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)."The AWS feature that I most enjoy is Lambda functions. I primarily use serverless components because they allow you to process things without having to compromise on resources like when running EC2 instances or virtual machines. With minimal effort, you can scale up an unlimited number of processes, even concurrently, to process things. I frequently work with web APIs, so I use Lambda a lot in this area."
"It's very stable and the performance is good."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"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."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"AWS for API, or Seller Central, is no improvement from what we had (our internal tools we designed to update accounts, change customer network profiles, monitoring, MRTG graphs, etc), when AWS should be blazing."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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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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