Item: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our production, testing, and dev servers all run IBM Cloud VPC.

Pros and Cons

Identity management - we are able to set different roles and access levels for the users.
Rest APIs makes it so easy to automate certain tasks.
IBM Cloud cost calculator determines the estimated costs and helps utilize the resources effectively.
They have a great support team.

Needs to add scheduled snapshot feature.
Should add more regions in the VPC.
Definitely needs to improve the documentation.

Return on Investment

We could get more CPU and RAM for lesser price. So we were able to support more users.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reserved Servers

We have only 4 virtual server instances on the IBM Cloud. We never had to reserve machines.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Dedicated Hosts

Dedicated hosts drastically improved the application's stability and performance. The application was able to utilize resources like CPU and RAM to their fullest.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Google Compute Engine

IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Foundry
IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Cloud has two types of infrastructure, classic and VPC infrastructure. Classic is their existing IaaS platform. It doesn't support IAM, but it has more regions and customization options. It also supports bare-metal and virtual servers. Whereas, VPC infrastructure is their new IaaS platform suitable for cloud-native applications. It only supports virtual servers. They both cost the same. So choose one that meets your needs.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers - Reliable but not fancy

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers