TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Compute Engine

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product from Google Cloud. It provides virtual machines with carbon-neutral infrastructure which run on the same data centers that Google itself uses.

    $0

    per month GB

    OVHcloud Public Cloud

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOVHcloud Public Cloud offers users a large number of cloud solutions that are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. OVH states their infrastructure is set up in a simple way to enable businesses to harness the flexibility of on-demand resources to scale up from small projects to large-scale deployments.

    $0.05

    per hour

    Pricing
    Google Compute EngineOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Preemptible Price - Predefined Memory
    0.000892 / GB
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.001907 / GB
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.002669 / GB
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined Memory
    $0.004237 / GB
    Hour
    Preemptible Price - Predefined vCPUs
    0.006655 / vCPU
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.014225 / CPU
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.019915 / vCPU
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.031611 / vCPU
    Hour
    Discovery
    $0.01
    Hour
    General Purpose
    $0.08
    Hour
    Compute Optimized
    $0.12
    Hour
    Memory Optimized
    $0.12
    Hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Compute EngineOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices vary according to region (i.e US central, east, & west time zones). Google Compute Engine also offers a discounted rate for a 1 & 3 year commitment.Exact pricing depends on operating system (Windows/Linux), memory and storage size and network speed.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Google Compute EngineOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    OVHcloud
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Google Compute EngineOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Compute Engine and OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Feature
    Google Compute Engine
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    3% below category average
    OVHcloud Public Cloud
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.125 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling7.861 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.354 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.463 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Monitoring tools3.026 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.465 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Operating system support8.366 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Security controls9.164 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Automation7.92 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google Compute EngineOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Google Compute EngineOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (66 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Compute EngineOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    You can use Google Cloud Compute Engine as an option to configure your Gitlab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps self-hosted runners. This allows full control and management of your runners rather than using the default runners, which you cannot manage. Additionally, they can be used as a workspace, which you can provide to the employees, where they can test their workloads or use them as a local host and then deploy to the actual production-grade instance.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    For demo uploads or for production uploads of companies from different sectors looking for a "general computing" cloud solution, I think that OVH can be a good provider. However, for more delicate or advanced loads or for specific solutions of, for example, AI, OVH has a wide margin for improvement.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Google
    • Scaling - whether it's traffic spikes or just steady growth, Google Compute Engine's auto-scaling makes sure we've got the compute power we need without any manual juggling acts
    • Load balancing - Keeping things smooth with that load balancing across multiple VMs, so our users don't have to deal with slow load times or downtime even when things get crazy busy
    • Customizability - Mix and match configs for CPU, RAM, storage and whatnot to suit our specific app needs
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    • Price
    • Quality hardware
    • Quality network
    • Administrative tools
    • Range of products
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Google
    • Built-in monitoring via Stackdriver is quite expensive for what it provides.
    • Initially provided quotas (ie. max compute units one can use) are very low and it took several requests to get an appropriate amount.
    • Support on GCE is limited to their knowledge base and forums. For more hands-on support provided by Google, you must pay for their Premium services.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    • Technical support
    • Account support
    • Billing support
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    Its pretty good, easy and good performance. Also, interface is very good for starters compared to competitors. Infra as Code (IaC) using Terraform even added easiness for creation, management and deletion of compute Virtual Machines (VM). Overall, very good and very easy cloud based compute platform which simplified infrastructure, very much recommend.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    Having interacted with several cloud services, GCE stands out to me as more usable than most. The naming and locating of features is a little more intuitive than most I've interacted with, and hinting is also quite helpful. Getting staff up to speed has proven to be overall less painful than others.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    Google Compute Engine works well for cloud project with lesser geographical audience. It sometimes gives error while everything is set up perfectly. We also keep on check any updates available because that's one reason of site getting down. Google Compute Engine is ultimately a top solution to build an app and publish it online within a few minutes
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Google
    It works great all the time except for occasional issues, but overall, I am very happy with the performance. It delivers on the promise it makes and as per the SLAs provided. Networking is great with a premium network, and AZs are also widespread across geographies. Overall, it is a great infra item to have, which you can scale as you want.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Google
    • The documentation needs to be better for intermediate users - There are first steps that one can easily follow, but after that, the documentation is often spotty or not in a form where one can follow the steps and accomplish the task. Also, the documentation and the product often go out of sync, where the commands from the documentation do not work with the current version of the product.
    • Google support was great and their presence on site was very helpful in dealing with various issues.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Compute Engine provides a one stop solution for all the complex features and the UI is better than Amazon's EC2 and Azure Machine Learning for ease of usability. It's always good to have an eco-system of products from Google as it's one of the most used search engine and IoT services provider, which helps with ease of integration and updates in the future.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    Most notably OVHcloud [Public Cloud] has dedicated servers which are a different breed of product than Linode's flagship VPS servers, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that OVHcloud [Public Cloud] can provide a fully-dedicated server at a lower price point than Linode's virtual server. Even worse than that is that with a dedicated server from [OVHcloud Public Cloud] there is zero chance of "cpu theft" (aka, noisy neighbor) which is a very real problem at Linode (we would require multiple migrations every year for servers hosted at Linode that were experiencing cpu theft). In addition to the improvement in quality for network/hardware at OVHcloud [Public Cloud] with their dedicated server offering, their VPS servers are also highly competitive against Linode's VPS servers - in the 2 years we've used OVHcloud [Public Cloud] VPS's we've had zero downtime associated with OVH actions such as host-node reboots or cpu theft or host node upgrades, a stark difference compared to Linode which regularly experiences those types of downtimes and many more on a very regular basis.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Scalability
    Google
    It works really well with other Google Cloud services, making it easy to build scalable solutions across different teams and locations.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • With Google Compute we don't have the overhead of managing our own data centers reducing costs and reducing the staff needed to manage systems.
    • As I said earlier, Google's costs are ~1/2 of AWS, so we are able to see a ROI much faster.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OVHcloud
    • Cost of virtual servers was reduced by 20% versus other VPS/Cloud providers.
    • Cost of dedicated servers was reduced by 50% versus other dedicated server providers.
    • Network speeds decreased considerably versus other providers.
    • Network quotas improved considerably versus other providers (unlimited at OVH).
    • Uptime has improved considerably which has improved client reputation.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    Google Compute Engine Screenshots

    Screenshot of How to choose the right VM
With thousands of applications, each with different requirements, which VM is right for you?Screenshot of documentation, guides, and reference architectures
Migration Center is Google Cloud's unified migration platform with features like cloud spend estimation, asset discovery, and a variety of tooling for different migration scenarios.

    OVHcloud Public Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of the public cloud management interfaceScreenshot of job logsScreenshot of building a land zoneScreenshot of instance creation