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 most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"Technical support has been good."
"There is no downtime. It is very reliable."
"This platform is popular with technical users because of the abilities for customization and fine-tuning performance."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"You can just connect and start using it through a browser within a few minutes."
"The features I found most valuable are the cloud run and cloud function."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"I have found this solution to be a quick and advanced way to run my models through."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"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."
"The Notes application could be better."
"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."
"It is complex to set up."
"I would like for this solution to improve its user interface and documentation."
"The product should be more cost-effective."
"I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code."
"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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