We compared Amazon AWS and Google Firebase based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, extensive services, and excellent customer support, while users find Google Firebase appealing due to its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database functionality, scalability, ease of use, and diverse development tools. However, Amazon AWS users have concerns about the complex interface and pricing structure, while Google Firebase users seek better documentation, user interface customization, and error handling improvements.
Features: Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, diverse services, user-friendly interface, and exceptional customer support. In contrast, Google Firebase stands out for its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database capability, scalability, beginner-friendly usability, and wide range of development tools and APIs.
Pricing and ROI: According to user feedback, Amazon AWS has varying feedback regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, with valuable insights on overall cost, initial investment, and terms of usage. On the other hand, Google Firebase is praised for its reasonable pricing options, straightforward setup process, and flexible licensing agreements., Users have highly positive feedback on the ROI of both Amazon AWS and Google Firebase. AWS is praised for its cost-effectiveness and wide features, while Firebase is commended for its data management and app performance.
Room for Improvement: The Amazon AWS product could benefit from improvements in user interface intuitiveness, documentation clarity, pricing structure comprehension, customer support responsiveness, service availability, reliability, and stability. On the other hand, Google Firebase could enhance its documentation, tutorials, user interface customization options, data querying flexibility, error handling, and error messages to offer users a more efficient and user-friendly experience.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Amazon AWS and Google Firebase indicate that users have varying timeframes for deployment, setup, and implementation. Some users suggest that these should be considered separately, while others imply that they are referring to the same period., Amazon AWS's customer service and support have been praised for their promptness, efficiency, and knowledge in resolving issues. On the other hand, Google Firebase's customer service is commended for its prompt assistance, helpfulness, and friendliness. Both receive positive feedback overall.
The summary above is based on 46 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon AWS and Google Firebase users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
"With the pay-as-you-go model, we don't have to predict future IT needs. We can just scale up as we want. That helps with a lot of agility in deploying stuff in our IT infrastructure."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"A scalable and secure product"
"The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."
"The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"The most valuable feature of Google Firebase authentication and deployment."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase have been Analytics, Remote Config, and Crashlytics. Additionally, a lot of companies have used push notifications which is important. There is little maintenance required."
"The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't need to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure."
"If you are selling an app with extensive Firebase use, costs may go up."
"The scalability is good."
"There have been some issues in the past when it comes to file integrations in AWS's cloud products. However, there are now alternative solutions out there that are helping to integrate them all."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"The price could be better."
"The cold start-up of the cloud function needs to speed up. For me personally, I'm not experienced in anything there, however, I've just read online it's a problem."
"Firebase's real-time information isn't technically real-time. It takes a while to upload user activity into the app. It's not as fast as Datadog, the other solution we use."
"The solution's notification system could be much better."
"I would like to see faster data migration and some support for other languages in the next release."
"Google Cloud Functions (which is still a BETA version) needs to have more control over the uploaded functions. That is, it needs more options for controlling the functions itself."
"Integrations and extensions offered by the product are quite limited presently."
"I rate the support from Google Firebase a four out of five."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Dell ECS, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Linode. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Firebase report.
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