Google Cloud Room for Improvement
The solution should be more configurable for high-volume databases. The managed service does not allow flexible database configurations that are needed for better filter performance. We have a TPS first-grade, high-volume database using an ERC system. We are moving to Clarity for managed services and need more configurations to support it.
The solution could improve its management services for MongoDB.
The website's memory only allows one TB.
View full review »Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution. We are always looking for ways to make our business easier or more efficient. We need more guidance on where to obtain knowledge.
View full review »The price of the solution could be more transparent.
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Google Cloud
March 2024
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The UI is beautiful but not easy to use, and also a little slow. Anything that you click is slow to load. It is also not easy to find something. I do not find the left-hand side menu good. We have a lot of options mixed there and we need the best way to deploy cloud resources. I prefer Azure ARM templates since their JSON files are easy to manipulate and integrate with other tools.
View full review »The security features must be improved. My organization has imposed high levels of security. We take quite a long time to get the required access. I am unsure if it's because of the policies we set or the delay from the product.
View full review »The product must provide support for .NET. Microsoft has support for .NET because .NET is a Microsoft product. We ran into an issue when we were waiting for Google to support .NET 6. Google is slower to support .NET. It must cater more to .NET developers.
View full review »The cost could be lowered.
The analytics could be improved. The analytics that they have are very focused. It serves Google and not really the client. There needs to be some kind of ratio between the purpose of the service, how much of this service is for the client and how much is for the provider. Google is getting more value from the analytics services than the client.
View full review »The subscription is expensive, and the data on offer can be too small. If you don't have the right size, it will delete what is over the allowed amount. If you go over your allotment, they want you to extend it, and you need to keep paying extra. Otherwise, you lose access to stuff that is over the storage limit.
It is complex to set up.
We'd like Google to add more storage to the license the longer you use it.
View full review »I cannot recall coming across any missing features.
View full review »For Google Cloud, the availability could be improved. I'm from China, and Google Cloud is not so popular there. Other than that, I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud. For example, I use Baidu Cloud. Their cloud storage reaches the limit. In China, the biggest problem with Google Cloud is price.
The product is very good. I don't have any notes on areas for improvement.
Integration is always something that can be improved.
View full review »I don't have any notes for improvements. I don't use it too often.
They could always offer even more storage at the base level.
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reviewer1940070
Chief Information Security Officer at a government with 10,001+ employees
An area of improvement would be in the of managing accounts in terms of what we are using for memory, availability, and monitoring. We want to monitor our SaaS deployment within Google to give our SOC a good idea of what's going on.
The product should be more cost-effective.
View full review »When the companies grow at a larger scale, I often see them shifting to a different cloud services provider, like Oracle or AWS, because they may have critical features or preferences over Google Cloud. While Google Cloud is expanding, there is still room for improvement in flexibility.
View full review »The security of the solution can always be improved.
View full review »The price of the license could be cheaper.
View full review »Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities.
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reviewer1285269
Executive Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
As far as internal communications, Microsoft is much better because of the way it is structured. I feel more comfortable with Microsoft.
I feel that the Google product is incomplete with regard to internal communications. It is an area that needs some improvement.
The user experience could be better. Microsoft user experience is better.
The compatibility of different devices could be better because it looks different on different devices, It's not the same.
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reviewer2104236
Owner at a insurance company with 11-50 employees
I'm still confused by the usefulness of the cloud and I'm not sure why everyone is moving there. I don't trust the act of sending my company's information to whoever knows where instead of having it safe on my own servers.
I find it hard to download items, especially on their operating system.
The Google operating system leaves a lot to be desired.
It does not seem to provide any virtualization whatsoever.
View full review »We'd like to maybe see more integrations in the future.
It would be nice if they could offer more free storage.
The solution could always improve security.
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Ruven Naidoo
Senior Software Developer Team Lead at Dilowa
There is only one issue that I have and it is when you create an account, they limit the number of accounts you can create.
The documentation could be better.
The backup needs improvement. I would prefer to do a one-piece backup solution where I can schedule backups.
It's just too complicated to migrate from one Firebase database to another. It should have been easy.
I'd like to see something like an exchange server, a managed email server, where I can handle other clients. I'd like something similar to Microsoft Exchange yet something that is like a fully managed email service.
BS
Biswjait Swain
Sr SAP PP Consultant at HCL Technologies
Current technologies keep on changing, so definitely those new changes need to be incorporated quickly. The competition is always out there to be one step ahead. How those open-source platforms can be easily integrated into the cloud, is going to be the key in the future.
The storage available for this solution could be improved, especially compared to a solution like Microsoft which offers 1 TB of storage. Google cloud offers only 30 GB.
NM
reviewer1378032
Database Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Google Cloud lacks some tools for database migration. I've only used MySQL and AWS in my career, so those are the only ones I can compare. AWS has a database migration tool that you can integrate with a cloud backup, so can take that backup and restore it in the AWS public cloud, but it's not the same with Google Cloud. We have to use a utility called mysqldump, which takes a long time to restore. That's a big shortcoming of Google Cloud. I don't know why they haven't thought of it.
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Claudiu Cretu
Head of .NET Department at Evozon
The price can be lowered significantly.
View full review »I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code.
View full review »I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price.
View full review »The price could improve. Every customer would agree, that they would like the price to be reduced.
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Mark Munn
retired
The Notes application could be better. Some of the email portal features can be tricky, but my mom uses it just fine, so it's probably intuitive enough.
And some of the email portal features. My mom sometimes has trouble with them, but she's not very tech-savvy, so that's understandable. The fact that she can use it at all shows that it's pretty user-friendly.
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reviewer1053957
Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution's integration with Oracle could be better. We encounter issues while migrating the database from Oracle to another SQL server.
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Swapnil Dhatrak
Application Development Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English.
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Abdulla Pathan
Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate
They need to improve the costing for predictive analytics, which is mainly related to the tools that come with AI. They also need to improve the BigQuery cost optimization and the visualization.
Their support could be faster.
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Kumara Subramanian
Director Web Technologies at Thapovan Info Systems Inc.
Overall, I'm happy with it. It's not missing any features.
We'd like the storage to be increased.
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reviewer1395333
Senior Solutions Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Every once in a while I have trouble accessing it, but I don't know if that's a function of the Cloud, the way the Cloud is set up, or it's just something on my browser.
Stability could be improved in terms of the Cloud in general administration. It's frustrating when companies have to deal with Cloud Administration.
Change configuration management is an issue. I can envision customer companies that are Cloud-enabled where their biggest problem is having to keep up with the changes and managing it.
The API is constantly evolving. IP addresses are constantly changing and it's hard to keep up with all of those changes.
Typically it is being administered through IT organizations, although they have no visibility.
If you engage in a security solution through a cloud provider, you have no view, it's all faith, trust, and hope.
How do you reconcile the two, to provide the visibility, do it seamlessly, and make it easy to use?
If they could include a popup section where all of the new updates are. That would be helpful. I don't have the experience or intelligence to know what it is that they are showing, or where I can get that I might need, which would make a feature like this important.
It would like it if upon starting the browser, it tells you that it is out of date and asks if you would like to update. That would lead customers to take the optimal path as opposed to having to figure it out themselves.
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reviewer1179453
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
DevOps must be improved. DevOps in AWS is quite easy to establish and can be easily used by startups and big companies. It is not so with Google Cloud. The product must provide AI features.
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GovindSharma
HR at MRC Logistics India Pvt
They could integrate artificial intelligence into the applications.
View full review »Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services.
Our objective was to attain a convenient and straightforward configuration process not only in Google Cloud but in other widely utilized cloud services. Regardless of the cloud service you are currently utilizing or intend to connect to, we desire for the process to be seamless and effortlessly attainable with only quick action. It is our hope that all cloud services possess this level of interoperability with one another.
View full review »Lower pricing would make Google Cloud better.
View full review »The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available.
View full review »From my point of view, the security features could be improved.
View full review »Cloud vendors can't afford to have data centers all across the world because of the economics of scale and the size of markets. That is one reason that some customers don't get onto the cloud.
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.
View full review »Google Cloud could improve the integration with other solutions.
View full review »The Spanish version is in beta. It needs to be farther along.
We'd like the solution to be smaller and lighter. It could be simpler.
We'd like for some better integration from TerraForm.
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Ruven Naidoo
Senior Software Developer Team Lead at Dilowa
The analytics could be improved. I need to be able to give them to the client. It is there, but you have to go to Google Cloud to see it. I want it added as a service so I can add it to the client-side and make it easily sharable with my clients.
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. Also the ability to migrate the database should be a bit easier. You can't just copy a database and make another duplicate. You have to do all that bit manually.
View full review »I can't think of any improvements off the top of my head.
The solution could be a bit cheaper.
View full review »Google Cloud could improve by having better integration with other platforms.
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reviewer1600098
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
The solution could be cheaper.
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Iris Boers
Business owner at Boers PR + Marketing
There are occasionally things which are inconvenient. For example, uploading pictures or files then requires you to transfer to a different folder. Maybe there's a way to choose where a document is uploaded to and that can be done directly.
JK
reviewer1973826
Senior Principal Architect at a real estate/law firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Technical support needs help.
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reviewer1438053
CTO at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
Monitoring and usage reporting could be improved. For example, they don't provide the CPU primary memory usage report. They do provide a CPU usage report, but not the memory. This is something that is critical for people interested in monitoring because if you are burdening the machine then you want the option of providing more RAM.
There is no graph or monitoring in the console; if it is there then I haven't found it, so it is something that takes extra time to figure out.
Google does not provide free support and at the least, email support should be available. I am not asking for free chat or telephone support, but given that we are paying to use the machine, email support should be included.
The alerts are somewhat cryptic and do not say much about what is going on.
View full review »It is difficult to say what should be improved because, obviously, they have made some major improvements in the organization of how you do things — such as the way you set up a server. Google has made a lot of effort to try and catch up to the competition in the area of ease-of-use because that would have been my one complaint: that you have got to be quite technical to understand some of the ways that things are done. Azure and Heroku are number one in ease-of-use and they make it very easy. Google has done a lot of work to alleviate that objection and to catch up with Heroku and Azure. But the people that have the most to say about the ease-of-use would be the guys using it. For the developers we have, they like the power and the control that Google gives them.
So I can not actually answer what exactly has to improve for developers to be more satisfied at this point because they seem quite satisfied with it already. I do not get any complaints from the guys. They are the ones using it every day and I do not use it on a daily basis so I really can not comment in that sense.
I could say that it can be easier to use for people that do not have the same level of technical skills, but even that has improved a lot with their upgrade to the user documentation.
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Iryna Ivashenko
CMO at ESCC
The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure.
View full review »The cost of the solution has room for improvement.
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reviewer1520679
IT Solutions Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution has been good overall. I can't recall having any features missing.
The solution could be less expensive.
It may be helpful to go through some training in order to get comfortable with the product.
The user interface could be a bit better. I've done a few deployments following the tutorial, and afterward, I'm not quite sure what exactly I've done. I just follow the instructions and just finish the command prompt and then it looks like it's working - but why, and how? I'm not quite sure. I want to understand fundamentally what I've done. If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes.
View full review »I would like for this solution to improve its user interface and documentation.
In the next release, I'd like to see information that's easier to use.
JL
Jim Lin
Technical Consultant at Athemaster co.,ltd.
The solution could improve by being less expensive.
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reviewer2084685
Developer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see some improvement in the accessibility features of this solution.
AW
reviewer1798149
Legal Associate at a legal firm with 11-50 employees
I don't have any problems using the solution. It's been problem-free for the most part.
The product could always be a little bit less expensive.
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reviewer1614513
Big Data Architect at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Workload management could be better. Their pricing could also be more flexible.
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MinSung Kyung
Director at In-Soft
I think Google Cloud could provide more services.
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reviewer1517100
CEO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would improve the integration with other devices such as smartphones. It is integrated in our company, but I think it could be improved.
It would be good to have fewer notifications.
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reviewer1624092
DirectorManaging Partner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My only concern is that a number of the offerings are built on their own proprietary technologies. This means that, with respect to the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers.
OB
reviewer1606152
SAP Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It could have a reporting tool included.
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Google Cloud
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Google Cloud. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.