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's very user-friendly."
"I like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS."
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"One of the most valuable features is that Amazon AWS has a lot of data centers and regions where we can position our virtual machines for leverage. Amazon AWS is also easy to use. You can quickly spin up something, use Explorer, building proofs of concept, things like that. Once the proof of concept is built once and we know how things are going to look from a production perspective, we try to move everything to the data centers. These features and the ease of use are the main reasons why we use AWS."
"The monitoring is the most valuable aspect of the product."
"We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions."
"In general, the cost management in Amazon is complicated. It's not too straightforward."
"One of the most valuable things about it, besides the stability, is that you can forget about infrastructure because you're just doing it on AWS. I remember the times before AWS and other cloud solutions existed, and it was a huge pain to get real hardware, put it inside, configure everything, report everything, and do a scale. It was very, very difficult compared to how it is now. Not even just AWS, but what all these cloud providers are doing, I would say, is a huge advancement in technology."
"What I like most in IBM Public Cloud is how easy it is to create serverless functions. They are called IBM functions, but in AWS, they are called Lambda functions. Those are pretty standard, and another thing I like the most is that you have fewer restrictions on the amount of data you can transfer across those functions. IBM Public Cloud is way more flexible than AWS. I also like that IBM Public Cloud is pretty straightforward to integrate. As long as you have all the tools IBM provides you, getting everything up and running is straightforward."
"I've found the stability to be excellent. The performance is good."
"It is a scalable product. You can scale it up and down."
"There is no installation for this product because it is a cloud product."
"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."
"It is easy to deploy what you need for the initial setup"
"I think the price can be improved."
"Some features may be better in Azure or some other portal. AWS could add some of those features."
"Amazon tools are for more mature DevOps. The process and the Dev is very good, but it doesn't compare to the ease of using the Google Cloud Platform."
"The pricing is something you have to watch. You really have to constantly optimize your costs for instances and things like that. That can become a job in itself to manage just from a budgeting standpoint."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"The price could be better."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"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."
"It could be more secure."
"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."
"They do not have a very good virtual network implemented, and the VPC is the most important feature that needs to be improved."
"The initial setup and the pricing are areas that need improvement."
"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 167 reviews while IBM Public Cloud is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 6 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while IBM Public Cloud is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Flexible, scales well, and offers good stability". 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 Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform, OpenShift, Linode and Oracle Cloud Platform, whereas IBM Public Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Platform, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Dell ECS. 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.