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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

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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 Internet Services

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.

    $275

    per month, per domain

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Internet Services
    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 Internet Services - Standard
    $275.00
    per month, per domain
    IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Internet Services
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Internet Services
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    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    I have used DigitalOcean and Google Compute Engine on a trial period. EC2 was the best choice for my team due to the level of features it offers plus the ability to integrate it quickly given that we were already using so many other AWS Microservices. Getting up and running …
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    IBM
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Internet Services
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and IBM Cloud Internet Services
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    IBM Cloud Internet Services
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)IBM Cloud Internet Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)