We compared Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud both offer excellent scalability, security measures, customer support, and competitive pricing. However, Alibaba Cloud users appreciate its extensive resources and efficient data management, while Google Cloud users value its seamless integration with other Google services and fast performance. Outstanding features of Alibaba Cloud include robust security measures, extensive resource options, and efficient data management, while Google Cloud is praised for its seamless integration with other Google services and excellent performance. Some areas of improvement for Alibaba Cloud include a more intuitive interface and better customer support, while Google Cloud users are calling for improvements in terms of speed, reliability, pricing transparency, and customer support.
Features: Alibaba Cloud is praised for its excellent scalability and robust security measures, while Google Cloud stands out with its seamless integration with Google services and fast and reliable operations. Alibaba Cloud offers extensive resource options, while Google Cloud offers extensive security measures. Both platforms have reliable customer support.
Pricing and ROI: Alibaba Cloud offers reasonable and manageable setup cost, with a smooth and straightforward licensing process. On the other hand, Google Cloud also provides a competitive setup cost and flexible licensing options, giving good value for money according to user feedback., Alibaba Cloud users have reported highly positive returns on investment, emphasizing cost-effectiveness, efficiency, scalability, reliability, and extensive features. Google Cloud users experienced positive returns with demonstrated value.
Room for Improvement: Alibaba Cloud could benefit from enhancements in the interface, stability, reliability, customer support, and response times. Google Cloud needs improvements in speed, reliability, ease of use, pricing transparency, and customer support.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, the duration required to establish a new tech solution on Alibaba Cloud can vary greatly, ranging from three months to just one week for deployment and setup. On the other hand, for Google Cloud, the duration also varies significantly, with some users reporting several months for deployment alone., Alibaba Cloud's customer service is praised for its attentiveness, extensive documentation, and helpful support team. However, some users have expressed dissatisfaction with the response time and perceived lack of expertise. In comparison, Google Cloud is praised for its excellent assistance, promptness, and reliable customer service in addressing queries and concerns.
The summary above is based on 55 interviews we conducted recently with Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."
"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"The installation is easy."
"I have found almost everything valuable. Most cloud products are moving in this direction, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and security."
"This platform is popular with technical users because of the abilities for customization and fine-tuning performance."
"Google Cloud is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud."
"It's easy to work with."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"Google Meet is simple to use regarding configuration and recording sessions."
"This is a solution that's so easy to expand when you need it to. It's the best I've ever seen. It's much better than Azure."
"Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."
"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."
"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."
"The solution should have more integration."
"The support offered by the tool is ridiculous."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."
"Integration is always something that can be improved."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"I would like to see some improvement in the accessibility features of this solution."
"Monitoring and usage reporting could be improved."
"The price could improve. Every customer would agree, that they would like the price to be reduced."
"The product should be more cost-effective."
"Uploading documents could be simplified."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 8th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 17 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase and DigitalOcean, whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Red Hat OpenShift and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Alibaba Cloud vs. Google Cloud report.
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