[dsmcr]

FWIW - IBM Cloud today has basically no benefit over AWS, Azure or GCE or even against some of the smaller regional players like AliCloud. The notable exception would be if you need to run a bare metal solution and leverage their free backbone which is a pretty narrow use case these days. The main selling point previously was to stand up your own VMware environment but even that came with a laundry list of caveats (unsupported hardware, limited VLANs, non-flexible IP space) that made it painful to use. Today AWS is vastly more performant, flexible, reliable and has a bunch of useful services you don't get from IBM Cloud.

[nojito]

Price isn’t a benefit?

[dsmcr]

It would be except IBM Cloud is never cheaper than AWS.