We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Google Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"The main feature that I like the most is the variety of solutions that it provides. It provides some analysis, business information and more. It provides a wide variety of services."
"Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs."
"I like the flexibility of this solution."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"The solution is fairly easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud is its flexibility."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud is its security."
"It's a perfect tool for startups."
"The solution has improved our web apps so that we can have a canary deployment. GCP also helps us upload new features and changes to our software without impacting a lot of users with the network. The AI features have improved the software as well."
"What I like most about Google Cloud is its stability. I also like that its GUI works fine for my company."
"The stability of Google Cloud is currently good."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"The pricing could be a bit high at times. It's something they could improve upon."
"This solution could offer more security."
"There have been some issues in the past when it comes to file integrations in AWS's cloud products. However, there are now alternative solutions out there that are helping to integrate them all."
"The price could be better."
"It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"Faster API response times and an improved console experience would be better. Enhanced performance across APIs and the console would streamline our workflows."
"The price can be lowered significantly."
"I would improve the integration with other devices such as smartphones. It is integrated in our company, but I think it could be improved."
"Sometimes the Google documents are difficult to learn from. Amazon has better support material."
"My only concern is that a number of the offerings are built on their own proprietary technologies which means means that, with respect to the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers."
"The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available."
"Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"I would like for this solution to improve its user interface and documentation."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Cloud report.
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I have worked with AWS for 4 years now and I agree with the recommendation.
If you make some research AWS will be shown as the top solution in many white papers. We made an evaluation to compare it with Google and Azure. In our case, AWS is the most cost-effective.
Depending on the solution you are running you need to check the license cost for your servers. If you have a lot of Windows solutions Azure may be a better fit.
Regarding performance, we did have an incident where the complete region was unreachable. So, make sure to consider recovery sites.
I would like to recommend MS Azure to start with.
The reasons are:
1. I bet you're using many Microsoft tools, like Office 365, Team, etc. so you're pretty familiar with the MS UX which is excellent.
2. It's easy to start/learn Azure and configurations, they have very detailed documentation online.
3. It's relatively cheaper with Azure IaaS with good starting numbers of notes/services.