We performed a comparison between Google Compute Engine and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"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."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"The most valuable part of the Oracle Cloud Platform is the ability to develop applications that help us migrate information from on-prem to the cloud."
"It has improved my company by cutting my time to market."
"The product gives you independence from hardware onsite, the setup is easy, and there is no need for hardware maintenance."
"We use Oracle Cloud to host the OIC (Oracle Integration Cloud Service) and APEX."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Interface."
"I find the interface to be great."
"Our recommendations are good, and we also have a bidding platform that is helpful for managed service providers. This platform can save customers up to 2-3 weeks in billing time, from 25 days to 3-4 days. We have two products: a basic product and a cloud optimization product. Both products help customers improve the performance and cost-efficiency of their cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a cloud-based solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"Google Compute Engine needs to have multi-region support. It would also be nice to have a tracking mechanism."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"The tool should provide more options like other cloud services. Also, it should improve scalability with the free version."
"More technical papers could be published to help out professionals."
"The deployment from on-premises to the cloud is a bit complicated."
"The integration tools that they offer are quite complex to use."
"I would like more technical expertise."
"The packaging part of the software needs improvement. It lacks customization abilities for users. Giving them VMs for machine learning or running their own programs like Azure and Amazon, for example. Things like scalability based on the requirement of the tools. Oracle still lacks these kinds of things. For example, if you need a VM from Oracle, you need to pay for a monthly fee. They started developing containership but it's still at the initial stage and it's still lacking. They also need to develop integration between packages."
"Oracle support could be better; we had cases where certain regions experienced specific issues and received little help from Oracle."
"It isn't easy to get qualified people who know how to work on this tool. All my administrators are learning as they go. Since this is the only cloud solution provider in Saudi Arabia, and it has only been around for one year, I am sure that this will change with time."
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Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 91 reviews. Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, IBM Public Cloud, SAP Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud and OpenShift.
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