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.
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
"The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"I like AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure."
"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."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast."
"If you are selling an app with extensive Firebase use, costs may go up."
"This solution supports our real time database. We also use it for AB testing and for its Google Cloud functions. We make use of Crashlytics and reporting on details."
"The solution is useful for managing users and user authentication."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't need to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"Amazon AWS could improve on security."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"The price could be better."
"The customization could be improved."
"It's sometimes a challenge to manage billing on this platform. It takes a lot of labor to generate billing for our customers from the service on the cloud."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"One area that could be improved is in data management. They could improve on the data side. For example, I see others with better cloud services and larger data computing capabilities."
"I rate the support from Google Firebase a four out of five."
"Google Cloud Functions (which is still a BETA version) needs to have more control over the uploaded functions. That is, it needs more options for controlling the functions itself."
"Google Firebase should add extra functionality to do global delete and updates across your database."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The cold start-up of the cloud function needs to speed up. For me personally, I'm not experienced in anything there, however, I've just read online it's a problem."
"The UI for the realtime database could be simplified."
"The solution needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"In Google Firebase, reporting is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required to be made in the future."
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, 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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