IBM Cloud Object Storage Review

We use COS as document storage for our document management system, and it serves its purpose: it stores documents that can be retrieved at a reasonable speed and at a reasonable price.

Some time ago, we submitted a suggestion for improvement regarding the backup functions of COS. Recently, a significant improvement called “backup policies” was announced. We are very much looking forward to implementing this, as it is one of the most important issues for an application that stores files with adequate backup in accordance with GDPR regulations.

The reliability because that would be fatal for our use case, in three years we had one issue and that was a general problem of the IBM cloud, not the COS but there was no data loss. The cost effectiveness and the fast deployment which is crucial for a cloud business.

Starting our cloud business, which is in our case impossible without a powerful, fast and reliable object storage, so having that was one of the major key points to chose a hyperscaler.
Of course, the back up policies and the decoupling in this managed services, eased the operation of it too.