We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and Heroku based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"The solution's features are very good and our staff loves using them."
"What I like most about Google Cloud is its stability. I also like that its GUI works fine for my company."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It's a perfect tool for startups."
"Google Cloud is 100 percent stable."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"When companies grow at a larger scale, they may shift to a different cloud services provider like AWS or Oracle."
"The product should be more cost-effective."
"My only concern is that a number of the offerings are built on their own proprietary technologies which means means that, with respect to the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers."
"The product must provide AI features."
"Uploading documents could be simplified."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"They could integrate artificial intelligence into the applications."
"I cannot recall coming across any missing features."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews while Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 28 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Heroku 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 Heroku writes "Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, whereas Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Amazon Lightsail. See our Google Cloud vs. Heroku report.
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