We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"It integrates well."
"AWS is constantly growing in features with every new version. It's a good cloud provider with excellent availability. The integration is good, and their security products are interesting. Amazon is always innovating and delivering new products to customers."
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"It is intuitive, easy to deploy, and rather quick to deploy and set up. There are a number of native services in the ecosystem. These services are built into the cloud and are mature enough to support you in many ways."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"Amazon support could be better."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"We don't know whether to increase server capacity or alert notifications. We don't know which hard disc to purchase or what the next recommended CPU is. There should be an indicator. We would like to have more guidance."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 21st in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. 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 SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with .
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