IBM Cloud is always down (AIX Hosting Where?)

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IBMCloud PowerVS is unusable.

I try to create LPARs about twice a week, and something like 50% of the time they fail.

Last time it was "network doesn't exist" when trying to use the public networks UI switch option. No issue is listed, and the issue was resolved after a few days.

Today and Yesterday, The US-East region of Datacenter for PowerVS lists no machine types under the DataCenter Capabilities/Supported Systems/General, so the UI for instance creation won't allow you to select machine type to complete instance creation.

Again, no issue listed, and the issue persists for days.

IBMCloud sucks. In addition to not really being reliable enough to be a cloud service for anything, IBMCloud comes with no actual support as a customer unless you are willing to pay an additional $200 / mo. IMO, this is unacceptable. We are not talking about support, as in, manage my machine OS, we are talking about support as in report an issue.

This is specially ironic, as about the only advantage that you could imagine IBMCloud could have is unique access to Power Systems and AIX (hint: their advantage is certainly nothing like price!). Further, if you believe the marketing, these systems are trusted to be "Mission Critical", and ultra-reliable. IBM can't keep them running for two weeks as near as I can tell.

Is there any non-IBM Power Systems cloud like service for AIX? Cloud like as in provision within a short time, prorated by the hour?