We performed a comparison between Google Compute Engine and Knack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."
"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 initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different 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."
"Google Compute Engine does not have many options at a lower tier level. If they had more options it will be better. For example, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, have more options and different types of instances, of VMs we can select."
"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 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."
"Google Compute Engine needs to have multi-region support. It would also be nice to have a tracking mechanism."
"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 licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
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Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews while Knack is ranked 30th in Rapid Application Development Software. Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8, while Knack is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Knack writes "Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective". Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, IBM Public Cloud, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Knack is most compared with Caspio, Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Amazon AWS and AppSheet.
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