We compared Amazon AWS and Google Firebase based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, extensive services, and excellent customer support, while users find Google Firebase appealing due to its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database functionality, scalability, ease of use, and diverse development tools. However, Amazon AWS users have concerns about the complex interface and pricing structure, while Google Firebase users seek better documentation, user interface customization, and error handling improvements.
Features: Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, diverse services, user-friendly interface, and exceptional customer support. In contrast, Google Firebase stands out for its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database capability, scalability, beginner-friendly usability, and wide range of development tools and APIs.
Pricing and ROI: According to user feedback, Amazon AWS has varying feedback regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, with valuable insights on overall cost, initial investment, and terms of usage. On the other hand, Google Firebase is praised for its reasonable pricing options, straightforward setup process, and flexible licensing agreements., Users have highly positive feedback on the ROI of both Amazon AWS and Google Firebase. AWS is praised for its cost-effectiveness and wide features, while Firebase is commended for its data management and app performance.
Room for Improvement: The Amazon AWS product could benefit from improvements in user interface intuitiveness, documentation clarity, pricing structure comprehension, customer support responsiveness, service availability, reliability, and stability. On the other hand, Google Firebase could enhance its documentation, tutorials, user interface customization options, data querying flexibility, error handling, and error messages to offer users a more efficient and user-friendly experience.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Amazon AWS and Google Firebase indicate that users have varying timeframes for deployment, setup, and implementation. Some users suggest that these should be considered separately, while others imply that they are referring to the same period., Amazon AWS's customer service and support have been praised for their promptness, efficiency, and knowledge in resolving issues. On the other hand, Google Firebase's customer service is commended for its prompt assistance, helpfulness, and friendliness. Both receive positive feedback overall.
The summary above is based on 46 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon AWS and Google Firebase users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"They provide cutting-edge features compared to other cloud vendors."
"It's very user-friendly."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"The documentation is very good."
"Google Firebase is one I like a lot because it gives us a little bit more power and accessibility when it comes to publishing apps a lot quicker and for the needs that we have."
"The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't need to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure."
"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"It has security rules to control database read/write operations in real-time."
"We're able to use the solution in several processes."
"Firebase offers encryption out of the box."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
"In Google Firebase, reporting is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required to be made in the future."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
"The notifications must be made a little bit better."
"There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price."
"One of the challenges I was facing when I was using it was the library called Google Dialogflow which allows you to connect your chatbot with an intent. So there is so much adding when you are trying to connect it with your service because you have to do a lot of repetition writing a new intent, putting it step by set so it is good to escape. I believe it should be flexible and dedicate the intents based on the relating and to write a lesser code when doing that."
"Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Dell ECS, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Linode. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Firebase report.
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