We performed a comparison between Google App Engine and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is serverless, so we don't have to operate it."
"Seurity features - unauthorized individuals are unable to access certain applications."
"It is simple to use. It is much simpler than AWS. It is also very powerful."
"Its ability to integrate with most devices helps users who have different or old devices."
"The WhatApp feature is the most valuable."
"The initial setup is okay. It's not too complex. Deployment took about one day."
"Administering App Engine is simple; it has intuitive UIs and a very scalable app engine."
"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."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"Stability is not a concern with this product."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"The documentation and community are lacking for this product."
"The support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe."
"Difficult to assess how pricing is managed."
"Data consumption of the device could be improved."
"I am limited to sending a photo to five people. I want to be able to send a photo to many people, not just five."
"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."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There needs to be more directions in terms of how to use the solution."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
"It should offer more security features."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."
Google App Engine is ranked 11th in PaaS Clouds with 23 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Google App Engine is rated 8.2, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Google App Engine writes "Simplifies app development process for businesses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Google App Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Heroku, IBM Cloud Private and Salesforce Platform, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and Salesforce Platform. See our Google App Engine vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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