We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Google Cloud 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 AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"AWS has large community support."
"It is stable. For the cloud version, we require some installation platforms and we don't have a server with us right now. We require it from Amazon AWS. We can just plan and get the AWS server."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"It is easy to use and has a very familiar interface."
"What I like most about Google Cloud is its stability. I also like that its GUI works fine for my company."
"The performance is a valuable feature."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"I have found almost everything valuable. Most cloud products are moving in this direction, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and security."
"Google Cloud's most valuable features are its performance and ease of access."
"You can just connect and start using it through a browser within a few minutes."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"Our use case is limited to virtual services and RPA development. We are not using it quite heavily, and there are not many issues or problems so far. However, it would be great if it could be integrated with more AI features and proactive monitoring. It could also have more automatic capacity expansion features. For example, when renting out some space, memory, or computing power, the service can have the capacity to expand by itself without being manually handled by us."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"While feasible, custom configuration will be more time consuming than standard."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"The price of the solution could be more transparent."
"Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"Another issue is the applicability of local language data capturing mechanisms, which are more advanced on cloud service providers, but still there is room to grow. Also, their hybrid version isn't available in all markets worldwide, so I'm hoping that it will be released globally soon"
"Workload management could be better. Their pricing could also be more flexible."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Cloud is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 66 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Cloud 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.