IBM Cloud is IBM's enterprise public cloud spanning IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, including VPC virtual servers, bare-metal servers, object and block storage, and managed databases. It targets regulated enterprises in finance, healthcare, and government, emphasizing security, compliance, and hybrid/on-prem integration via Red Hat OpenShift. It offers IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (a certified managed Kubernetes) alongside OpenShift, and maintains a broad compliance portfolio including FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. 'Lite' service plans are always free and a free managed Kubernetes cluster is offered, though compute is otherwise usage-billed.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2017
- Pricing tier
- High
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $25/mo
- Regions
- 10
- Availability zones
- 33
- SLA uptime
- 99.99%
- Managed Kubernetes
- Yes
- Helm support
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- Vendor lock-in
- Medium
- Open standards
- Yes
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- Yes
- Org size
- Enterprise
- Support tier
- Enterprise
- Ease of use
- 3/5
Categories & compliance
Categories
Compliance
SOC2ISO27001HIPAAPCI-DSSFedRAMPGDPR