We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure Object Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Google Cloud Storage is easy to use, and it's free. I also enjoy the speed I am able to share with family across the globe. The storage is synced."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is its ease of use. It fits well with our business use."
"The most valuable feature is the cryptographic technology."
"You do not need to install anything."
"It's very practical and reliable."
"I could store any type of file using the solution."
"The solution is stable and has good performance."
"It is flexible and simple to use."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage offers hassle-free usage. It is easy to configure."
"The solution is stable. It works fine for us."
"The most important thing for me is reliability."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Object Storage for us is its simplicity and reliability as a storage solution."
"Technical support has been excellent."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"The index search and block storage are valuable features."
"It would be helpful to offer more packages to increase the storage."
"The user interface could be more intuitive."
"I would like the storage to be less expensive."
"The solution is good, however, it would benefit from increased storage without the additional cost."
"The solution only allows so much space for free."
"The licensing fees could be reduced."
"It is hard to migrate to another product if we want to."
"Google Cloud Storage could improve the integrations in a way Microsoft Azure is going about it. For Data Lake integrations, Microsoft Azure has a bunch of native pipelines available. All Google needs to do is add the same set or maybe even improve on the sets that they have. All the analytics, including the Data Lake, would then be able to sit in Google Cloud Storage."
"If we look at the different versions of that ADLS, it really does not have a hierarchical storage mechanism."
"One of the things that are currently important is consistency. To achieve this, another database called Cosmos DB is available. We want to have a similar consistency to the one in Cosmos DB but at a cheaper price."
"We have experienced a data copy bottleneck with the AZ copy using Microsoft Azure Object Storage, this should improve. It has high CPU consumption. There are a couple of ways to copy files fast, we have tried a few ways. Other than AZ copy, we can use Azure Fluent Storage, which also takes a lot of time to copy files. The AZ copy is faster but it takes a lot of time and CPU operations."
"Its user interface could be better."
"We're still testing the solution. It's too early to make any suggestions as to what may be missing."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage is a pretty expensive solution."
"The stability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The product is expensive."
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Google Cloud Storage is ranked 4th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 66 reviews while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is ranked 10th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 44 reviews. Google Cloud Storage is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage writes "Flexible, reliable, and beneficial for small sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Object Storage writes "Easy to query, offers great security, and integrates well with other Microsoft applications". Google Cloud Storage is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, AT&T Cloud Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Workspace and Microsoft Azure File Storage, whereas Microsoft Azure Object Storage is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Wasabi, Amazon S3 and Nutanix Unified Storage. See our Google Cloud Storage vs. Microsoft Azure Object Storage report.
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