We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS 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."I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53."
"The installation and initial setup are easy."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The services that we are using have frequent updates, at least twice a year. They provide a new version that has more capabilities or features that fit our process and procedures."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"The solution has improved our web apps so that we can have a canary deployment. GCP also helps us upload new features and changes to our software without impacting a lot of users with the network. The AI features have improved the software as well."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"This platform is popular with technical users because of the abilities for customization and fine-tuning performance."
"Google Cloud's most valuable attribute is its capability for on-demand auto-scaling, and it also simplifies numerous intricate tasks for its users."
"I haven't had any trouble setting up Google Cloud."
"The customer service team for this solution is very knowledgeable."
"The solution is fairly easy to deploy."
"Simple to use on the web, and makes things easy for a software developer."
"The networking is overly complex."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."
"You'll probably experience some sticker shock with AWS. You attempt to understand the cost, but you don't realize what you're paying until you get your first bill. I don't know if Amazon does that on purpose, but costs can get out of control quickly if you don't have someone who specializes in AWS cost management."
"I'm just bugged by the charges that I'm not really able to manage."
"As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"The security of the solution can always be improved."
"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."
"Google is slower to support .NET."
"I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud."
"Google Cloud lacks some tools for database migration. I've only used MySQL and AWS in my career, so those are the only ones I can compare. AWS has a database migration tool that you can integrate with a cloud backup, so can take that backup and restore it in the AWS public cloud, but it's not the same with Google Cloud."
"Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
"The Notes application could be better."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Cloud 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.