We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Google App 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."The most valuable feature is EC2 is scalable, so when you want to move to market, you don't need to wait until your provision is fast, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application."
"All of my lower maintenance overheads are taken care of. I don't have to worry about it."
"The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it."
"Amazon EC2 is highly scalable."
"EC2 is secure and stable, and we have no complaints about it on AWS."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward, considering that there is good documentation explaining the implementation part of it."
"I've found that all of the features are valuable, especially the shared drive and the ability for multiple people to use their documents at the same time."
"Administering App Engine is simple; it has intuitive UIs and a very scalable app engine."
"The initial setup is okay. It's not too complex. Deployment took about one day."
"Seurity features - unauthorized individuals are unable to access certain applications."
"Google App Engine's most valuable feature is self-management. You do not have to manage the infrastructure underneath where all the functions are happening, such as load balancing deployment and version management, they are managed by the system itself."
"It is simple to use. It is much simpler than AWS. It is also very powerful."
"The WhatApp feature is the most valuable."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."
"It is a little too expensive."
"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."
"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."
"One of the challenges is the AMI upgrades."
"I would like to see as much automation for data validation as possible in the future."
"This solution could be improved with better pricing. If you continue using this solution over a long period of time, your costs may accumulate."
"I would like to see more variety in the operating system images used to create test environments in EC2. There should be more versions and releases. Sometimes, you want to test an update from an old release to a higher version, but you can’t do that with the new images available. You have to use your own."
"The support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe."
"I think there's still a lot that can be done with Google Meet and the video conferencing part of it. It could be more dynamic in terms of what can be done with it."
"I would like a simpler deployment tool on laptops. It is a bit complicated at the moment. We know how to do it, but it could be easier to deploy it on laptops."
"I am limited to sending a photo to five people. I want to be able to send a photo to many people, not just five."
"The only concern is that there is a number of the offerings which are built on their own proprietary technologies. With some of the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers."
"The documentation and community are lacking for this product."
"Data consumption of the device could be improved."
"Some features of runtime don't work well in App Engine."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while Google App Engine is ranked 11th in PaaS Clouds with 23 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Google App Engine is rated 8.2. 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 App Engine writes "Simplifies app development process for businesses". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda and AWS Batch, whereas Google App Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Heroku and IBM Cloud Private.
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