We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS 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."The best features are flexibility and cost."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"They provide cutting-edge features compared to other cloud vendors."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
"What I like most about Google Cloud is its stability. I also like that its GUI works fine for my company."
"It is very easy to share documents."
"Google Cloud's most valuable attribute is its capability for on-demand auto-scaling, and it also simplifies numerous intricate tasks for its users."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"Google Cloud is a good alternative solution. I think it's a better fit for Mac operating systems than Windows. If you're utilizing Google Cloud for something like big data, then their big query is decent."
"The solution works well for BigQuery and big data analysis support such as column alerts and tabular databases."
"It's available any time you need it."
"Google Meet is simple to use regarding configuration and recording sessions."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"The interface could be improved."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"We have a very good approach internally with what we have developed. It involved overcoming some hurdles regarding the single point of truth or single point of configuration, which is sometimes not that easy for AWS. There are dashboards and you have your web service, but bringing all these together and orchestrating is sometimes quite difficult."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."
"Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services."
"Lower pricing would make Google Cloud better."
"Google is slower to support .NET."
"I would like for this solution to improve its user interface and documentation."
"The Notes application could be better."
"The price of the solution could be more transparent."
"I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. 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 Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Cloud report.
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I have worked with AWS for 4 years now and I agree with the recommendation.
If you make some research AWS will be shown as the top solution in many white papers. We made an evaluation to compare it with Google and Azure. In our case, AWS is the most cost-effective.
Depending on the solution you are running you need to check the license cost for your servers. If you have a lot of Windows solutions Azure may be a better fit.
Regarding performance, we did have an incident where the complete region was unreachable. So, make sure to consider recovery sites.
I would like to recommend MS Azure to start with.
The reasons are:
1. I bet you're using many Microsoft tools, like Office 365, Team, etc. so you're pretty familiar with the MS UX which is excellent.
2. It's easy to start/learn Azure and configurations, they have very detailed documentation online.
3. It's relatively cheaper with Azure IaaS with good starting numbers of notes/services.