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Equinix Metal vs Google Cloud comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Equinix Metal
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
20th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Cloud
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Equinix Metal is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud is 4.0%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Cloud4.0%
Equinix Metal0.9%
Other95.1%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

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AnjaneyaVara Prasad - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Retailer
9%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
7%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise37
 

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What needs improvement with Google Cloud?
Better discounting and discount offers, especially for long-running servers, would be a very good option. A localized cloud in the MENA region would also be very important for us because we are ope...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud?
We are using Google Cloud Kubernetes service. We are using Cloud Build. We are using the PostgreSQL managed service. We are hosting our software platform on Google Cloud. We are using Kubernetes to...
What advice do you have for others considering Google Cloud?
I'm not working with Honeycomb. Google Cloud is a cloud provider and it's still a strong option to choose. However, I would personally prefer AWS. My overall rating for Google Cloud is seven out of...
 

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