Google Cloud Run vs. IBM Cloud Code Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Run
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Google 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
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 9.6 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A
Pricing
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Considered Both Products
Google Cloud Run
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 …
Chose Google Cloud Run
Clear separation between container and execution layer.
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.
Chose Google Cloud Run
DigitalOcean auto scale droplets is still in early stages and is not on par with Google Cloud Run.

It is easy to develop and test Google Cloud Run applications compared to other available alternatives.
Chose Google Cloud Run
AWS Lambda supports code zip package, enabling lower cold start time. Also, AWS Lambda pricing is much simpler, easier to understand.

Chose Google Cloud Run
For us, Google Cloud Run is a complement to Google Tag Manager to enable server-side data collection.
Chose Google Cloud Run
The Goolge docs for their products as well as the UI is a lot nicer than AWS or Azure and in general I found it much easy to work with. We selected Google mainly because of startup credits and the support offered but can confidently say we would choose them again without that …
Chose Google Cloud Run
Most of our existing serverless services are deployed on Google to it was a natural choice. With the new artifact registry, its very easy to deploy. With git flows, its now even easier to update the deployment just with a commit to the main branch. The initial trial period is …
Chose Google Cloud Run
The other two obvious cloud providers have direct alternatives: AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. Both were also evaluated briefly (only to validate that they exist); however, the organization had settled on shifting to Google for business reasons, and therefore, the comparison …
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.
Chose Google Cloud Run
Flexibility of features snd customzing options tha optimized the large process and make it on the the go to reuse the same process in multiple deployments ot rollouts
Chose Google Cloud Run
Cloud Run is just so much easier and straightforward to work with than EC2 when it comes to getting a Docker image up and running and serving requests.
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
During software selection is always good to give different weight to each parameter of evaluation. Usually cost and performances are always having higher weight, but it's good not forget about support and integration. A scenario with a great tool, impossible to integrate in the …
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
IBM Cloud Satellite is distributed cloud platform while IBM Code Engine is serverless. They both has capabilities that are non overlapping and run on IKS/K8S.
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
Code enigine is much easier to understand.
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
it is as good as them
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data …
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
If IBM wants to get ahead, it needs to add AI and make it seamless on the project configuration, real time chat with AI will help developers to increase speed and have less problems integrating the code into their business logic. There's no marketing using influencers, YT code …
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
Having only some hands-on with the other services, The cloud engine is considerably simpler to operate, with a very clear interface and management. Each application can be easily configured and altered without needing to know anything about different subscription tiers or the …
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
Cloud engine is much easier to use, and gives a very clear interface and control. Each application can be configured differently with ease and changed without having to know anything about different subscription levels or inner workings of the system. Just change the resource …
Features
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Run
7.3
Ratings
11% below category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
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Security and Isolation8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Orchestration7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Cluster Management6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Management2.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Run
-
Ratings
IBM Cloud Code Engine
6.6
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16% below category average
Scalability00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
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Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.8 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.1 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.1 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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6.8
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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8.2
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Usability
7.8
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6.2
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Availability
8.0
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Performance
8.0
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Implementation Rating
8.0
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Configurability
8.0
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Product Scalability
8.0
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Looking for a reasonably priced and dependable cloud solution, I suggest IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to everyone. For businesses needing excellent uptime and performance free from the trouble of running actual servers, it's fantastic. However, it may not be the best choice if you need hands on support for server configurations.
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Pros
  • Real-time autoscaling. Escalamento automático em tempo real
  • Simplified Continuous Deployment. Implantação contínua simplificada
  • Running tasks in the background. Execução de tarefas em segundo plano
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  • Server-less platform that is automatically managed
  • Pay per use - scale to zero results in an extremely cheap total cost of ownership.
  • There is no need for you to set the size, deploy, or scale container clusters yourself.
  • Auto scaling is always helpful and easy to use.
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Cons
  • Limited deployment strategies. Traffic splitting exists, but it's basic. Rollback depends on manual intervention.
  • Fragile local debugging and development. The local environment never 100% mirrors Cloud Run. Debug removal is nonexistent.
  • Lack of more flexible non-HTTP jobs and workloads. No support for: Advanced Cron,
  • Communication between jobs
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  • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
  • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
  • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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Usability
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.
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The product Cloud features setting was not that tricky, and the functions are easy to manipulate and provide quality Cloud services. The data connectivity through IBM Cloud Code Engine is very simple and the transfer speed is very impressive. A/B Testing using IBM Cloud Code Engine is effective performed and data security is on top.
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Reliability and Availability
Not seen any major issues when we run applications its good
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Performance
Initially we felt slow but slowly it picked up and easy to manage
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Implementation Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
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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Having only some hands-on with the other services, The cloud engine is considerably simpler to operate, with a very clear interface and management. Each application can be easily configured and altered without needing to know anything about different subscription tiers or the system's inner workings. But in the case of Lambda, Depending on the situation, Code Engine will fetch your source code and generate the container image. Code Engine supports both Dockerfile and the Cloud-Native Build bundle, which is preferable. It is possible to create applications that send messages based on events.
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Scalability
It has good auto scale feature and reliable also
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Return on Investment
  • It has saved us some costs since we now do not require a live server and have moved to a serverless workflow for these services
  • Breaking changes do not affect the entire application now that we have separated our concerns using a serverless service
  • Much easier to debug since we can now isolate our services and reduce the search space for finding/fixing bugs
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  • IBM maintains the same high degree of security that has been essential for its operations since the dawn of the computing market while streamlining data governance in a real cloud model as a dependable business partner for organizations all across the globe.
  • Apart from providing the instruments needed for efficient work the user friendly interface helps non-IT professionals to understand the system in a limited period of time.
  • The latest IBM Cloud Code Engine design is based on an innovative approach to buying and bundling of products.
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