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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Run

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Run enables users to build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (including Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform. Cloud Run can be paired with other container ecosystem tools, including Google's Cloud Build, Cloud Code, Artifact Registry, and Docker. And it features out-of-the-box integration with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Error Reporting to ensure the health of an application.N/A

    Google Kubernetes Engine

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Kubernetes Engine supplies containerized application management powered by Kubernetes which includes Google Cloud services including load balancing, automatic scaling and upgrade, and other Google Cloud services.

    $0.04

    vCPU-hr Autopilot Mode

    Pricing
    Google Cloud RunGoogle Kubernetes Engine
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD)
    $0
    GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD)
    $0.0000438
    GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - Regular Price
    $0.0000548
    GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - Spot Price
    $0.0000548
    GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - Spot Price
    $0.0014767
    GKE Autopilot Pod Memory Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD)
    $0
    GKE Autopilot Pod Memory Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD)
    $0.0039380
    GKE Autopilot Pod Memory Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - Regular Price
    $0.0049225
    GKE Autopilot Price GB-hr
    Autopilot Mode - Spot Price
    $0.0133
    GKE Autopilot vCPU Price vCPU-hr
    Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD)
    $0.02
    GKE Autopilot vCPU Price vCPU-hr
    Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD)
    $0.0356000
    GKE Autopilot vCPU Price vCPU-hr
    Autopilot Mode - Regular Price
    $0.0445
    vCPU Price vCPU-hr
    Standard Mode
    $0.10
    per hour
    Cluster Management
    $0.10
    per cluster per hour
    Cluster Management
    $74.40 monthly credit
    per month per hour
    Standard Mode - Free Version
    Free
    per hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud RunGoogle Kubernetes Engine
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud RunGoogle Kubernetes Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Cloud Run
    It has a similar purpose in terms of hosting and orchestrating applications in Docker containers. GoogleCloud Run stands out for being much easier and more intuitive to maintain and configure, and can even be used by teams with little knowledge of container orchestration …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Run
    Usage is easy and also we have GCP as out cloud partner hence we made up our mind to go with Cloud Run and so far no issues things are going fine with it. and getting good features from Google in it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Run
    Google Cloud Run is integrated into GCP resources, admin, and billing. But it is not as easy to use as some other platforms like Heroku.
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Google Cloud RunGoogle Kubernetes Engine
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Google Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine
    Feature
    Google Cloud Run
    7.3
    17 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Google Kubernetes Engine
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Security and Isolation8.017 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Container Orchestration7.616 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Cluster Management6.41 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Storage Management2.71 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization8.517 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.213 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks8.216 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.514 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.017 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google Cloud RunGoogle Kubernetes Engine
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud RunGoogle Kubernetes Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud RunGoogle Kubernetes Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Microservices and RestFul API application as it is fast and reliant. Seamless integration with event triggers such as pubsub or event arc, so you can easily integrate that with usecases with file uploads, database changes, etc. Basically great with short-lived tasks, if however, you have long-running processses, Cloud Run might not be idle for this. For example if you have a long running data processing task, other solutions such as kubeflow pipelines or dataflow are more suited for this kind of tasks. Cloud Run is also stateless, so if you need memory, you will have to connect an external database.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    If your application is complex, if it's planet-scale, or if you need autoscaling, then Kubernetes is best suited. If your application is straightforward, you can opt for App Engine or Cloud Run. In many cases, you can prefer to run the cloud on GKE. But once you deploy on Kubernetes, you get the flexibility to try different things. But if you don't seek flexibility, it's not an option for you.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Auto scaling is the best one
    • provide direct VPC connectivity and rigid network
    • Cloud SQL and Pub/Sub services
    • Handling latency issues
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    Google
    • Engine upgrade rollout strategy - well documented and configurable
    • Integration with other Google Cloud services like the Compute Engine, SaaS databases, and some cloud networking like Cloud Armor
    • Graphical interface for a lot of operations - either for a quick peek/overview or actual work done by administrators and/or developers (via the Google Cloud Console, for example)
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    Cons
    Google
    • The UI can be made simpler. Currently the UI is bloated and it takes time to find out what you want
    • More integrations with container registry providers (ECR, dockerhub)
    • Better permissions UX. Currently GCP requires service accounts to be used with cloud products, the experience adding/removing permissions is difficult to navigate
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    Google
    • Support of IPv6.
    • Better GitOps.
    • A "serverless" Kubernetes so we can install Google config connector will be really awesome.
    • Container-native load balancers do not support internal TCP/UDP load balancers or network load balancers.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    We definitely need to renew it because we dont own our own infrastructure and storage and we are happy with Cloud Run features
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    The UI/console is great... the documentation is top-notch for developers, but the CLI itself when you have to script around it is very complex and easy to forget some options... the downside of a generic command line client.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    • Google Kubernetes Engine has a good UI and documentation that facilitates setup and helps get projects moving along quickly
    • Its built-in logging integrations with StackDriver make it easier to monitor the application and log issues quickly
    • Automated orchestration, deployment, and scaling of nodes and networking are all easily configurable with yaml files
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    Not seen any major issues when we run applications its good
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Google
    Initially we felt slow but slowly it picked up and easy to manage
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    Google
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    Support Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Very good Kubernetes distribution with a reasonable total price. Integration with storage and load balancer for ingress and services speed up every process deployment.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    I was involved in the initial implementation setup, Its easy with the given documentaiton we can do ourself. Not that critical
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    Google
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    AWS Lambda supports code zip package, enabling lower cold start time. Also, AWS Lambda pricing is much simpler, easier to understand.
    Other than that, the 2 products are very similar, including the Docker image support: the image must be built based on proprietary base image.
    Obviously, if your other services are running in GCP, then Google Cloud Run is your only choice for tight integration, & private networking.
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    Google
    GKE spins up new nodes a LOT faster than AKS. GKE's auto scaler runs a lot smoother than AKS. GKE has a lot more Kubernetes features baked in natively.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    Not part of purchase.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Google
    It has good auto scale feature and reliable also
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Google
    We have very good support when needed
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    Google
    • When issues came up, we reached out to some folks at GCP and they seemed to be very prompt and attentive to our needs. They were always willing to help and provide additional details or recommendations or links to resources. This kind of support is very helpful as it allows us to navigate GKE with more confidence.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Built in support for auto scaling helps reduce operational overhead
    • Any application performance issues can be addressed quickly by allocating more resources while a proper fix can be planned and rolled out later
    • Using Google Cloud Run enables development of microservices which provides granular control for scaling critical services in the platform
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    Google
    • Reduced cloud computing costs.
    • Easier management of applications.
    • Extra time investment to learn how to setup applications in Google versus Amazon.
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