We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure 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."Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"The automatic sync between my mobile device data and photos to the cloud is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"It is very easy to share documents."
"The solution can scale as well."
"The customer service team for this solution is very knowledgeable."
"It is stable. It is easy to learn and very straightforward."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"Easy to deploy services"
"Microsoft Azure is an optimized solution when we compare it to any other particular cloud solution."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"The stability has been excellent."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"Great features at a good price."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"The price of the license could be cheaper."
"The price can be lowered significantly."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"The price of the solution could be more transparent."
"The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available."
"The solution should be more configurable for high-volume databases."
"The UI is beautiful but not easy to use, and also a little slow. Anything that you click is slow to load. It is also not easy to find something. I do not find the left-hand side menu good. We have a lot of options mixed there and we need the best way to deploy cloud resources. I prefer Azure ARM templates since their JSON files are easy to manipulate and integrate with other tools."
"Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"Security could be better. Once there was an attack, and we couldn't get to the cloud to see the reports for about five hours."
"When we are doing transfers of records in large amounts, for example, petabytes of data or few long datasets, the performance should not degrade as it does."
"For deploying multiple resources in a big number, such as in hundreds, we need a streamlined process and more user-friendly scrips. The scripts have to be more user-friendly, and they should also supply some standard templates to deploy multiple resources at a time. Currently, it is very easy to deploy a couple of resources, but if you want to deploy multiple resources, it becomes complex. The material that they provide for integration with an existing on-prem data center is complex. They have to make them user-friendly. The scripts related to resource management need to be simplified."
"The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to be improved."
"The license price could be lower."
"With Microsoft, our only concern is exchange rates because we're paying in dollars. It's very expensive for us because of the exchange rates. It would help if they partnered with someone locally so we can pay in our local currency."
"I would like it if Microsoft communicated better about upcoming changes before they roll them out. Sometimes when Microsoft implements changes, they don't notify the users promptly enough. I would like to know about new features, especially Office 365."
Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure 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 Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Google Cloud is most compared with Linode, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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I have worked with AWS for 4 years now and I agree with the recommendation.
If you make some research AWS will be shown as the top solution in many white papers. We made an evaluation to compare it with Google and Azure. In our case, AWS is the most cost-effective.
Depending on the solution you are running you need to check the license cost for your servers. If you have a lot of Windows solutions Azure may be a better fit.
Regarding performance, we did have an incident where the complete region was unreachable. So, make sure to consider recovery sites.
I would like to recommend MS Azure to start with.
The reasons are:
1. I bet you're using many Microsoft tools, like Office 365, Team, etc. so you're pretty familiar with the MS UX which is excellent.
2. It's easy to start/learn Azure and configurations, they have very detailed documentation online.
3. It's relatively cheaper with Azure IaaS with good starting numbers of notes/services.