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 features of Amazon EC2 are content delivery and adaptability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ability to have standard operating systems along with the Windows, Linux operating systems, and their maintenance-free structure, which we prefer."
"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."
"The product is easy to set up."
"I like the AMI-related features. A very good feature of this solution is the customizable AMI. It is a very good feature provided by Amazon. The encryption technologies are also very good. We are using KMS, etc."
"Amazon EC2 is highly scalable."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"What we have found most valuable is that we have not lost stability in the program."
"It is simple to use. It is much simpler than AWS. It is also very powerful."
"Seurity features - unauthorized individuals are unable to access certain applications."
"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 product's setup and deployment phases are easy."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward, considering that there is good documentation explaining the implementation part of it."
"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 serverless, so we don't have to operate it."
"Administering App Engine is simple; it has intuitive UIs and a very scalable app engine."
"Current inability to change the resource service levels."
"We have had some downtime using the solution."
"One of the challenges is the AMI upgrades."
"Nothing is really missing in terms of features."
"Amazon EC2 could improve the stability."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"EC2 is a little expensive."
"The initial setup could be easier because many keys are required for access."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There needs to be more directions in terms of how to use the solution."
"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 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while Google App Engine is ranked 10th 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 and Apache NiFi, whereas Google App Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Heroku and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
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