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."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 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."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The solution is very stable."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"Google Cloud is 100 percent stable."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"The infrastructure is easy to manage."
"We can increase the storage as we need."
"I like that it is free. It's easy to use, and it's reliable."
"Google Cloud is easy to use and accessible anywhere."
"It eliminates capital expenditures and subsequent MNO that we would use to spend on on-prem architectures. That money is funneled towards security and connectivity provisioning."
"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"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"
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"Integration is always something that can be improved."
"The UI is beautiful but not easy to use, and also a little slow. Anything that you click is slow to load. It is also not easy to find something. I do not find the left-hand side menu good. We have a lot of options mixed there and we need the best way to deploy cloud resources. I prefer Azure ARM templates since their JSON files are easy to manipulate and integrate with other tools."
"The price can be lowered significantly."
"My only concern is that a number of the offerings are built on their own proprietary technologies which means means that, with respect to the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers."
"I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud."
"Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution."
"The product should be more cost-effective."
"The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available."
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, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Cloud report.
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