We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Google Compute Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."Its ease of use is valuable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"The product is easy and quick to set up."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it."
"The most valuable feature is autoscaling."
"Amazon EC2 has plenty of scalability options to decrease or increase the number we need. Based on our bandwidth usage we may go for a higher or downgrade level. We can do it ourselves."
"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."
"The support for ephemeral instances has been particularly valuable for me. It allows me to significantly reduce costs for temporary virtual machines by automatically destroying them once they are no longer needed, which can result in cost savings of up to 90 percent. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"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."
"It's the most engineer-friendly product compared to Amazon AWS or Azure."
"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."
"There should be enhanced accessibility from any standpoint. The accessibility should be increased, particularly in scenarios where accessing the software on the Azure platform from the cloud can be complex. Simplifying this process would be beneficial. There are too many steps involved."
"The customization could be simplified."
"Built-in and/or integration with other services to proactively identify potential failures before they occur."
"Support doesn't share or give insights on OS-based issues. That needs to improve because if someone is buying an EC2 instance with the Windows server and SQL license, the client expects that there will be a minimum level of support."
"The monitoring part could be improved. When we're building and configuring things or doing database replication, EC2's monitoring could provide more information. It's hard to find the information I need in the graphs they provide."
"am concerned about the tool's data security."
"This solution could be improved with better pricing. If you continue using this solution over a long period of time, your costs may accumulate."
"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."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"The biggest problem is that it's got a very archaean and complex security environment that has to be very carefully set up and is easy to break."
"Google Compute Engine needs to have multi-region support. It would also be nice to have a tracking mechanism."
"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."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, Apache NiFi and AWS Batch, whereas Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, IBM Public Cloud, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
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