We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, and Google Firebase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."We are mostly using EC2 compute and other resources. Most of our managed services are in AWS, which some of our clients prefer."
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"AWS has a lot of flexibility, which is great."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The best thing is scalability."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The solution is very stable."
"The product is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"The initial setup of Google Firebase is pretty straightforward."
"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"The product’s most valuable features are integration and hosting."
"The most beautiful feature of Google Firebase is that it gives you a lot of functionalities out of the box, without you having to develop or having to complete a solution. For example, identity management is integrated, and security is out of the box, particularly security for the user and the ability of each user to see his data. I also like that Google Firebase has a really good performance and is comparable to MongoDB. It's on the same level, and sometimes, it's on an even higher level than MongoDB. Other functions that Google Firebase has that I find valuable include information dissemination, mail automation, and SMS, available out of the box. Another valuable feature of the solution is that it allows you to develop some functionalities on the server side, so you can write JavaScript functions on the server side and use those functions quite easily. Google Firebase gives you almost a full backend environment out of the box without you having to do any deployments or a lot of administration because all administration is given out of the box."
"Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"The customization could be improved."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
"Firebase uses JSON, and the storage format is very different to that of SQL. This does not allow for easy migrations."
"The product is not that cheap."
"Google Cloud Functions (which is still a BETA version) needs to have more control over the uploaded functions. That is, it needs more options for controlling the functions itself."
"I rate the support from Google Firebase a four out of five."
"The solution needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"Google Firebase could improve the ability to create our own reports, other than what's available on the dashboard. For example, if we want to customize the report or export the data, this is a large task."
