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.
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"The product is easy to use."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"I've found the stability to be excellent. The performance is good."
"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."
"It is a scalable product. You can scale it up and down."
"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 easy to deploy what you need for the initial setup"
"The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations."
"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."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"I'm just bugged by the charges that I'm not really able to manage."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"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."
"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 could improve on customizing reporting capabilities."
"There is not a lot of support for this solution, which is something 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."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly deployment process in the next release of this solution."
"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."
"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."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 26 reviews while IBM Public Cloud is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 6 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while IBM Public Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform, Google Cloud, Heroku and Salesforce Platform. 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.