We performed a comparison between Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure 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."Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"It's the most engineer-friendly product compared to Amazon AWS or Azure."
"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."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"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."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, easy to use, and the documents are straightforward to understand."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"There are plenty of functions available that we have used extensively. It is a complete platform of services."
"User interface and portal are great."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"Azure is stable. I don't have any problems with it."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"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."
"Google Compute Engine needs to have multi-region support. It would also be nice to have a tracking mechanism."
"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 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."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"There have been instances when a customer has tried to deploy a certain number of VMs inside a project, and they come across quota issues."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"The subscriptions are complicated."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), IBM Public Cloud and Amazon AWS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Google Compute Engine vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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