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Google Cloud vs Microsoft Azure comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
Organizations benefit from Google Cloud by shortening project timelines and utilizing cost-free tools, achieving substantial time and cost savings.
Sentiment score
7.2
Organizations experience up to 70% savings, improved performance, flexibility, and high productivity using Microsoft Azure, despite data cost concerns.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
Google Cloud's support is seen as competent but often criticized for slow response times and separate cost requirements.
Sentiment score
6.5
Microsoft Azure's support is responsive and knowledgeable, but response times and efficiency vary based on support tiers and contracts.
I consider them good partners when it comes to support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Google Cloud's scalability and Kubernetes integration enable effortless expansion, appealing to users despite cost considerations.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Azure offers efficient scalability with adaptable resources, though some users experience cost and resource limit challenges.
Scalability with Microsoft Azure is amazing, which is a primary reason for using cloud solutions.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Google Cloud is praised for reliability, scoring high in stability, but some note rare service-specific issues compared to competitors.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Azure is highly regarded for its stability and reliability, despite occasional minor issues, making it a preferred choice.
Microsoft Azure is quite stable, but recent outages and security issues have slightly decreased my confidence.
 

Room For Improvement

Google Cloud needs improvements in usability, cost, support, integration, security, training, resources, language support, and service expansion.
Microsoft Azure users face challenges with pricing, compatibility, documentation, user interface, integration, security, scaling, support, and localization.
Providing more hypervisors would be beneficial.
Recent outages and security issues are also a concern, causing a decrease in confidence, especially when partnering with third-party companies.
 

Setup Cost

Google Cloud offers flexible pay-as-you-go pricing, but some users find it pricier than competitors like Azure and AWS.
Microsoft Azure's pricing models offer cost-effectiveness and flexibility, though complexity and unpredictability remain challenges for some users.
As far as I know, it is a little more expensive compared to other cloud options.
Microsoft solutions might be cheaper than some services like AWS, but some solutions may be more expensive depending on the services compared.
 

Valuable Features

Google Cloud offers powerful features like user-friendliness, scalability, security, and managed services, appealing to diverse developer and user needs.
Microsoft Azure offers flexibility, scalability, ease of use, high availability, security, and efficient deployment with its pay-as-you-go model.
If customers use different technologies within their environment, GCP cannot offer a full performance analysis covering all the disclosures.
Power BI, another feature of Azure, is extremely elegant and has robust features that support forecasting using R and Python.
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
5th
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
1st
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
313
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Google Cloud is 8.4%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure is 19.3%, up from 18.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

RaidHammouri - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring solution enhances cost efficiency with good internal tools
In terms of Google services, providing more hypervisors would be beneficial. Currently, in my region, they don't offer many services as they have just started. They have some local instances, yet improvements are needed in the tools and offers provided to customers. I currently only use, for example, a native hybrid. VMware is not available, and other hypervisors are still not there. They need to wait on that.
Nicolas Chabrier - PeerSpot reviewer
Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration
The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible. So basically, it's wonderful if you manage Microsoft clearly and if you manage Microsoft Azure, but if you need to consume external services and have a global overview of all your consumption, it's not the case. Google, for instance, has tools that help you manage multiple environments, which makes sense because Google is really the cloud provider. So that's why they need to be compliant with the others. But for sure, Microsoft's approach is different, and it's wonderful when you're one hundred percent on Azure. But if you'd like to have something more of a multi-cloud strategy, that's a bit of a gap where they could improve.
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 14, 2013
Amazon vs Rackspace vs Microsoft vs Google: Cloud Hosting Services Comparison
Amazon Web Services, Rackspace OpenStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and Google are the major cloud hosting and storage service providers. Athough Amazon is top of them and is oldest in cloud market, Rackspace, Microsoft and Google are giving tough competition to each other and to Amazon also for…
 

Answers from the Community

ikextian - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 9, 2022
Jul 9, 2022
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 soluti...
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SZ
Jul 5, 2022
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. 
WH
Jul 9, 2022
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.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
51%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
5%
Educational Organization
46%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Cloud?
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 ...
What needs improvement with Google Cloud?
In terms of Google services, providing more hypervisors would be beneficial. Currently, in my region, they don't offer many services as they have just started. They have some local instances, yet i...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud?
My platform offers a monitoring solution for the virtual machines hosted in GCP. GCP is one of the firms that I work with. For customers who use GCP as an infrastructure service, software as a serv...
Which is preferable - IBM Public Cloud or Microsoft Azure?
IBM Public Cloud is IBM’s Platform-as-a-Service. It aims to provide organizations with a secure cloud environment to manage data and applications. One of the features we like is the cloud activity ...
Which is better - SAP Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure?
One of the best features of SAP Cloud Platform is that it is web-based and you can log in from anywhere in the world. SAP Cloud Platform is suitable for companies of any size; it works well with bo...
How does Microsoft Azure compare to Google Firebase?
I would recommend Google Firebase instead of Microsoft Azure, simply for the array of features that it has to offer. In particular, the Firebase library grants you access to a shared data structure...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Windows Azure, Azure, MS Azure
 

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Sample Customers

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BMW, Toyota, easyJet, NBC Sports, HarperCollins, Aviva, TalkTalk Business, Avanade, and Telenor.
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