloud depends on what you're trying to do. But for us, it was really simple. I imagine for large enterprise customers it is probably pretty tricky. They're probably on all different technologies inside a large corporation and they may or may not have very large pipes going to them. So if you're in a data center to the cloud then it's going to be easy, but if you have hundreds of branches like if you're a bank and have lots of branch banks, they might have very small pipes out to the internet. It might take forever. In our use case everything's brand new files, so it was pretty trivial. We didn't migrate to the cloud, we were already on the cloud, so it was a nonissue for us. NetApp enables us to share data across VMs. It actually reduced the amount of data storage we need. We were having to have storage attached to each VM. And now we can aggregate that storage across multiple VMs, so that actually gave us a net reduction, which was a good thing. We switched from using block storage to file storage to share data between our VMs. It made it easier, frankly but I worry about the scalability in the future. For the moment it made life easier. We were using block and then we moved back to file with NetApp.

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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

"The index search and block storage are valuable features."

"The ability to store everything inside Blob or Object storage and use it for archiving data is beneficial."

"What I have found most valuable about Microsoft Azure Object Storage is that I can store structured and non-structured files; apart from that, I can store storage and static contents, and if I want to share this with some external vendors, I can share that."

"The file retention and object retention have been most valuable."

"One valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Object Storage is that it provides REST API access to your data, allowing easy data consumption."

"The most valuable feature is the API because it is very flexible."

"The best thing is it's on the cloud. It's easily accessible to everyone through a mobile device, tablet, or laptop. Secondly, it's secure. Like any URL shared will not work after a few hours. Only the person concerned who has that URL can use it within a few hours to download the document. After that, it expires. Thirdly, we all keep an archive. For example, if there are old documents, they are still stored over there. Another nice Azure feature is that they have the regional set up for that storage, and there's no downtime, and I'm grateful for that. We don't have to worry, because it's secure. If something goes down, they have other copies of it on a separate server, and it's accessible."

"Azure cloud services are quite an easy solution with many tools to operate, such as the CLI, software development kit, and the portal."

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"In terms of its storage snapshot efficiencies, the service is highly efficient. We are only doing things in small batches right now because we have not converted all of the data, but we have tested them in the Google Cloud and they work efficiently."

"High availability is very important to us because we have a production environment. High availability is the highest priority for us to continue keeping our systems running."

"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero. I was personally running all the infrastructure for the company. Now that we've moved to NetApp, I don't have to worry about making sure it's up and running. It's made my life personally much better."

Cons

"I think if the tool puts features that only exist in the easy copying area through Azure Storage Explorer, so introducing such features in Microsoft Azure Object Storage can make it more user-friendly."

"The deployment process needs improvement, and it requires a lot of expertise to use and to utilize it."

"A more comprehensive training option is needed."

"Its user interface could be better."

"It would be great if Microsoft could provide rule-based auto-scaling."

"Technical support should be a little bit faster."

"Uploading files from the UI has presented some issues. When editing work and once you delete a file, it takes some time to recreate the same file."

"The efficiency depends on various operations, and therefore, it should involve multiple vendor support."

More Microsoft Azure Object Storage cons

"The user interface has room for improvement. We would like this service to be more integrated with Azure, which is very easy to manage and use. It was easy to create volumes and add capacity pools in Azure, but in Google Cloud, we can only create separate volumes. We need more management or configuration options in the user interface."

"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those. They're not using any AI tools, currently, on the administrative side."

"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features. So it would be nice if I heard a little bit more from him. From a technology perspective, I have no complaints."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a pay-as-you-go model. So, you are only paying for what you store. It's an attractive model. You don't pay for a set; you pay for what you actually use."

"For the cloud, you get charges every day if you are going to download anything, besides the cost for storage those charges are always there."

"The pricing is competitive."

"The pricing can be improved. There is an yearly licensing cost for the solution. There are some reserve instances that are additional to the licensing cost."

"The price will be more competitive when we increase the time spent using the tool. For our company's size range, I think the price is okay."

"Currently, it is a flexible price policy."

"Pricing is always confusing for all Microsoft products. For this solution, they do provide the estimates, but it is not easy to guess the exact amount that we will be billed."

"The tool's licensing costs are annual. It should be made reasonable."

More Microsoft Azure Object Storage pricing and cost advice

"We don't need so much space, and there is no option to pay as we go or use just what we need. Also, the only way to increase performance is by increasing the level of the service."

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Top Industries

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Marketing Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	21

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Object Storage?

The layout of Microsoft is professional.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Object Storage?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Azure Object Storage is very good.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Object Storage?

The customer support for Microsoft Azure Object Storage is not good. If a good engineer is assigned, then it functions well. However, every time we are doing troubleshooting, it is not Microsoft.

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Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Azure Object Storage, MS Azure Object Storage

CVS for Google Cloud, NetApp CVS for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for GCP, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for GCP

Overview

REST-based object storage for unstructured data in the cloud

Store infrequently accessed data in a low-cost cool storage tier
Store frequently accessed application data in a hot storage tier
Stream video, audio, and other media to web, mobile, or desktop applications
Power big data analytics
Access your data more securely, both over the wire and at rest

Microsoft

NetApp^® Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud is a fully managed or self-managed file service that is integrated into Google Cloud with the multiprotocol support, performance, and availability required to run business-critical applications. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.

Use cases. Customers can use the service to migrate existing enterprise applications to Google Cloud. Other use cases include hybrid deployments, multicloud mobility, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, container storage, and more.

Features. Multiple performance tiers, standard file interfaces, advanced data management, metered service, fully managed service, native service experience, integrated support, and integrated billing.

For more information:

NetApp: https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes-service-for-gcp

Google: https://cloud.google.com/netapp

NetApp

Sample Customers

Umbraco, Xbox, Radioshack, 343 Industries, McKesson

Atos, Bandwidth, Wuxi NextCode

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