We performed a comparison between Google Cloud 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."The customer service team for this solution is very knowledgeable."
"I have found almost everything valuable. Most cloud products are moving in this direction, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and security."
"I like the simple features that allow me to share documents with others."
"We can increase the storage as we need."
"The solution can scale as well."
"I have found this solution to be a quick and advanced way to run my models through."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"Google Meet is simple to use regarding configuration and recording sessions."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"One of GCE's best features is the managed instance groups."
"The support for ephemeral instances has been particularly valuable for me. It allows me to significantly reduce costs for temporary virtual machines by automatically destroying them once they are no longer needed, which can result in cost savings of up to 90 percent. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"The solution helps to direct SSH into the machine at the click of a button. It also helps to deploy container images right from the UI. There is no need to manage the containers on the machine. I also like the tool’s Spot provision model."
"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"We'd like the storage to be increased."
"The solution could be a bit cheaper."
"Its integration with one of the third-party platforms could be better."
"Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English."
"I feel that the Google product is incomplete with regard to internal communications. It is an area that needs some improvement."
"The security of the solution can always be improved."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"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."
"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 would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"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."
"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."
Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews while Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift, 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 Google Cloud vs. Google Compute Engine report.
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