We compared Amazon AWS and Google Firebase based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, extensive services, and excellent customer support, while users find Google Firebase appealing due to its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database functionality, scalability, ease of use, and diverse development tools. However, Amazon AWS users have concerns about the complex interface and pricing structure, while Google Firebase users seek better documentation, user interface customization, and error handling improvements.
Features: Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, diverse services, user-friendly interface, and exceptional customer support. In contrast, Google Firebase stands out for its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database capability, scalability, beginner-friendly usability, and wide range of development tools and APIs.
Pricing and ROI: According to user feedback, Amazon AWS has varying feedback regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, with valuable insights on overall cost, initial investment, and terms of usage. On the other hand, Google Firebase is praised for its reasonable pricing options, straightforward setup process, and flexible licensing agreements., Users have highly positive feedback on the ROI of both Amazon AWS and Google Firebase. AWS is praised for its cost-effectiveness and wide features, while Firebase is commended for its data management and app performance.
Room for Improvement: The Amazon AWS product could benefit from improvements in user interface intuitiveness, documentation clarity, pricing structure comprehension, customer support responsiveness, service availability, reliability, and stability. On the other hand, Google Firebase could enhance its documentation, tutorials, user interface customization options, data querying flexibility, error handling, and error messages to offer users a more efficient and user-friendly experience.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Amazon AWS and Google Firebase indicate that users have varying timeframes for deployment, setup, and implementation. Some users suggest that these should be considered separately, while others imply that they are referring to the same period., Amazon AWS's customer service and support have been praised for their promptness, efficiency, and knowledge in resolving issues. On the other hand, Google Firebase's customer service is commended for its prompt assistance, helpfulness, and friendliness. Both receive positive feedback overall.
The summary above is based on 46 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon AWS and Google Firebase users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We're able to use the solution in several processes."
"The scalability is good."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"The user interface is very good and easy to navigate."
"The product is easy to use."
"The initial setup of Google Firebase is pretty straightforward."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"An integrated platform would make it easier for administrators to monitor and manage."
"I'd like the solution to be more plug-and-play."
"The pricing is expensive"
"AWS support could be better."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"This solution could offer more security."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
"Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database."
"I would like to see faster data migration and some support for other languages in the next release."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
"I rate the support from Google Firebase a four out of five."
"Integrations and extensions offered by the product are quite limited presently."
"The solution's notification system could be much better."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Red Hat OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Dell ECS, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Linode. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Firebase report.
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