Item: Google Compute Engine
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Google Compute Engine for hosting Backend for our Project which is making Gen AI based chatbots, so my work here is in security and monitoring field and for that I need Google Compute Engine to host ops related tools as Grafana, Jaeger and also to host flask backend there, it is easily scalable hence we are using it with its easy to use interface

Pros and Cons

Scalability, as we needed the backend and our number of users were less so we used e2 medium and then when it went in production we used e2 large instance
Easy to configure, switching between settings and configuration was too easy just by some clicks and all things are done, including ports, security, etc
Snapshots and Virtual machine Image creation feature is too good when we don't need machine we stop it and create a snapshot of it for future use.

Networking configurations are somewhat hard to configure we need to add rules and policies and there I got confused a lot of time
Should include Automatic Scalability and Costing accordingly

Return on Investment

Secure and reliable hosting made our company save money by not Taking extra measures
Hosting charges are also pretty low so it saved a lot
Backing up using snapshot made this process efficient

Performance

I gave this rating due to its easy to configure settings in scaling up and down, fault tolerance by backing up using snapshots and gave 2 points less due to network settings and somewhere for latency

Reliability and Availability

Due to its robust infrastructure it is highly available when it is needed, we need to satisfy the clients requirements in one month and to set up all these servers was headache and we did all this things using Google Compute Engine in less than a week

Key Insights

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Compute Engine go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Compute Engine again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

It is best suited for hosting applications and back-end which does not require real time processing as fast as trading so we have used it for chatbots backend but for data analytics in real time we needed ultra low latency so we don't use it in our that data project

Google Compute Engine the time and capital Saviour with superpowers like Hyper Reliability and super Performance.

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine