Google Cloud Storage vs Google Workspace comparison

Google Cloud Storage and Google Workspace are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. Google Cloud Storage is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while Google Workspace is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1. Google Cloud Storage holds a 9.5% mindshare in CS, compared to Google Workspace’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Google Cloud Storage users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Google Workspace users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 5, 2025

Google Workspace and Google Cloud Storage compete in the collaboration and cloud storage categories respectively. Google Workspace gains the upper hand with its enhanced productivity and collaboration features while Google Cloud Storage is valued for its secure, scalable storage solutions.

Features: Google Workspace provides robust collaboration tools such as document sharing, real-time editing, and seamless integration with Gmail, Google Meet, and Drive. Its intuitive interface enhances user experience. Google Cloud Storage offers secure and scalable storage with comprehensive access controls and seamless data access across devices.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace could improve pricing transparency, offline capabilities, and Microsoft Office integration. Enhancing email organization and collaboration features would benefit users. Google Cloud Storage could offer more free storage, improve security transparency, and simplify external platform integration for better user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Google Workspace and Google Cloud Storage offer straightforward cloud-based deployment. Google Workspace is simpler to set up due to its integrated suite of tools. Customer service experiences vary; Google Workspace users often seek better support, while Google Cloud Storage users find documentation robust and helpful.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace generally has higher costs due to per-user subscriptions but promises significant ROI through productivity gains. Google Cloud Storage offers free options with limited storage and scalable pricing for extra needs, with users acknowledging its cost-efficiency and flexible payment models.

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Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud Storage

Ranking in Cloud Storage

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Public Cloud Storage Services (3rd)

Google Workspace

Ranking in Cloud Storage

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

101

Ranking in other categories

Email Applications (1st), Wireless Email (2nd), Content Collaboration Platforms (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Google Cloud Storage is 9.5%, down from 12.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Workspace is 3.7%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Naresh Kumar

Founder & Director at Hiindsight Group

Offers great reliability to users

Protection is an area in the product where improvements are required. If big companies want to use the tool for protection purposes, like security, which is a big thing people are looking for nowadays. Sometimes, the tool's user interface automatically puts all the files in a different place, making it a bit difficult to go deep and figure out in which folder a file is present. I need to search for a file and drill down to be able to find it. There are a few bugs in the tool, as with all content management tools, since the solution is usually used to deal with huge amounts of content. If the flow of the documents is huge, the tool might get slow for the end users, or when the data is being migrated or imported into the tools.

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Sunil-Nair

IT Manager at Universal Carpets & Rugs

Email collaboration and accessibility have improved team productivity

The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive. People are given email access to Google Drive. The team can share manual files and work accordingly. They can access different teams from anywhere, collectively putting files, sharing them, and managing them. Additionally, the manufacturing product does not require any downgrades. It works fine and continuously for the last three or four years. Users can access their emails from anywhere in their browser without a laptop or can directly access from Gmail. This is helpful for salespeople.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Access your files from anywhere, no installation necessary"

"The most valuable features of Google Cloud Storage are flexibility and sustainability."

"It is seamlessly integrated with your Android. There’s no fuss, no hassle."

"What I like most about Google Cloud Storage is that it's very stable, very quick, and very useful."

"The most valuable features of Google Cloud Storage include easy API integration for querying, downloading, and uploading files."

"It's easy to use."

"The solution is very flexible."

"You do not need to install anything."

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"Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner."

"The product can scale easily."

"The most valuable feature of Google Workspace is the sheets and documents."

"The solution is easy to use, and you don't need a lot of knowledge for it."

"If I'm addressing certain emails from banks — automatic emails, like OTP, etc. — I can create rules and forward that OTP to the specific email IDs. You can create rules and deliver mail to different groups using the forwarding feature. It's handy."

"It is quite a useful tool. It allows many people to work on a document. You can actually provide review comments and tag anybody to make the comment changes. You can also attach a document in Google Chat."

"Being able to back up our data on Google Drive is a critical and valuable feature for our customers. It is just in sync. Imagine you change a file on the desktop, and it gets updated directly to your Google Drive. Our laptop is completely in sync with Google Drive. Google Meet, Google Sheets, and Google Docs are also amazing products. They're very versatile and easy to use as compared to Office 365. I am using Google Sheets and Google Docs, which first save the work on my memory or ROM, and then on my RAM. It gives me better productivity through Google Sheets and Google Docs."

"Google integrates well with our system. G Suite has an open API, so you can connect any open system with Google capable of working with API. This is the main reason we use it."

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Cons

"The solution is good, however, it would benefit from increased storage without the additional cost."

"Google Cloud Storage can improve by having better integration and migration tools."

"The solution must provide some accessibility features."

"In the next release, if improvements are made to the GPU instances for machine learning, for example, it would be helpful."

"The user interface could be more intuitive."

"The implementation is not as easy as Microsoft, and the process could be improved."

"The problem I face right now is that my data warehouse is being hosted on Google Cloud, however, integration between Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure is a big problem."

"The solution could improve by adding an automatic removal of duplications feature."

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"I would rate the stability a five out of ten."

"G Suite could offer something a little more solid in terms of chat — something that is a little more like Slack and integrates with everything. But, unfortunately, the chat is very basic there. It doesn't offer that many features and feels like it doesn't belong there."

"G-Suite is excellent for what we're trying to do, but it could use some extra features. For example, it would be helpful if we had a seamless way to convert Excel macros to Google Sheets."

"If you use a name with a special character like a slash in the folder, it will crash the migration, with no warning. There is no pre-warning or anything to tell you that if you use characters in a file name that it will crash the migration."

"The tool should improve its on-prem capabilities to include people who are working offline. The pricing is also a challenge for both the Indian and overseas markets. The tool has a cap of 300 licenses. The product's price has also increased by 10 percent. Businesses are struggling to justify the ROI. Users cannot block emails unless they have a strong firewall."

"We need more functionality with Google Sheets"

"The user interface, especially on Google Drive, could be better."

"There are times the plugins or extensions in the solution do not work properly and I need to disable and enable the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They know that the pricing is comparable with Azure, AWS, and those other solutions like Amazon are cheaper, but they are not as flexible."

"Approximately 800 to 1,000 USD is paid towards the licensing costs of the solution. The solution is neither expensive nor cheap, meaning it is moderately priced. There are no extra costs apart from the licensing costs of the solution."

"The tool is not expensive."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a nine to ten out of ten."

"I am paying a yearly subscription fee."

"If you want a shared file system, you have to buy a server with the minimum capacity of one TB."

"I pay a yearly subscription fee."

"The solution is free."

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"There are several areas where a G Suite implementation can reduce costs: lower license fees than some competing products, reduced hardware, and IT support costs."

"The pricing is comparable, it's pretty decent."

"2,500 Rupees per month per user."

"You pay for Google Workspace based on your usage and the apps you use, but in my case, it's free, but if I used it a lot more, I'd probably need to pay. 15GB is enough for me, but I see myself upgrading and paying the additional charges for more storage regularly."

"The price of G Suite Enterprise is reasonable compared to HotSpot. I'm not going to say G Suite Enterprise is affordable. It's valuable, you find value in paying your gas bill or your electricity bill, because of what it allows you to do."

"Traffic management tools may be required for larger setups and should be included in any pricing calculations."

"The main challenge regarding startups with identity services is you could be on a platform that works well but the services are expensive. For example, Microsoft Azure costs approximately $30 per user which is expensive. You end up choosing a different platform, such as G Suite Enterprise because it is priced reasonably and is less expensive than other solutions."

"The pricing is very high, although I cannot tell if this is the result of the Indian vendors artificially inflating it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

74%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Cloud Storage?

It is flexible and simple to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Storage?

Depending on your setup, Google Cloud Storage is economical, especially if you do not need high stability and scalability. We use it for backup, so the storage that is not used often is affordable.

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What needs improvement with Google Cloud Storage?

So far, when it comes to security, it meets our needs and requirements, so I have nothing to say about improvements to their services. I do not find any areas needing improvement currently.

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What do you like most about Google Workspace?

Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Workspace?

I'm not satisfied with the cost because I feel these services should be free as they use our data.

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What needs improvement with Google Workspace?

As far as Google Workspace is concerned, it is working fine for us. Our needs are fulfilled, so that's fine. However, integration with Microsoft Outlook could be improved. The new integration was i...

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G-Suite Enterprise, G-Suite, Google Apps for Business, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G-Suite Basic, G-Suite Business, Google Vault

Overview

Google Cloud Storage is praised for its fast performance, seamless integration, high security, and scalability. Users store and access large amounts of data easily, backup files, host websites, and collaborate on projects. The platform's reliability and cost-effectiveness make it a top choice for data storage and management.

Google

Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

As we’ve evolved G Suite into a more integrated experience across our communication and collaboration tools, we’ve rebranded to Google Workspace to more accurately represent the product vision.

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Sample Customers

1. Adobe 2. Airbnb 3. Amazon 4. Apple 5. AT&T 6. Baidu 7. Cisco 8. Coca-Cola 9. Dell 10. eBay 11. Facebook 12. Ford 13. Google 13. HP 14. IBM 15. Intel 16. JPMorgan Chase 17. LinkedIn 18. Lyft 19. Microsoft 20. Netflix 21. Nike 22. Oracle 23. PayPal 24. Pinterest 25. Qualcomm 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Tesla 29. Toyota 30. Twitter 31. Visa 32. Walmart 33. WeWork

There are over five million businesses that use Google Apps for Business worldwide. Some key customers include The Roche Group, National Geographic, American Red Cross, City of Los Angeles, Flight Centre, and Konica Minolta.

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