We performed a comparison between Google Compute Engine and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 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."Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"It's the most engineer-friendly product compared to Amazon AWS or Azure."
"The solution helps to direct SSH into the machine at the click of a button. It also helps to deploy container images right from the UI. There is no need to manage the containers on the machine. I also like the tool’s Spot provision model."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."
"The product's configuration is simple."
"Apart from the licensing, there's support from Oracle Cloud Platform which improved our day to day operations. Time is reduced. Based on this service, we are able to scale up dependent applications as quickly as we can."
"I find the interface to be great."
"The solution is stable."
"We have not had any downtime using the solution."
"The scalability feature of the product is very impressive, especially considering the fact that the tool offers its users a pay-as-you-go model."
"This is a highly available and scalable solution that can host both modern and legacy on-premises applications."
"The solution offers many features and it is a complete replica of our data center."
"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."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"It has some limitations. For example, you don't get through layer two connectivity. So I've had some difficulty deploying custom VMs. For example, you can't deploy a KVM file to file directly on GCP."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"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."
"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."
"It isn't easy to get qualified people who know how to work on this tool. All my administrators are learning as they go. Since this is the only cloud solution provider in Saudi Arabia, and it has only been around for one year, I am sure that this will change with time."
"Oracle Cloud's support could be improved because its second-line support has weak engineers who handle stuff a little bit slowly."
"Pricing could be improved considering competition and market conditions."
"The deployment from on-premises to the cloud is a bit complicated."
"This service is very specific to Oracle and we cannot have other types of workloads on Oracle Cloud."
"They could add more features."
"The setup was not simple."
"Customer service could be improved."
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Google Compute Engine is ranked 10th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 91 reviews. Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift. See our Google Compute Engine vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) report.
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