From S3 to IBM COS
January 15, 2020

From S3 to IBM COS

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Object Storage

We have a few use-cases for IBM Cloud Object Storage:
1) Use as a remote backend for Terraform state
2) Use as network "file" storage mounted to our Kubernetes clusters across the globe
3) Use as durable object storage

Pros

  • Durability and reliability
  • S3 API compatibility

Cons

  • Terrible UI for navigation
  • Terrible IBM CLI (I am currently using S3 compatible API)
  • Hard to calculate. Best I can do is draw comparison on S3 vs IBM COS.
It's hard to compete with S3 when they were the first to do it. If the UI/CLI were as intuitive as AWS, I would rate it equal but unfortunately, I tend to use S3-compatible tools.
This may not serve as the compliment you deserve but we really like the compatibility with S3 API which made our migration from AWS to IBMC much easier. This also allows our team to utilize open-source utilities and frameworks.

IBM Cloud Object Storage Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.3
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Monitoring tools
5
Security controls
10

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