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 scalability of the solution is fantastic. It's one of our favorite features."
"There's a lot of encryption across the setups to ensure that database credentials and everything related to security are well managed."
"I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it."
"The most valuable feature is EC2 is scalable, so when you want to move to market, you don't need to wait until your provision is fast, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application."
"Stable, scalable, and simple to implement."
"The tool's performance, reliability, security and flexibility are good. We can use it remotely. The autoscaling functionality of EC2 is quite good. I appreciate the DevOps suite for tracking development tasks. This functionality is important for pure software development."
"What we have found most valuable is that we have not lost stability in the program."
"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."
"Administering App Engine is simple; it has intuitive UIs and a very scalable app engine."
"The product's setup and deployment phases are easy."
"Seurity features - unauthorized individuals are unable to access certain applications."
"The solution is serverless, so we don't have to operate it."
"Its ability to integrate with most devices helps users who have different or old devices."
"It is simple to use. It is much simpler than AWS. It is also very powerful."
"The initial setup is okay. It's not too complex. Deployment took about one day."
"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."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"The product needs to improve its cost management."
"In terms of improvement, they could build some client-side desktop tools that provide easier connectivity to Amazon."
"The monitoring part could be improved. When we're building and configuring things or doing database replication, EC2's monitoring could provide more information. It's hard to find the information I need in the graphs they provide."
"Regional acceleration could improve. If I am hosting a website and I want the experience to be faster they should have this feature to allow for increased speeds."
"The initial deployment was complex."
"Built-in and/or integration with other services to proactively identify potential failures before they occur."
"The GUI used to deploy EC2 must be improved."
"Difficult to assess how pricing is managed."
"I would like a simpler deployment tool on laptops. It is a bit complicated at the moment. We know how to do it, but it could be easier to deploy it on laptops."
"I am limited to sending a photo to five people. I want to be able to send a photo to many people, not just five."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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 support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe."
"I think there's still a lot that can be done with Google Meet and the video conferencing part of it. It could be more dynamic in terms of what can be done with it."
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.
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