We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and Heroku based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to use and has a very familiar interface."
"The infrastructure is easy to manage."
"Google Cloud has low downtime."
"The performance is a valuable feature."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"The features I found most valuable are the cloud run and cloud function."
"Good storage and ease of access."
"The solution scales well."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."
"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"It would be nice if they could offer more free storage."
"The solution could improve by being less expensive."
"The product must provide AI features."
"Google Cloud could improve by having better integration with other platforms."
"The security features must be improved."
"Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English."
"An area of improvement would be in the of managing accounts in terms of what we are using for memory, availability, and monitoring."
"It is complex to set up."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"The tool's configuration is complex."
"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."
Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews while Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 28 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Heroku is rated 8.4. 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 Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, whereas Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Amazon Lightsail. See our Google Cloud vs. Heroku report.
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