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."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"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."
"The solution is fairly easy to deploy."
"You can just connect and start using it through a browser within a few minutes."
"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 works well for BigQuery and big data analysis support such as column alerts and tabular databases."
"It's a perfect tool for startups."
"The infrastructure is easy to manage."
"It's easy to deploy next-generation applications on Google Cloud. Customers can also use various cloud tools to optimize their operations and generate more insights to do business much smarter."
"Google Cloud is 100 percent stable."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"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."
"I feel that the Google product is incomplete with regard to internal communications. It is an area that needs some improvement."
"I would like to see some improvement in the accessibility features of this solution."
"Another issue is the applicability of local language data capturing mechanisms, which are more advanced on cloud service providers, but still there is room to grow. Also, their hybrid version isn't available in all markets worldwide, so I'm hoping that it will be released globally soon"
"It is complex to set up."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"Security features could be improved."
"Lower pricing would make Google Cloud better."
"The management side for the database needs some work. Currently, you do everything from the APP. It would be nice to have an interface where you can go in and maintain data and deal with records and do something online."
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 Amazon AWS, whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Linode, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and IBM Public Cloud. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. Google Cloud report.
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