Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs Google Cloud comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Google Cloud and Azure Red Hat OpenShift are key competitors in the cloud solutions category. Google Cloud seems to have an advantage due to its broader service integration, while Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers enhanced enterprise-grade features.

Features: Google Cloud provides extensive AI and machine learning services, scalable data storage, and superior analytics capabilities. Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers powerful Kubernetes-based solutions, effective tools for containerized applications, and robust data management.

Room for Improvement: Google Cloud could improve its enterprise support and provide easier deployment customization. It may also benefit from enhancing built-in security features. Azure Red Hat OpenShift could work on reducing its initial costs and increasing the breadth of integrated services. It might also enhance its user interface for better ease of use.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides swift Kubernetes deployment, advantageous for complex enterprises. It excels in hybrid cloud support but involves higher initial setups. Google Cloud offers efficient deployment with great availability in customer service, though it requires customization to fully leverage its capabilities.

Pricing and ROI: Google Cloud features flexible pricing models with higher upfront investments on some services, offering optimized ROI as usage scales. Azure Red Hat OpenShift has higher initial costs but delivers value through enterprise-focused features, benefiting long-term business growth in large-scale deployments.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Cloud

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Azure Red Hat OpenShift is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud is 5.9%, up from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Google Cloud	5.9%
Azure Red Hat OpenShift	1.2%
Other	92.9%

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DeepakMishra

CEO, Head of Sales and Business Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Integrated cloud platform has streamlined app delivery and supported certified marketplace products

A potential area for improvement for Azure Red Hat OpenShift is to see managed identity support and ensure that some of the security features are not conflicting with Azure or Azure product features. I am sure in the future it will be more templatized so that we need not depend on Azure security features. Azure Red Hat OpenShift should be independent of Azure security features with respect to container scan and all that. Why would it use an Azure security feature? That is what I find. It is still yet to be GA and commonly available, but that is a strong reason for improvement.

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AnjaneyaVara Prasad

Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Cloud services have reduced on‑prem hardware costs and now support flexible microservices workloads

Regarding potential areas of improvement for Google Cloud, considering that they are providing 300 plus services, some services could be improved. For example, if I am facing some network troubleshooting issue in GKE in Google Cloud, I have to dig deeply and enable some special logs, such as flow logs. To enable that, it is chargeable. At least for basic services, they should give end-to-end support. In terms of end-to-end support, if I am purchasing one firewall from Google and using that firewall, all firewall-related services should be free. If I want to troubleshoot something deep and perform deep troubleshooting, you have to enable some additional logs. That is not that good. If I have to enable additional logs and want to store them into Google Cloud storage, which is similar to an S3 bucket, it is again chargeable. Those kinds of things should be given as part of the package. If you take firewall, all firewall-related logs, activities, and diagnostics everything should come as one package. If you want to do some deep analysis, you have to enable these logs, and for that you have to store them in the cloud storage, which is again chargeable. We should not have those kinds of things.Regarding additional costs, it can vary case by case. If I want to do deep analysis, I have to enable some logs, and for those logs, Google is charging. I am already paying for my virtual firewall from Google, and I am paying the cost for that. If I want to do some further troubleshooting and enable some low-level logs, they are charging for that. So these are the kinds of things I am talking about. To do very deep-level troubleshooting and enable additional logs, they will be charging. Not only Google, but all clouds are charging for this. Functionality-wise, Google Cloud is fine. In terms of virtual machine deployment or VM instance, the functionality is good.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The functions and features in Azure Red Hat OpenShift that I have found most valuable are that it is a platform that is baked into Azure, and since it is baked into Azure, it is managed operation by Azure, which takes out the complexity of the infrastructure management and day two operations when compared with on-premise OpenShift."

"In Kubernetes, when traffic goes out of a pod, it has to have its own IP address. Every service that's going out requires another IP. But with OpenShift, you don't have to deal with any of those IPs because they use NAT."

"The most valuable features of the solution are accessibility and scalability."

"It has a feature to automatically scale up or scale down. If my application is running in peak hours, it will automatically increase."

"Flexibility, a very well-developed interface, and ease of learning are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."

"The solution's support and its automation tool that ensures we are secure and appropriately configured are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."

"It supports AKS and other projects like Kubernetes or EKS."

"As a consulting company, we implement Azure Red Hat OpenShift for our clients, who appreciate its integration capabilities for enhancing cloud operations. While we handle implementation, build processes, and automation, the operational responsibility lies with the customer. The service provides basic processes and support from Red Hat and Microsoft, which benefits clients by allowing them to focus on their business rather than regular operations like cluster upgrades."

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"The best part of Google Cloud is that it is cheaper than the competitors, and it is easy to set up, monitor, and manage, as you can just connect and start using it through a browser within a few minutes."

"We use Google Cloud for storage, infrastructure, and services, providing file storage and infrastructure for deploying virtual machines, Kubernetes, or Dockers, as well as Google services that can be accessed by other software."

"Google Cloud Kubernetes support, especially GKE, is really reliable and good mainly from a microservices point of view for any product development."

"Cloud Run is pretty helpful."

"The stability is good with Google Cloud."

"The price of Google Cloud is affordable compared to others services."

"I haven't had any trouble setting up Google Cloud."

"The availability of content on the solution is very valuable."

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Cons

"One of the things to notice is that this product can be expensive."

"The product is expensive."

"I would rate the technical support from Microsoft as six."

"I would like Azure Red Hat OpenShift to be more open to new frameworks and languages. Currently, if I create a pod with Rust, it doesn't work in OpenShift, and I must create a layer of interpretation."

"They need to improve the core licensing model."

"Automation could be improved."

"Technically, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is fine. However, its marketing could be improved, especially when compared to the robust marketing efforts of Azure, HPE, and Nutanix."

"There is room for improvement in terms of orchestration. While Azure orchestration offers valuable features, it's worth noting that it may not match the level of orchestration provided by Kubernetes itself."

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"There are occasionally things which are inconvenient. For example, uploading pictures or files then requires you to transfer to a different folder."

"Currently, in my region, they don't offer many services as they have just started. They need to wait on that."

"For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."

"The solution has okay stability, however, that said, it has a way to go before it keeps up to something like Azure."

"The documentation could be better."

"Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services."

"Google Cloud lacks some tools for database migration."

"I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution."

"Azure Red Hat OpenShift is not a low-price solution; it's expensive. Pricing depends on the strategy and whether you buy it directly from Red Hat or the Azure portal. Additionally, some customers may need a complete disaster recovery solution, which requires additional licensing and software products for implementation, such as backups."

"It is expensive compared to a similar product."

"Compared to Azure Cloud, Google Cloud is more expensive but it is okay."

"Google Cloud should be divided into modules so that users can buy which module will satisfy them. The overall price of Google Cloud should be reduced, Microsoft is a little bit cheaper. However, if Google divided the cloud offering it would be better. For example, if someone wants to use only for OneDrive they should be able to purchase the service separately, it would reduce the price. There is a license required to use this solution for enterprises. There is a free account, which the users can increase the size of the space. Google cloud is used in most Android Mobile device operating systems."

"The solution is cheaper than AWS."

"I don't pay for the license. For me, it's completely free."

"The licensing cost is based on the capacity we use."

"It's not really an expensive solution, but it would be better if there were more flexibility in the pricing model."

"The licensing for Google Cloud seems to be quite cheap and they're actually quite reasonable in comparison to Azure, which, as it turns out, is quite expensive. Even though Azure has a data center in South Africa it's still quite costly. There's no scaling, so if you go with the VM, you pay 2500 Rand. When you add another VM, it's another 2500 Rand even though you don't use the whole thing. With Google, you can go up as incrementally as you need to, even if it's just 30 Rand."

"Google Cloud is quite expensive, and I rate it at seven out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	38

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

The pricing for OpenShift is similar to other solutions like Docker ( /products/docker-37146-reviews ) Studio. The plans with ARO and AWS are standard in the market. However, using OpenShift on-pre...

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What needs improvement with Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

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What is your primary use case for Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

My use case for Azure Red Hat OpenShift is for an employee engagement application and HR, and I have also used it for an agentic bot.

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What needs improvement with Google Cloud?

I think perhaps the usability of Google Cloud could be one of the things that might get improved. In terms of not having to type the whole instruction I need to input to the system, just maybe some...

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What is your primary use case for Google Cloud?

My main use case for Google Cloud would be using the functions and the Vertex AI functionality, so mostly AI research and AI deployment. For my AI research and deployment, I use Vertex AI to extrac...

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What advice do you have for others considering Google Cloud?

On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate Google Cloud a nine. I choose nine because it combines a unique set of tools that are actually helpful and impactful on my daily work. Regarding Google Cloud's AI capa...

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Comparisons

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides enterprises with enhanced cloud-native flexibility and supports efficient multi-cloud migrations, simplifying infrastructure management, security, and patching.

Enterprises find Azure Red Hat OpenShift valuable for its advanced GUI, service mesh, automatic scaling, and integration capabilities. It aids regulatory compliance and streamlines application development with its DevOps integration, reducing release cycle times. The platform is appreciated for scalability, accessibility, and resilience. Users highlight its straightforward configuration, though improvements in the licensing model, cost-effectiveness, CLI, and support for data-intensive applications are needed. Orchestration, compatibility with new frameworks, and Azure dependency are areas for refinement. Built-in CI/CD tools are preferred over third-party solutions.

What are the key features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

Advanced GUI: Intuitive interface for streamlined management.
Service Mesh: Simplifies microservices management.
Automatic Scaling: Efficiently manages resources to meet demand.
Integration: Seamlessly connects with enterprise systems.
DevOps: Reduces release cycle time with unique integration.

Why consider Azure Red Hat OpenShift for your enterprise?

Cloud-Native Flexibility: Enhances adaptability for applications.
Security and Compliance: Aids in regulatory adherence.
Infrastructure Management: Simplifies with automation.
Scalability and Resilience: Handles workloads efficiently.

Businesses deploy Azure Red Hat OpenShift for pipeline management, containerized applications, and cloud migration. It supports banking operations, corporate integrations, and digital business development. Enterprises use it for Apache deployment in cloud platforms, advised by consultants transitioning from Broadcom to OpenShift.

Microsoft

Google Cloud offers a comprehensive platform renowned for cost-effectiveness, scalability, robust security, and seamless integration with tools such as Kubernetes, making it suitable for various business functions.

Google Cloud stands out for its ease of setup, stable infrastructure, and user-friendly interface. It provides essential features for AI, data analytics, and reliable storage, supporting multi-regional deployments for diverse applications. While maintaining minimal operational costs, it ensures simplified deployment and comprehensive application capabilities. However, improvements are needed in monitoring tools, customer support, documentation, and pricing options. Enhancements in stability, integration, and workload management are also required.

What are the essential features of Google Cloud?

Cost-effectiveness: Enables budget-friendly operations and reduced operational costs.
Easy Setup: Offers a straightforward and quick setup process.
Scalability: Supports growing business needs with vast resources and infrastructure.
Robust Security: Provides strong protection and compliance measures.
Seamless Integration: Effective integration with tools like Kubernetes and other applications.

What benefits and ROI can be observed?

Reduction in Operational Costs: Minimizes infrastructure and maintenance expenses.
Global Reach: Allows businesses to expand operations across multiple regions.
Flexibility: Adapts to different business models and rapid scaling needs.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Facilitates integration with existing tools and platforms.

Industries leverage Google Cloud for infrastructure management, analytics, application hosting, and development environments. Entities utilize its cloud network, machine learning support, disaster recovery solutions, and big data handling. Many rely on Workspace tools for communication and virtual machine applications for efficient IT infrastructure deployment.

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