We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Google Compute Engine 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."In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The installation process is very simple."
"Amazon AWS is very stable."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"I like ETL, the EC2 platform, and Route 53. These features are a great complement to the basic infrastructure of any company. The AWS platform has many features, but the fundamental cloud infrastructure is the most important."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"The support for ephemeral instances has been particularly valuable for me. It allows me to significantly reduce costs for temporary virtual machines by automatically destroying them once they are no longer needed, which can result in cost savings of up to 90 percent. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"The features that should be improved are that there should be better clarity on their invoicing. There are so many things they charge for - high line items in the invoice. I think there should be more clarity and more ease of use with their billing. I'd like to see better ease of use of with the billing console and a clear dashboard to understand the usage."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"Amazon support could be better."
"One of the issues I'm facing is that my RDS SQL Server version 5.8 is reaching its end of life, and I need to upgrade it to a customer-wanted version. I want to do this on Graviton instances, but Graviton only starts with version 8.0 and currently doesn't support the 5.8 series. We've raised a Priority Feature Request (PFR) with AWS to have this functionality added for at least three months. This would give us enough time to upgrade our database to the 8.0 version without any issues."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"Google Compute Engine does not have many options at a lower tier level. If they had more options it will be better. For example, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, have more options and different types of instances, of VMs we can select."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"There have been instances when a customer has tried to deploy a certain number of VMs inside a project, and they come across quota issues."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"It has some limitations. For example, you don't get through layer two connectivity. So I've had some difficulty deploying custom VMs. For example, you can't deploy a KVM file to file directly on GCP."
"The biggest problem is that it's got a very archaean and complex security environment that has to be very carefully set up and is easy to break."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Compute Engine is ranked 10th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8. 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 Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Compute Engine report.
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