Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Elastic Block storage is a great tool to augment your existing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and allows you a good way to add, move and adjust storage. It is great also for a back up solution for your virtual resources that are in the cloud to be used in cases of disaster recovery.

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Manager in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Heavier usage of processor and/or memory with higher network requirements. Such as a robust, vertical database cluster or a robust Redis cluster. Their bare metal offerings are very suited for these use-cases as well as data-science requirements for modeling servers. Basically, anything that requires a large hardware requirement, these servers can deliver.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Online Media Company, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

A cost-effective way to provide storage to virtual machines
Easy and efficient way to create back ups of images
Very quick storage request and provisioning

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Manager in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Multiple locations for distributed computing allowing faster download speeds for our customers and staff alike
Full service of domain registrations, SSL purchases, server rental, DNS servers, etc. This allows us to keep all of our necessary related services within a single console and single billing system.
Good backup system with off-site backup servers and easy disaster recovery

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Eric Thomas

IT supervisor

Internet and Mail Order Co. Ltd.Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Cost can be confusing to determine
The initial learning curve can be confusing unless you know what's going on with AWS
You can lose track of EBS if you aren't organized

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Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Ability to switch OS/platform license to customer's own license without being re-deploy.
Procedure for easy hardware refresh (especially hard drive) to ease cloning content to new hard drive. We have a 6 years disk and we very concern about it.
Other than that, everything is OK.

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1-10 employees

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Usability

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) 8.0

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Amazon EBS is a great tool and fairly easy to use as long as you are familiar with the Amazon Web Service ecosystem. It allows a great way for you to move storage around easily and allows you to quickly provision storage as needed based on the business requirement. For us, it's easy to move between our EC2 images that had been linked with EBS storage between these Amazon accounts.

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Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) 8.0

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The support for Amazon Elastic Block Store is great as long as you can articulate your needs. Like most tools, there may be some back and forth before you find a support person that is knowledgable in the tool and can provide you with necessary insights.

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers 7.7

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The support is decent and in an emergency they will help you if you make enough noise. However the creation of "class of customers" within the IBM ecosystem I think is a step backwards as it can put emergencies on the back burner simply because we didn't pay enough in monthly fees

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers 8.2

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I've used IBM professional services in a few cases (not for my company but for some of my clients), and the people in professional services are really helpful. You call them and set a meeting for the initial planning session, but they usually most of the work already done, they just ask some questions and they fill in the blanks. However, in some cases implementation can take longer than planned.

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Gerardo Fernandez Ruiz

Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Block Store is a very good scaling solution for storage if you are invested in AWS. It provides a quick and easy way for you to easily get all the storage you need at and adjust it if you need more or less storage for your projects.

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Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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We've also had good success with Mac colocation services like MacStadium, being cheaper with unlimited networking, quite dependable and also very flexible when used with VMware, but with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers we have a lot more options on data center locations, fantastic network routing between data centers and any server capacity I would need. With regards to Azure, AWS, etc., those models just don't work for our projects, too many restrictions on networking and other details. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are just easier.

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Gustavo Villarreal

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Telecomunicaciones VGInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Gives us an easy way to manage and move assets around VMs.
Allows a quick and easy way to clone existing images.
Gives us an efficient way to back up and restore images.

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Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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This service helps us to have a professional hosting service in less than a week.
We had to get quality hardware in a professional managed data center. The cost was higher than if we had had an in-house solution, but totally worth it.
The higher cost vs cloud was a factor to switch to another cloud provider.

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Project Manager in Social Media

Entertainment Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Editions & Modules

Edition

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers	starting at $0.51¹
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers	starting at $324.00²

per hour
per month

Additional Pricing Details

IBM Bare Metal Servers provide performance, flexibility, on-demand provisioning, and control. Choose between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or customize with single to quad processing solutions that range from 4 to 72 cores. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts so you can build the best solution for your workloads. Order a monthly bare metal server built to spec, and we’ll have it to you in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. Order an hourly bare metal server, and we’ll have it ready for you in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.

Rating Summary

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers