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 a good alternative solution. I think it's a better fit for Mac operating systems than Windows. If you're utilizing Google Cloud for something like big data, then their big query is decent."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Cloud Run is pretty helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud is its flexibility."
"The solution's features are very good and our staff loves using them."
"The performance is a valuable feature."
"I haven't had any trouble setting up Google Cloud."
"Technical support has been good."
"This is a very stable product."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"It is a very straightforward solution that provides a wide range of services."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"Google Cloud lacks some tools for database migration. I've only used MySQL and AWS in my career, so those are the only ones I can compare. AWS has a database migration tool that you can integrate with a cloud backup, so can take that backup and restore it in the AWS public cloud, but it's not the same with Google Cloud."
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud."
"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."
"Google is slower to support .NET."
"Technical support needs help."
"I find it hard to download items, especially on their operating system."
"Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution."
"I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their history data, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients."
"It could be more flexible. If you look at all Mircosoft products, they are not up to the mark. For example, Azure Ready doesn't provide the same kind of access a domain administrator has and the kind of flexibility that they have when using Active Directory. Microsoft support could be better. Their service could also be better. For example, specific policies for templates suddenly become unavailable. When I checked, they said that certain things might be withdrawn based on customer feedback. This happened once or twice, and it wasn't available at all for five days, it just went down."
"Ease of use could be improved."
"Integration with other services could be much better."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"It would be helpful if it offered more integration with other platforms."
"The third-party data-sharing features must be improved."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
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.