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."The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"Good storage and ease of access."
"The infrastructure is easy to manage."
"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use."
"Google Meet is simple to use regarding configuration and recording sessions."
"The solution can scale."
"The solution's features are very good and our staff loves using them."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."
"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"The price could improve. Every customer would agree, that they would like the price to be reduced."
"The security features must be improved."
"It could have a reporting tool included."
"The Spanish version is in beta. It needs to be farther along."
"I find it hard to download items, especially on their operating system."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"Workload management could be better. Their pricing could also be more flexible."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"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."
"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."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
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 "Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases". 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.
See our list of best PaaS Clouds vendors.
We monitor all PaaS Clouds reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.