Confidently recommend the use of IBM COS if you are using IBM services.
June 11, 2019
Confidently recommend the use of IBM COS if you are using IBM services.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Object Storage
Out app supports business practices for an entire arm of a company. All files that get parsed also get backed up in COS. Whenever we generate reports for the users, they also get put into COS for safe keeping. When we do DB backups we also dump those in COS as well. Basically it is a huge backup center and place for source documentation.
Pros
- The AWS wrapper scripts provide great interoperability cross-cloud.
- It is much faster than the swift storage implementation.
- It is a clean way to store files.
Cons
- If they had just used the aws boto_3 as it was and just changed the credentials piece, that would have made it even easier.
- The connection to their services isn't as fast as one would have expected.
- We found issues when pulling lots of files from one IBM service to the other.
- It has made making redundant backups easier
- Cost savings
- Good up-time
We have used AWS s3 excessively and found that it is incredibly reliable. We have found that AWS s3 uptime is better than IBM COS. We have also used Google and enjoyed the products that they have delivered as well. That being said, AWS and IBM have almost essentially the same SDK for storage and that is helpful.
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