Google Compute Engine vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) comparison

Google Compute Engine vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

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Categories and Ranking

Google Compute Engine

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

10th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

3rd

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (4th), Container Registry (5th)

Featured Reviews

Ivy W.

Senior Data Scientist at Breuninger

Aug 31, 2023

A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution

I would say that Google Compute Engine is easy to use for skilled people and people with a tech background. For regular users who do not have experience with the cloud platform, it is not very user-friendly. If you wish to use Compute Engine, you must know a lot of technical terms such as availability, instance, and scalability. You also need to choose the proper instance for you. In my experience, there is a standard option, an advanced option, and a customized option for Google Compute Engine. You can choose the Compute Engine with high speed or with memory speed. All of this is too much for a person who is not tech-savvy. I am not sure whether they designed it like that on purpose or if they plan on improving it. I cannot think of any features that need to be upgraded.

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Praveen Kumar P

Application Development Manager at Accenture

Mar 11, 2024

Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX

Earlier, when we created an SR (Service Request), it used to be personally addressed by a person till closure. Nowadays, users are routed to Oracle Cloud Connect, a MetaLink where you find your documents. We are not seeing much personal attention from Oracle on addressing issues. People come up with different experiences and knowledge levels. There is no human guidance, and users are routed to Oracle Cloud Connect. It is good for some people who know everything and can understand everything. However, our problem may not be exactly the same as the one given in Oracle Cloud Connect. Being routed to Oracle Cloud Connect is not a good experience with the customer. Earlier, an SR used to be personally handled by a person who used to explain and give all the information. We used to go through the information, understand it, have our questions addressed, and then close it. That's how it used to happen. Nowadays, every SR is referred to Oracle Cloud Connect without a person actually handling the customer.

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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

"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."

"Google Compute is highly scalable."

"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."

"The support for ephemeral instances has been particularly valuable for me. It allows me to significantly reduce costs for temporary virtual machines by automatically destroying them once they are no longer needed, which can result in cost savings of up to 90 percent. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."

"I recommend the tool to others since it has high availability features, scalability, and stability."

"The solution is readily available, and software engineers can provision it. It is scalable and allows self-service."

"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."

"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."

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"The solution offers many features and it is a complete replica of our data center."

"The solution is stable."

"The most valuable feature is the monitoring."

"The most valuable features of the solution are APEX, Threat Detector, and Cloud Guard."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a cloud-based solution."

"It has improved my company by cutting my time to market."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"OCI's best features are its price, databases, and Linux compatibility."

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Cons

"The high availability features in Google are only available in Google Compute Engine in different regions. If I have another server outside Google, the high availability features in Google cannot synchronize with such a server."

"It has some limitations. For example, you don't get through layer two connectivity. So I've had some difficulty deploying custom VMs. For example, you can't deploy a KVM file to file directly on GCP."

"Google Compute Engine needs to have multi-region support. It would also be nice to have a tracking mechanism."

"There have been instances when a customer has tried to deploy a certain number of VMs inside a project, and they come across quota issues."

"I would like to improve the solution’s UI while deploying a container. It is sometimes hard to figure out the container’s details and format that you want to deploy. The tool does not give you a guide to find out the error and why the container is not starting up which could be because you have configured it wrong. This is always a hit on the setup."

"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."

"Google Compute Engine does not have many options at a lower tier level. If they had more options it will be better. For example, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, have more options and different types of instances, of VMs we can select."

"Google has a lack of focus on their products."

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"The scalability requires some improvement. This is one of the most important things they need to get better at."

"The deployment from on-premises to the cloud is a bit complicated."

"Oracle Cloud is not a user-friendly tool. From an improvement perspective, I want Oracle Cloud to be more user-friendly."

"Managed services for Postgres are not available in Oracle Cloud."

"The product features related to the manufacturing domain must be improved."

"The price of the subscription is too high and excludes some potential customers."

"With Oracle you have to create your own roles and it is more complex."

"The solution should integrate better with other tools and different vendors."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of improvement, one is definitely the licensing piece. So there is a feature, the BYOL (Bring Your Own License) licensing piece, to bring your own license. It is not that straightforward. It requires some support from Google to get it sorted, access those licenses, and configure those licenses."

"I rate GCE's pricing a five out of ten since it's affordable."

"Google is providing money for learning Google Compute Engine. They offer a $300 free trial to new customers. Any beginner can easily get started."

"Google Compute Engine's pricing is flexible and the best of all other alternatives."

"The tool is reasonably priced, considering its scalability features. If we want to extend the server's capacity, we can do it, and I think it's reasonable."

"Google Compute Engine is not the least expensive solution. Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft One, are offering a less expensive solution. The price is based on usage. Whenever we use it, we have to pay for only usage. It is a pay-as-you-go model."

"It's $60,000 to $70,000 a month to replace about $10,000 a month in data center costs."

"The solution is expensive according to services and competition. Also, it is not prevalent in the market. I rate the solution’s pricing a seven on a scale of ten, where ten is expensive, and one is cheap."

"The product offers a subscription-based licensing model."

"The solution is expensive. I would rate the pricing as ten out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"In Oracle Cloud Platform, one needs to make payments towards the subscription charges."

"We pay the subscription cost."

"It's very expensive compared to AWS."

"The solution is cheaper compared to Oracle E-Business Suite."

"It is cheaper as a solution model. It isn’t cheaper than SAP but offers more features and competition."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

University

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Compute Engine?

Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Compute Engine?

Google resources are cheaper compared to AWS and Microsoft Azure. Among the three, Google is the cheapest option.

What needs improvement with Google Compute Engine?

Google has a lack of focus on their products. They have many products in various areas of the market, but they do not productize or appeal to the market effectively. They should concentrate on prod...

What are the biggest differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors?

Differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud,w and SAP SuccessFactors:w Oracle: "simple interface and deep customization to suit the purpose." SAP: Multiple functionalities that increase process effi...

What do you like most about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry?

It's reliable, performs well, and is often faster than running applications on separate machines due to optimized performance and networking capabilities within OCI.

What needs improvement with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry?

It could be improved on the user-friendly side. Our clients are still building, they are beginners now. So that's the thing. They are developing day by day. I think now they have given OCI simple s...

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Overview

Google Compute Engine delivers virtual machines running in Google's innovative data centers and worldwide fiber network. Compute Engine's tooling and workflow support enable scaling from single instances to global, load-balanced cloud computing.

Compute Engine's VMs boot quickly, come with persistent disk storage, and deliver consistent performance. Our virtual servers are available in many configurations including predefined sizes or the option to create Custom Machine Types optimized for your specific needs. Flexible pricing and automatic sustained use discounts make Compute Engine the leader in price/performance.

Cloud services where you need them

Your need for sovereignty, compliance, and location-specific performance should not limit your access to the latest cloud innovations. OCI gives you access to a full portfolio of cloud services wherever you need them. With a wide range of cloud options, including on-premises, dedicated Cloud@Customer, hybrid, multicloud solutions such as Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure, or public cloud, OCI’s distributed cloud portfolio—available across regions worldwide—solves your toughest business challenges.

Optimize enterprise applications without costly rearchitecture

When modernizing your enterprise apps, abandoning core technology isn’t feasible or necessary for success. OCI is built to address the unique requirements of performance-sensitive on-premises applications and other traditional enterprise apps—scale-up architectures, ultralow-latency networks, built-in security, and clustering of resources for availability in the cloud without risky and costly application refactoring. Additionally, OCI's specialized migration tools and programs facilitate easy transitioning.

Build and run cloud native or third-party apps with open source tools

Modern enterprises deserve the flexibility and freedom to choose from the various frameworks, clouds, and services available. Be it Postgres, SQL Server, Windows Server, VMware, or Kubernetes, OCI services are designed to easily run third-party, open source applications or to build cloud native applications. Our broad open source partner ecosystem enables you to bring apps to market faster, easily innovate, and scale.

Harness your data to uncover new business value

Data drives your business. Whether you’re building next-gen social applications or online games or seeking better outcomes from decades of healthcare data, making data work is getting harder. OCI services such as Oracle MySQL Heatwave and Oracle Autonomous Database service support all your data models, remove data silos, converge data for efficiency, and analyze data—helping you unlock business potential without sacrificing security and governance controls.

Sample Customers

Allthecooks, BetterCloud, Bluecore, Cosentry, Evite, Ezakus, HTC, Infectious Media, iStreamPlanet, Mendelics, SageMathCloud, Sedex, Treeptik, Wibigoo, Wix, zulily, Zync

Kenya Airways, Cell, Panasonic, Frontera, M&C Saatchi, Lumentum, WA

Google Compute Engine vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)