We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and Google Cloud 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."In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"We can increase the storage as we need."
"The features I found most valuable are the cloud run and cloud function."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"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."
"There is no downtime. It is very reliable."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Simple to use on the web, and makes things easy for a software developer."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"Its integration with one of the third-party platforms could be better."
"If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes."
"Could provide more services."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."
"The security of the solution can always be improved."
"Current technologies keep on changing, so definitely those new changes need to be incorporated quickly. The competition is always out there to be one step ahead. How those open-source platforms can be easily integrated into the cloud, is going to be the key in the future."
"They could integrate artificial intelligence into the applications."
Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google App Engine, whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Linode, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. Google Cloud report.
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