We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean and Google Compute Engine 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."I like Kubernetes integration."
"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."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"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 auto-scaling."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"Google is managing all hardware. You don't need to provision or pre-provision your computer engine."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"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"
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"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."
"I would like to improve the solution’s UI while deploying a container. It is sometimes hard to figure out the container’s details and format that you want to deploy. The tool does not give you a guide to find out the error and why the container is not starting up which could be because you have configured it wrong. This is always a hit on the setup."
"There have been instances when a customer has tried to deploy a certain number of VMs inside a project, and they come across quota issues."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"Google Compute Engine does not have many options at a lower tier level. If they had more options it will be better. For example, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, have more options and different types of instances, of VMs we can select."
"The biggest problem is that it's got a very archaean and complex security environment that has to be very carefully set up and is easy to break."
DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Google Compute Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), IBM Public Cloud and Amazon AWS. See our DigitalOcean vs. Google Compute Engine report.
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