Huawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS) vs IBM Cloud Block Storage

HEHuawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS)8.9Visit IBM Cloud Block Storage8.8Visit

Higher score HE Huawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS) #5 in Block Storage Services 8.9/10 Paid ✓ 3 of 4 features Visit Huawei Cloud

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IBM Cloud Block Storage #6 in Block Storage Services 8.8/10 Paid ✓ 2 of 4 features Visit IBM Cloud

• Huawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS) fits best

  High-IOPS Huawei Cloud deployments

• IBM Cloud Block Storage fits best

  IBM Cloud VPC workloads

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Side by side

Feature	HEHuawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS) 8.9/10 Visit ↗	IBM Cloud Block Storage 8.8/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.9	8.8
Ranking	#5 in Block Storage Services	#6 in Block Storage Services
Best for	High-IOPS Huawei Cloud deployments	IBM Cloud VPC workloads
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	—	Not checked yet
Free plan	—	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Live chat, Tickets, Docs	Phone, Tickets, Community, Docs
Integrations	6 integrations	4 integrations
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Huawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS) 3/4 · IBM Cloud Block Storage 2/4
Snapshots	✓	✓
Multi-attach	✓ (best)	—
Encryption	✓	✓
Cross-region replication	Not checked yet	—
Specs
Max volume size	32 TB	32 TB
Volume types	Extreme SSD; Ultra-high I/O; General Purpose SSD; General Purpose SSD V2; High I/O; Common I/O	sdp, general-purpose, 5iops-tier, 10iops-tier, custom
Maximum IOPS	128000 IOPS (best)	64000 IOPS
Our review
Pros	Up to 128,000 IOPS per disk with Extreme SSD and SSD V2 Online expansion, snapshots, encryption, backups, and monitoring Shared disks can attach to up to 16 cloud servers	Profiles support tiered, custom, and defined-performance configurations. Supports volumes up to 32,000 GB and performance up to 64,000 IOPS. Offers snapshots, encryption, and provisioning through Terraform, CLI, API, and console.
Cons	No free plan is available Performance varies by disk type and selected tier Cross-region continuity relies on Cloud Backup and Recovery	There is no multi-attach support for sharing a volume across instances. Cross-region protection uses snapshot copying rather than live volume replication. The service is paid and pricing varies by region, profile, capacity, and billing period.
Our verdict	Huawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS) provides virtual block storage for Huawei Cloud servers through web and REST API access. It supports system and data disks across workloads such as databases, development and testing, distributed… Read the review →	IBM Cloud Block Storage provides persistent SSD-backed block volumes for IBM Cloud VPC virtual servers and containerized applications. It supports both boot and data volumes, making it suitable for enterprise applications, databases,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Huawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS) — where it wins

  • Up to 128,000 IOPS per disk with Extreme SSD and SSD V2
  • Online expansion, snapshots, encryption, backups, and monitoring
  • Shared disks can attach to up to 16 cloud servers

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan is available
  • Performance varies by disk type and selected tier
  • Cross-region continuity relies on Cloud Backup and Recovery

• IBM Cloud Block Storage — where it wins

  • Profiles support tiered, custom, and defined-performance configurations.
  • Supports volumes up to 32,000 GB and performance up to 64,000 IOPS.
  • Offers snapshots, encryption, and provisioning through Terraform, CLI, API, and console.

  Where it doesn't

  • There is no multi-attach support for sharing a volume across instances.
  • Cross-region protection uses snapshot copying rather than live volume replication.
  • The service is paid and pricing varies by region, profile, capacity, and billing period.

• HEHuawei Cloud Elastic Volume Service (EVS)8.9/10 · Paid

  A flexible EVS service for Huawei Cloud workloads that need selectable disk performance.

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• IBM Cloud Block Storage8.8/10 · Paid

  A flexible block storage service for IBM Cloud VPC workloads and Kubernetes storage.

  Visit IBM CloudFull verdict →