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No they are not (only) that. IBM is a global cloud provider on par with the rest as far as the basic offers go.

IBMs cloud is on par? With whom? Certainly not AWS and Azure. Nor GCP. Not even with OCI.

IBM doesn't have it's own cloud, it runs on AWS.

Edit: I was confused by this:

That is an outright lie. I’ve seen IBM data centers.

The most basic googling will show this is a lie.

IBM cloud has nothing to do with AWS or any other provider. It is an autonomous provider just like AWS, Azure, Google, Alibaba, etc

Disclaimer: Close friend works there.

Jesus, get your facts straight before shooting such inaccuracies.