AWS Batch vs. IBM Cloud Databases

More appropriate if you have a tech group that can use more of the AWS Batch rather than one or 2 things. It works great for me, but there was a huge learning curve the first week of using it. Now, I love it - and I hope to dig deep into other parts not just S3.

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Less Appropriate Scenario: 1) Small Scale or Low Budget Projects 2) Organizations with limited expertise in cloud technologies may find the learning curve steep, especially if they are not familiar with the IBM Cloud platform 3) If database requirements are highly dynamic and change frequently, the comprehensive features and management provided by IBM Cloud Databases might be overkill. A more flexible, self-managed solution could be preferable for adapting to rapid changes.

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• Easy to orchestrate and trigger jobs
• No time limit issues like lambda
• Multiple Jobs can be run in same single compute and job queue
• JOb queue can queue up task for parralled or serialization

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• The ease of setup was effortless. For anyone with development experience, a few simple questions such as name and login data will get you set up.
• The web application to manage cluster settings, billing settings and even introspect the data was simple and most importantly worked all the time. This can not always be said for web interfaces of other products.

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• Jobs monitoring dashboards are not matured
• Documentation and support is something which can be improved
• Sometime i faced the slow response or slow in performance i would say

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• Better cost reports, before just increasing to another tier, thus increasing the price. This is critical for early stage startups, where budget is tight.
• Add more data center options. As a comparison, a similar service, Aiven.io has dozen more options than Compose (basically all big cloud providers). We moved from AWS to Digital Ocean, which made us stop using Compose, since Compose forces us to be either on IBM or AWS.

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IBM is our trusted partner which never failed to meet our expectations. Stability, efficiency, usability and security is a must have for our business which is fully provided by IBM Cloud Databases

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Key advantages include cost-effectiveness through dynamic resource provisioning and the use of spot instances. It auto-scales to meet workload demands, allowing easy job submission via the AWS Management Console or SDKs. It integrates seamlessly with other services like S3 and CloudWatch. It features automatic retries for failed jobs. It allows for a custom computing environment tailored to specific needs

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IBM Cloud Databases' pricing structure is easy to understand, and if you choose the right product, you can operate your system at minimal cost. Although there is ample documentation available, there doesn't seem to be a user community running on it, so specific usage know-how and troubleshooting can sometimes take longer than expected.

Support is helpful enough, but we haven't always had questions answered in a satisfactory manner. At one time we realized that Compose had stopped taking database snapshots on its two-per-day schedule, and had in fact not taken one for many days. Support recognized the problem and it was fixed, but the lack of proactive checks and the inability to share exactly what happened has caused us to look elsewhere for production work loads

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We wanted to start everything on a scale & with fewer resources to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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The reason why I choose IBM Cloud Databases is that the IBM cloud toolset is already being used in other functions of the company and by using IBM Cloud Databases, the other cloud tools are better embedded and integrated. If the company is set to use amazon tools, I would go for rds.

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• Overall over business is able to save the cost
• Saved our times to improve the existing process
• Able to integrate with other applications as well, so that is plus point

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• Prove use cases prior to administering entire platform, obtain ROI faster
• Able to achieve the technological components of our advanced analytics team without full scale purchase of AI platform
• Developed several studies to prove out cloud Db value, speed to deploy

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