Google Compute Engine Review
April 11, 2024
Google Compute Engine Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine (GCE) is the Infrastructure as a Service platform that we use for running workloads for different product/project teams. With GCE we can create custom VMs for different OS like Windows and different flavours of Linux. These VMs can support small/highly optimized configuration. GCE also provides us with ability to create high performance cloud storage spaces.
- Runs various operating systems. It also does the patch management of those OS
- Virtual Manager allows management of OS
- Provides high performance block storage
- Provides global load balancing
- Subnetworks are not supported
- Support is quite expensive
- The user interface can be complex for a first time user
- Lowers total cost of ownership
- Flexible way to add additional compute intensive resources thus improving performance
- Supports multiple OS images thus making easy to make right technology choices
- No patch management. The OS are automatically patch managed.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
GCE is available in 3 different regions whereas Ec2 is available in 11 different regions. The compute resources offered by the GCE has lower maximum capacity compared to AWS Ec2. The pricing model of GCE offers first 10 mins free and then charging in increments of 10 mins.
Both Ec2 and GCE offers high CPU/high memory and standard images
Both Ec2 and GCE offers high CPU/high memory and standard images
Do you think Google Compute Engine delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Google Compute Engine's feature set?
Yes
Did Google Compute Engine live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Google Compute Engine go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Google Compute Engine again?
Yes