We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure 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 is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud is its security."
"The stability of Google Cloud is currently good."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"I like the simple features that allow me to share documents with others."
"The solution is scalable."
"The availability of content on the solution is very valuable."
"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"Reduces work for our IT teams and saves us a lot of time."
"The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"It is really scalable and easy to use."
"It's easy to use, and it's scalable. If we want to grow our product more, we can do it."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"An area of improvement would be in the of managing accounts in terms of what we are using for memory, availability, and monitoring."
"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."
"Its integration with one of the third-party platforms could be better."
"The management side for the database needs some work. Currently, you do everything from the APP. It would be nice to have an interface where you can go in and maintain data and deal with records and do something online."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"The product's initial setup process and stability need improvement."
"The solution needs a more integrated password feature."
"It should have a better hybrid-cloud central analysis. Their support service also needs to be improved. Our main concern is support calls. Our issue is basically related to the technical functionality of the services that we use. It doesn't behave as expected, and support often fails to solve the problem."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure 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 Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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I have worked with AWS for 4 years now and I agree with the recommendation.
If you make some research AWS will be shown as the top solution in many white papers. We made an evaluation to compare it with Google and Azure. In our case, AWS is the most cost-effective.
Depending on the solution you are running you need to check the license cost for your servers. If you have a lot of Windows solutions Azure may be a better fit.
Regarding performance, we did have an incident where the complete region was unreachable. So, make sure to consider recovery sites.
I would like to recommend MS Azure to start with.
The reasons are:
1. I bet you're using many Microsoft tools, like Office 365, Team, etc. so you're pretty familiar with the MS UX which is excellent.
2. It's easy to start/learn Azure and configurations, they have very detailed documentation online.
3. It's relatively cheaper with Azure IaaS with good starting numbers of notes/services.