IBM Cloud Code Engine vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 9.3 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Code Engine
6.4
Ratings
22% below category average
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Scalability6.60 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.20 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
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IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
6.4
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
8.2
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Usability
6.2
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Support Rating
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6.4
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User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
Looking for a reasonably priced and dependable cloud solution, I suggest IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to everyone. For businesses needing excellent uptime and performance free from the trouble of running actual servers, it's fantastic. However, it may not be the best choice if you need hands on support for server configurations.
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It is a perfect application when you have multiple users and/or developers and you want to create rules and standards for access and the ability to change access levels. The reporting of usage is good, but adding more granularity into the metrics that have been used to measure are not specific enough. They provide detail but drilling into the detail would be more appropriate i.e. access to the baseline data.
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Pros
  • Server-less platform that is automatically managed
  • Pay per use - scale to zero results in an extremely cheap total cost of ownership.
  • There is no need for you to set the size, deploy, or scale container clusters yourself.
  • Auto scaling is always helpful and easy to use.
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  • Debug issues
  • Monitoring
  • allows many services form many different sources
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Cons
  • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
  • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
  • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
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  • Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director.
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Likelihood to Renew
Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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Usability
The product Cloud features setting was not that tricky, and the functions are easy to manipulate and provide quality Cloud services. The data connectivity through IBM Cloud Code Engine is very simple and the transfer speed is very impressive. A/B Testing using IBM Cloud Code Engine is effective performed and data security is on top.
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Support Rating
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Training and usage support available
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Alternatives Considered
Having only some hands-on with the other services, The cloud engine is considerably simpler to operate, with a very clear interface and management. Each application can be easily configured and altered without needing to know anything about different subscription tiers or the system's inner workings. But in the case of Lambda, Depending on the situation, Code Engine will fetch your source code and generate the container image. Code Engine supports both Dockerfile and the Cloud-Native Build bundle, which is preferable. It is possible to create applications that send messages based on events.
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1) One-stop solution for all the complex network connectivity managed by [IBM Cloud Managed Istio]. 2) Nice dashboard to understand the flow. 3) Easy to troubleshoot the service if any one of the APIs is not responding. 4) We can integrate it with Azure Kubernetes service and other cloud provider Kubernetes services. 5) Monitoring the health of the pods can be easily configured and alerts can be triggered very accurately with this tool.
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Return on Investment
  • IBM maintains the same high degree of security that has been essential for its operations since the dawn of the computing market while streamlining data governance in a real cloud model as a dependable business partner for organizations all across the globe.
  • Apart from providing the instruments needed for efficient work the user friendly interface helps non-IT professionals to understand the system in a limited period of time.
  • The latest IBM Cloud Code Engine design is based on an innovative approach to buying and bundling of products.
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  • Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI.
  • Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business.
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