We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and Google Compute Engine 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."The solution is pretty stable."
"Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use."
"Google Cloud is easy to use and accessible anywhere."
"Simple to use on the web, and makes things easy for a software developer."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"The solution scales well."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"The stability of Google Cloud is currently good."
"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"It's the most engineer-friendly product compared to Amazon AWS or Azure."
"The solution helps to direct SSH into the machine at the click of a button. It also helps to deploy container images right from the UI. There is no need to manage the containers on the machine. I also like the tool’s Spot provision model."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"I would like to see some improvement in the accessibility features of this solution."
"The management side for the database needs some work. Currently, you do everything from the APP. It would be nice to have an interface where you can go in and maintain data and deal with records and do something online."
"The solution could improve by being less expensive."
"The security of the solution can always be improved."
"The price can be lowered significantly."
"Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services."
"The price could improve. Every customer would agree, that they would like the price to be reduced."
"If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"Google Compute Engine needs to have multi-region support. It would also be nice to have a tracking mechanism."
"It has some limitations. For example, you don't get through layer two connectivity. So I've had some difficulty deploying custom VMs. For example, you can't deploy a KVM file to file directly on GCP."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"There have been instances when a customer has tried to deploy a certain number of VMs inside a project, and they come across quota issues."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"Google Compute Engine does not have many options at a lower tier level. If they had more options it will be better. For example, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, have more options and different types of instances, of VMs we can select."
"I would like to improve the solution’s UI while deploying a container. It is sometimes hard to figure out the container’s details and format that you want to deploy. The tool does not give you a guide to find out the error and why the container is not starting up which could be because you have configured it wrong. This is always a hit on the setup."
Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews while Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift, whereas Google Compute Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), IBM Public Cloud and Amazon AWS. See our Google Cloud vs. Google Compute Engine report.
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