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

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)
Score 6.3 out of 10
N/A
CenturyLink 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)
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Google 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
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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
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Best Alternatives
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
Vultr
Vultr
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10

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Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
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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
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ScreenShots

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