We performed a comparison between Google Cloud 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."Google Cloud has low downtime."
"Google Cloud is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"It's easy to work with."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to spin."
"It is stable. It is easy to learn and very straightforward."
"Google Cloud is easy to use and accessible anywhere."
"The availability has been increased."
"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."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"The product could always be a little bit less expensive."
"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."
"The solution should be more configurable for high-volume databases."
"If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes."
"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English."
"When companies grow at a larger scale, they may shift to a different cloud services provider like AWS or Oracle."
"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."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"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."
"I would like to improve the solution’s UI while deploying a container. It is sometimes hard to figure out the container’s details and format that you want to deploy. The tool does not give you a guide to find out the error and why the container is not starting up which could be because you have configured it wrong. This is always a hit on the setup."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"Google Compute Engine needs to have multi-region support. It would also be nice to have a tracking mechanism."
"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."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
Google Cloud is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews while Google Compute Engine is ranked 10th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift, whereas Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). See our Google Cloud vs. Google Compute Engine report.
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