We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and IBM Public Cloud based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon AWS is the solution our users like best, due to its overall global reach and excellent responsive support. Additionally, the diversity of software tools available, lower operating costs, and excellent customer service make it a very complete solution.
"As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"They integrate well with various other solutions."
"This is a predictable and dependable service."
"It is easy to deploy what you need for the initial setup"
"The price of IBM Cloud is most valuable for us. The service is personable and gives us a good rapport. I can't say it's the best, but it was enough for our needs."
"It is a scalable product. You can scale it up and down."
"The beauty of cloud service providers, especially public cloud service providers, is that they are scalable every time when you need them because their payment model is pay-as-you-go."
"One of the features that I really like about IBM Cloud is the flexibility where you can order your own hardware."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations."
"There is no installation for this product because it is a cloud product."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"Normally, for any cloud, we get a lot of information on the web, but that is missing in the case of IBM Public Cloud. We need some technical support documents. That is the only thing missing in IBM Public Cloud."
"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."
"The solution needs to be more autonomous. It should let the DL go to allow for more jobs on the cloud. It could have a better interface as well."
"While they have about 99% of what we need, the only exception, perhaps, was the push notification feature that was discontinued. They delayed the replacement product."
"It could be more secure."
"The initial setup and the pricing are areas that need improvement."
"Recently, we just faced some issues with the operating system due to the end of life of CentOS 6...So, then the client wanted to try it out under AWS instead of IBM. In short, it has some complexities."
"They do not have a very good virtual network implemented, and the VPC is the most important feature that needs to be improved."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while IBM Public Cloud is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 16 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while IBM Public Cloud 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 IBM Public Cloud writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and has helpful support". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud, whereas IBM Public Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Cloud, Salesforce Platform and Heroku. See our Amazon AWS vs. IBM Public Cloud report.
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I agree with Vik and Marcelo.
AWS cloud is more matured, but you would like to run some specific IBM business tools like document management, IBM Watson for AI, SPSS analytics then IBM Cloud should be preferred.
Amazon AWS is superior to IBM public for several reasons.
The most important reason is the diversity of software tools, the geographic diversity and availability, lower operating costs and excellent customer service. All cloud companies are simply playing catch-up to AWS.