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.
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"I like AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"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."
"I've found the stability to be excellent. The performance is good."
"It's straightforward, has a good environment and is cost-effective."
"It is easy to deploy what you need for the initial setup"
"It is a scalable product. You can scale it up and down."
"An advantage of IBM Public Cloud is the bare metal server. We can take the bare metal server. It's not shared with anyone. We can deploy our applications without sharing them with anyone. That is an advantage of IBM Public Cloud."
"There is no installation for this product because it is a cloud product."
"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."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."
"Setup is somewhat complex."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"One area that could be improved is in data management. They could improve on the data side. For example, I see others with better cloud services and larger data computing capabilities."
"Customer access to APIs is limited so that logs cannot be checked properly."
"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."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly deployment process in the next release of this solution."
"An area for improvement in IBM Public Cloud is getting up-to-date information on how to set up everything. It's hard to find new documentation."
"The deployment can be a bit of a pain. There are a lot of packages and a lot of options and it can require complex configuration to get it right."
"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."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"They do not have a very good virtual network implemented, and the VPC is the most important feature that needs to be improved."
"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."
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.