I'm also interested in this. We are doing a rewrite of the backend of our app and I'm leaning towards IBM for the easiness of their dashboard, developer experience, CLI, etc. I find it to be much easier than Google's offerings (which we're currently still relying on primarily). My background is in design thinking and IBM has been a leader in the design thinking arena for a long time. I think it shows through in the experience they provide.
We also have used IBM's sentiment and personality analysis tools for well over a year and they are phenomenal compared to Google's (and I haven't found anything comparable from AWS).
I also feel they do a better job of supporting the open source community than Amazon does. The stink of Amazon's controversy last year really left a bad taste in my mouth. Meanwhile, it seems like IBM does more to bolster large open-source projects (such as Openwhisk). Many of their services seem to be more of a marketplace model than Amazon's "copy, privatize, and market" strategy. With IBM, marketplace offerings are first-class citizens.
The biggest concern I have is the lack of community. For example, the last release of the Openwhisk package for the Serverless framework was over a year ago and there is much less focus on CI/CD tools and plugins for IBM's services compared to AWS.
With all that said, I've only used their functions and sentiment offerings, so I don't know about the rest of their services. I'm coming away very impressed though!
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I'm also interested in this. We are doing a rewrite of the backend of our app and I'm leaning towards IBM for the easiness of their dashboard, developer experience, CLI, etc. I find it to be much easier than Google's offerings (which we're currently still relying on primarily). My background is in design thinking and IBM has been a leader in the design thinking arena for a long time. I think it shows through in the experience they provide.
We also have used IBM's sentiment and personality analysis tools for well over a year and they are phenomenal compared to Google's (and I haven't found anything comparable from AWS).
I also feel they do a better job of supporting the open source community than Amazon does. The stink of Amazon's controversy last year really left a bad taste in my mouth. Meanwhile, it seems like IBM does more to bolster large open-source projects (such as Openwhisk). Many of their services seem to be more of a marketplace model than Amazon's "copy, privatize, and market" strategy. With IBM, marketplace offerings are first-class citizens.
The biggest concern I have is the lack of community. For example, the last release of the Openwhisk package for the Serverless framework was over a year ago and there is much less focus on CI/CD tools and plugins for IBM's services compared to AWS.
With all that said, I've only used their functions and sentiment offerings, so I don't know about the rest of their services. I'm coming away very impressed though!