We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is its ability to spin a new virtual machine in a few seconds."
"The most valuable features are the scalability options, low maintenance, and options to upgrade. AWS support is also pretty good. The generation upgrade is pretty simple and standardized."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."
"The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."
"Its ease of use is valuable."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations."
"Google App Engine's most valuable feature is self-management. You do not have to manage the infrastructure underneath where all the functions are happening, such as load balancing deployment and version management, they are managed by the system itself."
"The solution is serverless, so we don't have to operate it."
"It is simple to use. It is much simpler than AWS. It is also very powerful."
"The WhatApp feature is the most valuable."
"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."
"Seurity features - unauthorized individuals are unable to access certain applications."
"Administering App Engine is simple; it has intuitive UIs and a very scalable app engine."
"Its ability to integrate with most devices helps users who have different or old devices."
"The solution’s pricing and downtimes could be improved."
"The tool’s stability could be better."
"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"The only issue with EC2 is that it makes it difficult to install an LLS certificate on your WordPress website that you have deployed inside that virtual machine. That becomes complicated."
"Support doesn't share or give insights on OS-based issues. That needs to improve because if someone is buying an EC2 instance with the Windows server and SQL license, the client expects that there will be a minimum level of support."
"In terms of improvement, they could build some client-side desktop tools that provide easier connectivity to Amazon."
"Nothing is really missing in terms of features."
"Data consumption of the device could be improved."
"Difficult to assess how pricing is managed."
"The support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe."
"There needs to be more directions in terms of how to use the solution."
"Some features of runtime don't work well in App Engine."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The documentation and community are lacking for this product."
"The only concern is that there is a number of the offerings which are built on their own proprietary technologies. With some of the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while Google App Engine is ranked 12th in PaaS Clouds with 23 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Google App Engine is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google App Engine writes "Simplifies app development process for businesses". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch and Apache NiFi, whereas Google App Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Heroku, IBM Cloud Private and Amazon Lightsail.
We monitor all Compute Service reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.