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.
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"It integrates well."
"I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
"We are mostly using EC2 compute and other resources. Most of our managed services are in AWS, which some of our clients prefer."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"AWS has large community support."
"Almost everything is good. It is a whole ecosystem. It is not only the storage, computing, or networking. It is interesting in the way all things are combined to form this ecosystem. It is a very well-built and logical ecosystem that has some small building blocks. These building blocks can be used in the right way to build a much bigger ecosystem that is robust, secure, scalable."
"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."
"The availability is second to none. Customer support is very good."
"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."
"One of the features that I really like about IBM Cloud is the flexibility where you can order your own hardware."
"It's straightforward, has a good environment and is cost-effective."
"This product is very good because it is accessible in remote locations, and anyone can deploy from any place."
"There is no installation for this product because it is a cloud product."
"The initial setup was very easy. It's quite straightforward. Deployment took about fifteen minutes. Everything is well organized."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"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 initial setup was very complex."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup and the pricing are areas that need improvement."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"They could improve on customizing reporting capabilities."
"Maybe performance enhancers and reports could be better improved. If they do so, it would be better. Of all the drawbacks I saw, this would be the biggest enhancement."
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.