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."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."
"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 most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"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 customer support team are very responsive."
"This platform is popular with technical users because of the abilities for customization and fine-tuning performance."
"I have found this solution to be a quick and advanced way to run my models through."
"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."
"Google Cloud has low downtime."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud is its security."
"The most useful feature of Google Cloud is that it's basically completely managed or fully managed. There is no administration or maintenance needed from the user, and it's very simple to use."
"It is easy to use and has a very familiar interface."
"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"
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"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 an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"The product should be more cost-effective."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"I would like for this solution to improve its user interface and documentation."
"Integration is always something that can be improved."
"The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"Google Cloud could improve the integration with other solutions."
"The price of the license could be cheaper."
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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