We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean 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."The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"Google Cloud performs well."
"Google Cloud has low downtime."
"Simple to use on the web, and makes things easy for a software developer."
"The automatic sync between my mobile device data and photos to the cloud is the most valuable feature."
"I like that it is free. It's easy to use, and it's reliable."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"This is a solution that's so easy to expand when you need it to. It's the best I've ever seen. It's much better than Azure."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Could provide more services."
"Integration is always something that can be improved."
"I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code."
"Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services."
"The price of the solution could be more transparent."
"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."
DigitalOcean is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Cloud report.
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