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CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued) vs. Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)

    Score6.3 out of 10
    N/ACenturyLink Public Cloud was a set of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS and cloud management tools. Later rebranded to Lumen, Lumen recommends the service's former customers migrate to Lumen Cloud Connect.N/A

    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Virtual Private Cloud has a network of 27 regions and 200+ countries and territories, boasting little to no downtime for its users. It is automatically configured or can be done by the user and allows you to bring your own IP addresses to reduce downtime caused by migration.

    $0

    per ingress traffic

    Pricing
    CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    egress traffic
    $0 - 0.15
    per GB
    ingress traffic
    $0
    based on services that process ingress traffic: Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Protocol forwarding.
    Premium Tier (egress rates)
    $0- $0.23
    per month per GB of data delivered
    Standard Tier (egress rates)
    $0.045, $0.065, $0.085
    per month per GB of data delivered: 150-500TB, 10-150TB, 0-10TB
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    I believe for small to mid business application hosting Centurylink provides an adequate service. When moving to larger scale business enviornments I believe the limitations, slowness is going to become a problem
    Incentivized
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    Google
    An effective pricing strategy is in place. Google Cloud VPC is the most secure since it runs on a private network and never contacts the public network. Google is well-known for its AI/ML and Kubernetes engines, both of which have a leg up on the competition. Google Cloud VPC's database services are yet to be improved.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Offloading the requirements for hosting apps in house - cost savings
    • Access ability - users could access documents and programs from anywhere
    • Collaborative work ability - multiple users could work within the same enviornment
    Incentivized
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    Google
    • Serverless connector helps Cloud Run services to communicate privately.
    • Serverless connector supports auto scaling.
    • Being serverless, the cost is based on usage for serverless connector.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Perhaps ease of use - it's not convoluted but a little more streamlined of an interface would be great
    • Make your presence more known - in a world of heavily advertised cloud options CenturyLink is not at the top of the pile and I think it may be due to a lack of awareness in the business community. Advertise!
    • Streamline functionality - interface can be a little slow at times.
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    Google
    • Sometimes the group settings tab lags a little
    • Although overall it's easy to use, some of the sections lack documentation
    • Routes section is very poorly implemented, requires a lot of digging to learn how to use
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    VPC is a difficult concept to grasp and recommendations for configuring it would be helpful in educating the users to make the right choice while using the product in configuring networking for their cloud deployments. Also, the user interface can be intuitively designed so as to suggest templates to perform common configurations with regard to VPC.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    I did not select the application hosting environment - I was a user. That being said I do not have much of a voice in the difference between hosted services that I have experienced.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    Google VPC and networking infrastructure is very matured and is built later after Amazon VPC. It made sure to address all the limitations faced by amazon VPC. Google Virtual private cloud is across regions while amazon VPC covers only one region but multiple zones. Google VPC is a global resource while AWS is a regional resource.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    • Using Google Cloud VPC cloud storage has saved us on infra budget and per TB storage cost
    • Using MySQL databases on Google Cloud VPC has improved the performance and cost of operation and maintenance
    • Better pricing model has improvement on operational cost and increased revenue
    Incentivized
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