Recommended over AWS
February 18, 2021
Recommended over AWS
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Foundry
Recently I've built and run a web-app (trindfl.com) within IBM Cloud Foundry, which is drafting a tax declaration for interactive brokers (IBKR) traders. A user downloads her IBKR yearly activity reports (csv files), and then she uploads them to the web-app (IBM Cloud Foundry). In a few seconds the web-app, first, parses the uploaded reports, second, prepares the tax declaration file (xml), and, last, prepares an explanatory note (xlsx), which shows how IBKR report is aligned with Russian tax law. Brief analysis results are presented to the user so she can make a decision to purchase and download tax declaration and explanatory note files. All the uploaded and created files are deleted after a while.
- The IBM Cloud CLI software doesn't change my laptop environment (whereas AWS CF Python CLI does).
- IBM Cloud Foundry allows me to use the most recent versions of Python.
- With ready-to-use IBM Cloud Foundry and other IBM cloud services, I avoided costs for corresponding stuff. Leaning on the IBM service predictability, I expect highly efficient unit-sale-margin, which should lead to the total project payback period of one and a half to two years.
When I started with prototyping five months ago, I tried IBM Cloud Foundry and AWS, but finally I preferred IBM Cloud Foundry.
I selected IBM Cloud Foundry because IBM service CLI is quite simple to use in devops. It works with the recent versions of Python and it's not changing my Mac OS environment (and it doesn't try to install old versions of Python on my laptop as AWS CF CLI does). In addition, many IBM services provide free trials, so I don't need to pay for it during the system selection and prototyping stages.
I selected IBM Cloud Foundry because IBM service CLI is quite simple to use in devops. It works with the recent versions of Python and it's not changing my Mac OS environment (and it doesn't try to install old versions of Python on my laptop as AWS CF CLI does). In addition, many IBM services provide free trials, so I don't need to pay for it during the system selection and prototyping stages.