We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS 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."The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"The payment structure is very good."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"It's very easy to use."
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"The cloud storage based on S3 is one the most valuable services we have deployed since it allows us infinite scale in storage and extremely high durability."
"The installation process is very simple."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"It's the most engineer-friendly product compared to Amazon AWS or Azure."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"The solution helps to direct SSH into the machine at the click of a button. It also helps to deploy container images right from the UI. There is no need to manage the containers on the machine. I also like the tool’s Spot provision model."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"There have been some issues in the past when it comes to file integrations in AWS's cloud products. However, there are now alternative solutions out there that are helping to integrate them all."
"The price needs improvement."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"Some features may be better in Azure or some other portal. AWS could add some of those features."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"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."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"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."
"It has some limitations. For example, you don't get through layer two connectivity. So I've had some difficulty deploying custom VMs. For example, you can't deploy a KVM file to file directly on GCP."
"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."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8. 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 Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Compute Engine report.
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