IBM Power Systems have been well known for the superior performance against x86, better scalability, higher system utilization, end to end full stack security, as well as long-standing leadership in reliability. Over 20,000 clients globally rely on the IBM Power platform for their mission critical workloads and many of them have been looking at cloud solutions to help accelerate business transformation.
However, a broad presence on tier 1 public cloud for running IBM i/AIX applications was not available until very recently.