We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations."
"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."
"The solution offers good access policies."
"Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility."
"Its ease of use is valuable."
"The flexibility of the security features is what is interesting."
"We find it easy to scale."
"The product's setup and deployment phases are easy."
"Google App Engine's most valuable feature is self-management. You do not have to manage the infrastructure underneath where all the functions are happening, such as load balancing deployment and version management, they are managed by the system itself."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward, considering that there is good documentation explaining the implementation part of it."
"The solution is serverless, so we don't have to operate it."
"Its ability to integrate with most devices helps users who have different or old devices."
"I've found that all of the features are valuable, especially the shared drive and the ability for multiple people to use their documents at the same time."
"Seurity features - unauthorized individuals are unable to access certain applications."
"The initial setup is okay. It's not too complex. Deployment took about one day."
"Pricing-wise, it is a bit high."
"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."
"Amazon EC2 could improve the stability."
"It's not the best of the best because we still have issues with downtime. We still have issues with the cost of storage, with all these different instance styles, and how much it costs. They cost an arm and a leg the higher you go."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"In terms of improvement, they could build some client-side desktop tools that provide easier connectivity to Amazon."
"The price could be better, and it could be more affordable. Because I run my own servers, the prices are quite high."
"Lacks sufficient tools to help users minimize their costs."
"I would like a simpler deployment tool on laptops. It is a bit complicated at the moment. We know how to do it, but it could be easier to deploy it on laptops."
"I think there's still a lot that can be done with Google Meet and the video conferencing part of it. It could be more dynamic in terms of what can be done with it."
"Data consumption of the device could be improved."
"Difficult to assess how pricing is managed."
"There needs to be more directions in terms of how to use the solution."
"The only concern is that there is a number of the offerings which are built on their own proprietary technologies. With some of the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers."
"The support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe."
"The documentation and community are lacking for this product."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while Google App Engine is ranked 11th in PaaS Clouds with 23 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Google App Engine is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google App Engine writes "Simplifies app development process for businesses". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda and AWS Batch, whereas Google App Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Heroku and IBM Cloud Private.
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