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 is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the S3."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"The documentation is very good."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"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."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"I'd like to see integration with MySQL."
"The pricing is expensive"
"The availability could be better."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
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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, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with .
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