We performed a comparison between Google Compute Engine and Rackspace Cloud [EOL] 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)."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 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."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."
"Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."
"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"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."
"I would like to improve the solution’s UI while deploying a container. It is sometimes hard to figure out the container’s details and format that you want to deploy. The tool does not give you a guide to find out the error and why the container is not starting up which could be because you have configured it wrong. This is always a hit on the setup."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"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."
"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 nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."
"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."
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Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, IBM Public Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .
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