We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean 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."The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The solution is very stable."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"I have found almost everything valuable. Most cloud products are moving in this direction, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and security."
"For us, the solution is very easy to use. We have the right skillsets for it."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"The infrastructure is easy to manage."
"It is stable. It is easy to learn and very straightforward."
"You can just connect and start using it through a browser within a few minutes."
"Google Cloud has low downtime."
"The solution works well for BigQuery and big data analysis support such as column alerts and tabular databases."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code."
"Current technologies keep on changing, so definitely those new changes need to be incorporated quickly. The competition is always out there to be one step ahead. How those open-source platforms can be easily integrated into the cloud, is going to be the key in the future."
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"The storage available for this solution could be improved, especially compared to a solution like Microsoft which offers 1 TB of storage. Google cloud offers only 30 GB."
"Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services."
"I find it hard to download items, especially on their operating system."
"I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud."
"I would like to see some improvement in the accessibility features of this solution."
DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Linode, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Cloud report.
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