We compared Amazon AWS and Google Firebase based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, extensive services, and excellent customer support, while users find Google Firebase appealing due to its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database functionality, scalability, ease of use, and diverse development tools. However, Amazon AWS users have concerns about the complex interface and pricing structure, while Google Firebase users seek better documentation, user interface customization, and error handling improvements.
Features: Amazon AWS is praised for its scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, diverse services, user-friendly interface, and exceptional customer support. In contrast, Google Firebase stands out for its seamless integration with Google services, real-time database capability, scalability, beginner-friendly usability, and wide range of development tools and APIs.
Pricing and ROI: According to user feedback, Amazon AWS has varying feedback regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, with valuable insights on overall cost, initial investment, and terms of usage. On the other hand, Google Firebase is praised for its reasonable pricing options, straightforward setup process, and flexible licensing agreements., Users have highly positive feedback on the ROI of both Amazon AWS and Google Firebase. AWS is praised for its cost-effectiveness and wide features, while Firebase is commended for its data management and app performance.
Room for Improvement: The Amazon AWS product could benefit from improvements in user interface intuitiveness, documentation clarity, pricing structure comprehension, customer support responsiveness, service availability, reliability, and stability. On the other hand, Google Firebase could enhance its documentation, tutorials, user interface customization options, data querying flexibility, error handling, and error messages to offer users a more efficient and user-friendly experience.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Amazon AWS and Google Firebase indicate that users have varying timeframes for deployment, setup, and implementation. Some users suggest that these should be considered separately, while others imply that they are referring to the same period., Amazon AWS's customer service and support have been praised for their promptness, efficiency, and knowledge in resolving issues. On the other hand, Google Firebase's customer service is commended for its prompt assistance, helpfulness, and friendliness. Both receive positive feedback overall.
The summary above is based on 46 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon AWS and Google Firebase users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that they offer everything around in just one platform."
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"It's highly scalable. It's guaranteed 99.99% uptime, and it shows you can scale up or scale out whenever you need more space."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"The most beautiful feature of Google Firebase is that it gives you a lot of functionalities out of the box, without you having to develop or having to complete a solution. For example, identity management is integrated, and security is out of the box, particularly security for the user and the ability of each user to see his data. I also like that Google Firebase has a really good performance and is comparable to MongoDB. It's on the same level, and sometimes, it's on an even higher level than MongoDB. Other functions that Google Firebase has that I find valuable include information dissemination, mail automation, and SMS, available out of the box. Another valuable feature of the solution is that it allows you to develop some functionalities on the server side, so you can write JavaScript functions on the server side and use those functions quite easily. Google Firebase gives you almost a full backend environment out of the box without you having to do any deployments or a lot of administration because all administration is given out of the box."
"The product’s most valuable features are integration and hosting."
"The main feature for us is that the tools are all in one place and that you don't need to bother with the backend system and the infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Google Firebase have been Analytics, Remote Config, and Crashlytics. Additionally, a lot of companies have used push notifications which is important. There is little maintenance required."
"I love Firebase's notifications, crash analytics, and bug tracking. It gives you detailed reporting about app usage and users."
"Google Firebase has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications."
"Its simplicity makes it quite handy for my needs in app development."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"I would like to see faster data migration and some support for other languages in the next release."
"Google Firebase could improve the ability to create our own reports, other than what's available on the dashboard. For example, if we want to customize the report or export the data, this is a large task."
"We had some compatibility issues with Elixir."
"Firebase's real-time information isn't technically real-time. It takes a while to upload user activity into the app. It's not as fast as Datadog, the other solution we use."
"There was no way of knowing how the rise in traffic would impact the price."
"We use Firebase for media processing and we are growing more. As we grow, the pricing goes high and it's high compared to competitors. The solution is expensive."
"The initial setup is not exactly straightforward."
"Google Firebase's app testing feature for Android, where you can upload your APK, needs improvement because it's not working very well."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Google Firebase is ranked 5th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 32 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Google Firebase is rated 8.4. 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 Firebase writes "An application development solution that has a lot of services like storage, Firestore, and push notifications". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Dell ECS, whereas Google Firebase is most compared with Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Linode. See our Amazon AWS vs. Google Firebase report.
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