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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Fargate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows the user to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate there is no need to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

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    Google Cloud Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services used to build apps or take advantage of cloud infrastructural services, achieve legacy infrastructure modernization, or manage enterprise data and analytic needs.

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    Pricing
    AWS FargateGoogle Cloud Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Fargate Spot per GB
    $0.00138679
    *per hour
    per GB
    $0.004445
    *per hour
    Fargate Spot per vCPU
    $0.01262932
    *per hour
    per vCPU
    $0.04048
    *per hour
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS FargateGoogle Cloud Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details*based on US East rates. Price varies region to region.—
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    Features
    AWS FargateGoogle Cloud Platform
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of AWS Fargate and Google Cloud Platform
    Feature
    AWS Fargate
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Google Cloud Platform
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.43 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.23 Ratings7.83 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.23 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates7.03 Ratings6.23 Ratings
    Monitoring tools7.63 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images6.42 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Operating system support6.43 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Security controls8.03 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Automation5.83 Ratings7.23 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AWS FargateGoogle Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS FargateGoogle Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Fargate is well suited for web APIs, microservices, background jobs, and applications with changing traffic. It is useful when teams want to run containers without managing servers. It is less appropriate for workloads that run constantly at large scale, need special hardware, require deep server control, or depend on very low costs and highly customized networking or storage requirements.
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    Google
    When most of our stuff is in Google Cloud Platform, it works great to integrate and cross/share data that is all in Google Cloud Platform or BigQuery. It has simplified things from a permissions perspective as well. I'd say it is less appropriate when trying to test something quickly locally, or when half your stuff is in AWS or another provider.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • scalability
    • ease of use
    • agility to up or downsize
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    Google
    • Easy to set up
    • Affordable use of the tool
    • Easy to access billing
    • Reliable service
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Offers less control over the underlying server.
    • Storage options are more limited than EC2.
    • Large numbers of tasks may hit launch-rate limits.
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    Google
    • The UI is so confusing. The console is good, but it is like a maze. There are too many menus and settings, and things do not work as expected. It takes time to get friendly, and it is not friendly for new users.
    • Support experience: Sometimes, you get a great engineer, but other times, it's very difficult to talk with them as they are unable to respond as expected and solve issues late.
    • Region and zone are issues, as not all services are available in all regions, which is lacking when deploying something in the same region or zone.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It's a very practical service to use. If you need to deploy any application with a Database, disk storage, you're pretty much set.
    Everything around that can be taken care of using other AWS services. Like secrets manager, certificate manager, RDS ...
    And the CI/CD part is also very easy to setup, you only need on AWS CLI command to trigger a deployment, and done !
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    Google
    The Google Cloud Platform console is pretty slick for BigQuery especially. I have liked the visibility I get from using that and the way to integrate and see what's in our data lake. The logging console for tracking GKE jobs isn't quite as great, which is why it doesn't get a full 10.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS provides different support tiers. They are usually very reactive and are able to help solve the issues very quickly.
    As for everything, the higher the support tier you get, the better and faster support you get.
    If you're also a part of big company, you probably have solution architects at your disposal to help you with any inqueries.
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    Google
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    We found the extra cost saved us frustration and time and ultimately money in the long run
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    Google
    Google Cloud Platform is release later than Amazon web service, I think that why Google Cloud Platform can learned and optimized the Dashboard and some features that make it easy to use and can be cheaper than amazon web service.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amazon AWS
    Pricing and billing of AWS Fargate is loosely tied to your exisiting AWS billing. You're unlikely to only use Fargate in your AWS subscription, so you get billed for everything alltoghter.
    Fargate is naturally a bit more expensive that usuel docker services, but with careful planning and architecturing, you can have a very manageable cost.
    You can also rely on Saving plans to reduce your bill.
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    Google
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Has made seasonal apps/tools cheap to run/maintain.
    • Pay for what you use helps compare many A/B tests.
    • No server management means faster deploys.
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    Google
    • It allows us to focus our efforts on other, more important items at hand
    • It gives us an affordable option letting me know it's available to all users, not just the largest scale ones out there
    • The customer service is always helpful and reliable, along with the service itself which lets me focus on my work instead of worrying about the service.
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