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 easy to use and accessible anywhere."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud is its flexibility."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"The most useful feature of Google Cloud is that it's basically completely managed or fully managed. There is no administration or maintenance needed from the user, and it's very simple to use."
"The customer service team for this solution is very knowledgeable."
"I like that it is free. It's easy to use, and it's reliable."
"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."
"My customers appreciate all the features that Google Cloud has to offer. They are looking for solutions for computing engines, storage, web hosting, and various other needs. The most useful feature depends on their specific requirements and how they plan to utilize Google Cloud. Each customer has their own unique set of needs and the Google Cloud provides a range of options to meet those needs."
"We can easily access and integrate data sources from other platforms."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"We didn't have any problems setting it up."
"We are using Microsoft Azure because our organization uses a lot of Microsoft solutions. We have used Microsoft technology for a long time and we have internal engineers with great capability that understand the technology. This is why Azure is the best for us."
"The solution could be a bit cheaper."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code."
"Monitoring and usage reporting could be improved."
"I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud."
"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."
"Sometimes the Google documents are difficult to learn from. Amazon has better support material."
"We'd like the storage to be increased."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"It is pretty secure, but it can always be more secure."
"The initial setup can be improved."
"The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"Their backup strategy is a little complex which racks up the VM to other sole storage areas. This should be improved."
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 Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenShift, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), 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.