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)."Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use."
"With the pay-as-you-go model, we don't have to predict future IT needs. We can just scale up as we want. That helps with a lot of agility in deploying stuff in our IT infrastructure."
"The price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"Somehow Amazon associated their marketplace as a place to find images of various installs (preconfigured software) and was late in the game enabling and promoting SaaS-based solutions. Thus, the AWS marketplace has near zero awareness in the mind of the prospect to find solutions to various problems plaguing them."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"AWS support could be better."
"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."
"The solution could always be further improved on the commercial side of things. Amazon Web Services are not cheap. It would be ideal if it was less expensive for the customer."
"I think that the interface could be improved."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
"There is a bit of a learning curve. That said, it's likely no different than learning any other cloud."
"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 22nd 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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