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We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and Heroku based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Google Cloud vs. Heroku Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use.""Google Cloud is very user-friendly.""The solution's features are very good and our staff loves using them.""It's easy to deploy next-generation applications on Google Cloud. Customers can also use various cloud tools to optimize their operations and generate more insights to do business much smarter.""Google Cloud is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud.""It eliminates capital expenditures and subsequent MNO that we would use to spend on on-prem architectures. That money is funneled towards security and connectivity provisioning.""It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear.""It's easy to work with."

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"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us.""It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things.""Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers.""Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS.""We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites.""It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good.""What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions.""I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."

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Cons
"An area of improvement would be in the of managing accounts in terms of what we are using for memory, availability, and monitoring.""Monitoring and usage reporting could be improved.""Google Cloud could improve the integration with other solutions.""The product must provide AI features.""Integration is always something that can be improved.""The Notes application could be better.""The product could always be a little bit less expensive.""Current technologies keep on changing, so definitely those new changes need to be incorporated quickly. The competition is always out there to be one step ahead. How those open-source platforms can be easily integrated into the cloud, is going to be the key in the future."

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"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time.""I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely.""The tool's configuration is complex.""Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it.""We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert.""Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure.""We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do.""I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Google cloud is less expensive than other comparable solutions."
  • "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."
  • "The best part of Google Cloud is that it is cheaper than the competitors."
  • "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."
  • "I am not familiar with the pricing, but I would guess that it is probably cheaper than Microsoft Suite"
  • "It has a monthly subscription. The customers pay based on the usage."
  • "Pricing is high compared to other solutions."
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  • "Its price is very good."
  • "The price of Heroku could be less expensive."
  • "There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."
  • "I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."
  • "The tool is free."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the… more »
    Top Answer:The product should be more cost-effective.
    Top Answer:The solution is used for storage for disaster recovery. It is used to store all the company data outside the company premises. It is also used for backups, AI processing, and database storage.
    Top Answer:I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.
    Top Answer:I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances.
    Top Answer:We use the solution to streamline mobile application deployment and management. By connecting our project's GitHub repository to Heroku, I enabled automatic deployments whenever changes were pushed to… more »
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    Overview

    Google Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service Cloud (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that provides infrastructure tools and services for building applications on top of a public cloud computing platform. As one of the leading global infrastructures, this product allows users to securely manage enterprise data, receive valuable insights, and store documents. Google Cloud provides its various services through tools and services for data warehousing, security key enforcement, application programming interface (API) management, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).

    The use cases of Google Cloud can be divided into four main categories:

    • Big data
    • Compute
    • Services
    • Storage

    The solution is utilized by organizations of all sizes and industries, as it is suitable for the following purposes:

    • Running and building applications: Google Cloud lets businesses run and build their applications anywhere because of its commitment to open-source, hybrid, and multi-cloud. This can accelerate development time as businesses avoid vendor lock-in.

    • Data insight: Google Cloud provides companies with advanced ML and analytics for their data. This can facilitate business decisions and improve work processes, as every team member can have access to data reports via this solution.

    • Security: Utilizing Google's technology, this solution helps users protect and defend their data and applications against threats and harmful activities.

    • Team collaboration: Google Cloud offers companies advanced collaboration features. They can integrate email, chat, video calling, and document collaboration all in one place when using this platform.

    Google Cloud Features

    Google Cloud offers multiple features for its clients. Some of these include:

    • Big data features: The solution offers full big data services through tools such as BigQuery and Google Cloud Dataflow. These tools allow users to process large data queries as well as create, monitor, and receive reports from data processing pipelines.

    • Containers: The solution offers containers, which allow users to speed up deployment and scale applications.

    • Cloud debugger: This feature allows users to debug code during the production process. In this way, businesses are able to locate issues early in the code and fix them before deploying the application.

    • Cloud save: This feature provides the ability to synchronize cloud-stored data across all devices an organization is supporting. Through it, users can save and retrieve information and maintain all data copies up to date.

    • Cloud trace: This Google Cloud feature allows users to detect the reasons for performance bottlenecks and fix the issues. It also provides users with information on the time their product takes to process certain requests, allowing them to follow performance more closely.

    • Hosting features: The solution offers two hosting options. App Engine is the PaaS of Google Cloud and Computes Engine is their IaaS.

    • Load balancing: This feature balances the traffic of multiple compute instances across various geographic regions.

    • Maintenance: Users receive frequent insight into the performance of their applications and through automations, Google Cloud lets them know of any issues that need to be fixed.

    Google Cloud Benefits

    Google Cloud brings various benefits to its users. Some of these include the following:

    • The pricing model of Google Cloud allows users to pay only for the selected features and tools they wish to use, which saves their organizations money.

    • Users can rely on accelerated content delivery through Google Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN).

    • Google Cloud offers a wide variety of tools and libraries, which assist users in the development of cloud applications.

    • The tool has an advanced admin control that allows users to easily add or remove new users and maintain the security of business platforms.

    • Google Cloud offers consulting services whereby experts provide assistance with cloud strategy development.

    • The platform is updated on a frequent basis, which can increase companies' productivity through consistent innovations.

    • Google Cloud offers remote access from anywhere at all times via Google's web applications.

    • The solution reduces the risks of data breaches as it offers minimal storage of offline data.

    • Users can expect support not only from the platform but from the growing online community as well, where their questions can be answered in a timely manner.

    • The product provides detailed documentation for its clients, allowing them to benefit from tutorials and other samples, in order to learn to work with it in the most efficient way.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Isuru P., an assistant vice president at a tech services company, likes Google Cloud because it is easy to deploy next-generation applications using it.

    An IT solutions consultant at a tech services company rates Google Cloud highly because they find the solution stable with a good user experience and a straightforward setup.

    Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

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    Facebook, UrbanDictionary, Code for America, Mailchimp, Rapportive, GitHub, TED, and Lyft.
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    University8%
    Educational Organization8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization45%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Computer Software Company6%
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    Computer Software Company43%
    Marketing Services Firm14%
    Sports Company14%
    Agriculture14%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Educational Organization13%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business49%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise40%
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    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise46%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business81%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
    Buyer's Guide
    Google Cloud vs. Heroku
    March 2024
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    Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews while Heroku is ranked 12th in PaaS Clouds with 27 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Heroku is rated 8.4. 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 Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". Google Cloud is most compared with Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, whereas Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). See our Google Cloud vs. Heroku report.

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