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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

344 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

181 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    		N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

    Score8.7 out of 10
    		N/AIBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.

    $0.51

    per hour

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Editions & Modules
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $0.51
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $241.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—IBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    Nobuyuki Suzuki
    CAA (Chief Applications Architect) in Research & Development at F-TECH INC. (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    I considered AWS EC2, but found the difference in operating costs compared to IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to be too great.　It is the data transfer fee.AWS EC2: 0 cost for upload, pay-as-you-go for download　IBMCloud Bare Metarl Servers: no cost for both upload and downloadIn …
    Incentivized
    Sireesha Kotharu
    Senior Account Executive in Finance and Accounting at Bazaar setu (Internet, 51-200 employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    AWS and Google are also providing very similar solutions but when we take a closer look at our needs and the pricing model each of the providers have, it is quite obvious for us to choose IBM.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Cloud vs Bare Metal is a tough call. We chose EC2 to move our solution from IBM because we needed more flexibility. I believe that the choice of one or the other solution must be thought through very carefully. Neither of those is heaven. For us, the change comes in the …
    Incentivized
    Venkat Charan
    Co-Founder in Engineering at GoPlay (Computer Games, 1-10 employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    IBM Bare Metal Servers are super configurable. It's very easy to tailor them to your needs. The pricing is super cheap and they do come with included 20TB of free data transfer. For our company, we choose IBM Bare Metal Servers because they support GPU servers, unlike the …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Not sure as of yet. So far, it seems like it has a lot of nice features. If anything, we can definitely say it is easier to figure out what machine to deploy and configure over something like VMWare where you have to have a lot of training in order to do it just right. …
    Incentivized
    jonathan gough
    Data Scientist in Professional Services at Essextec (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    In general we have found that the provisioning and permissions and switching between instances of bare metal and virtual machines were easier in AWS than in IBM. Also the billing in AWS has much greater transparency. The UI interface is also easier to navigate and understand. …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    The servers themselves are a commodity product. Dell is Dell, HP is HP. When comparing vendors for this service, you are looking at price, SLA, and easy of use for support.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings8.877 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings8.661 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings8.551 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings8.057 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings8.270 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings8.361 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings8.476 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings8.574 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings7.77 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    8.2
    (81 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (23 ratings)