We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and Google Cloud 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 initial setup is pretty easy."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"Technical support has been good."
"There is no downtime. It is very reliable."
"Simple to use on the web, and makes things easy for a software developer."
"What I like most about Google Cloud is its stability. I also like that its GUI works fine for my company."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"Google Cloud is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud."
"The solution scales well."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"I feel that the Google product is incomplete with regard to internal communications. It is an area that needs some improvement."
"I would improve the integration with other devices such as smartphones. It is integrated in our company, but I think it could be improved."
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"It would be nice if they could offer more free storage."
"Uploading documents could be simplified."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google App Engine and Pantheon, whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. Google Cloud report.
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