We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean and Google Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"Google Cloud's most valuable attribute is its capability for on-demand auto-scaling, and it also simplifies numerous intricate tasks for its users."
"It is easy to use and has a very familiar interface."
"The availability has been increased."
"I like it because it's convenient. Google Cloud is also stable and scalable. The technical support is good as well."
"It is very easy to share documents."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to spin."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Sometimes the Google documents are difficult to learn from. Amazon has better support material."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud."
"The price of the solution could be more transparent."
"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."
"They could integrate artificial intelligence into the applications."
"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."
DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Cloud report.
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