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Likelihood to Recommend
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
If you're already a customer of IBM, or using an IBM product through an ASP or reseller, or you need access to the hundreds of services IBM provides, it's a great place to build out your infrastructure.
If you're an established company slowly adding VMs, a smaller provider in the vast digital ocean of choices may be better.
Co-founder
CenturyLinkFinancial Services, 1-10 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
8.1
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
8.2
Dynamic scaling
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
8.0
Elastic load balancing
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
7.6
Pre-configured templates
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
8.1
Monitoring tools
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
8.0
Pre-defined machine images
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
8.1
Operating system support
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
8.9
Security controls
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
7.9
Pros
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
- The pricing options for services is awesome, offering bare-metal and other high-demand services at hourly rates.
- Softlayer offers a huge assortment of high-powered services, such as Nvidia Tesla GPU computing, high-bandwidth connection options, and highly customizable bare-metal servers
- All of Softlayers' plans and services are fully adaptable to to fit your needs, with a huge amount of options for both the services they offer and the management options available for those services.
Sr. Network Engineer
GodAmongGeeks.ComInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
- The IBM Cloud Web UI is very slow and not responsive
- It would be nice to provide a direct way to choose a template image when creating a VSI
- It would be nice if transient VSIs can be resized (CPU and Mem)

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Team Lead in Information Technology
Research Company, 10,001+ employeesLikelihood to Renew
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 8.2
Based on 1 answer
It's hard to imagine not renewing having spent so much time setting up our infrastructure to utilise the CVS

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Strategist in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSupport Rating
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 7.5
Based on 2 answers
It is adequate, but you need to be ready to argue your point - which is fair enough, I suppose, but being given the opposite of the benefit of the doubt every time does not necessarily result in an enjoyable user experience.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Utilities Company, 11-50 employeesAlternatives Considered
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
I have had a dedicated server for 20 years. The last company, Softlayer, got bought out by IBM, and the transition has been a very good one. When I started using IBM for all my hosting solutions, I became a really big fan. Everything has been a user-friendly experience. The products have been really easy to work with.
Owner / Creative Director / Developer / Digital Marketing
FanbuildInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
AWS CloudFormation
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
- Freed up our team to focus on working on our own products and not having to worry about maintaining and patching servers.
- On-demand procurement allowed our team to quickly spin up servers as needed and shut them down when work is done.
Program Manager
AppFusionsComputer Software, 1-10 employees
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—Pricing Details
AWS CloudFormation
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
AWS CloudFormation Editions & Modules
Edition
Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account | $0.00 |
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Handler Operation | $0.00092 |
- per handler operation
Additional Pricing Details
There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource.IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Editions & Modules
Edition
IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers | starting at $0.0381 |
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IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers | starting at $0.221 |
IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers | starting at $25.212 |
IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers | starting at $149.002 |
IBM Cloud Transient Virtual Servers | starting at $0.013 |
IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers | starting at $0.023 |
IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers | starting at $13.274 |
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- per month
- per hour
- per month