We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Dell ECS based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Amazon AWS seems to be the marginally superior solution. Our reviewers found Dell ECS’s supporting documentation to be incomplete.
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"A scalable and secure product"
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"AWS has a lot of flexibility, which is great."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"The scalability is good."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The performance is good."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"We would like to see if AWS includes any inbuilt automation. Also, we are very interested in AWS's AI/ML features, as well as IoT, AR, and VR."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"The setup is very complex."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"The disaster recovery could be improved because there should be something in-built within the ECS. Search and recovery should be in-built. Right now, we have to use some external tools for performing the recovery itself. For example, we're using Atempo or deploying Golden Superna, so it has dependency on the external third party vendors."
"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Dell ECS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and IBM Public Cloud, whereas Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING.
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