We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean and Google Cloud 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."It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"Google Cloud is 100 percent stable."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"The availability of content on the solution is very valuable."
"The customer service team for this solution is very knowledgeable."
"The availability has been increased."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"Technical support has been good."
"It is a stable solution."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Google Cloud could improve the integration with other solutions."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"The price of the license could be cheaper."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"When companies grow at a larger scale, they may shift to a different cloud services provider like AWS or Oracle."
"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."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"It is complex to set up."
DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Virtuozzo Application Platform, whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Cloud report.
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