Google Cloud Platform Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10

Score

8.8 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

Google Cloud Platform is great for connected data

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 19, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to store and access data in the cloud. This includes bucket based storage in GCS buckets, but also queried data from BigQuery in the cloud. This enables easy sharing of data across projects. Additionally we use Google Cloud Platform for tracking logs of jobs running and executing in the cloud to debug failed runs.

Pros

Handles Permissions for Logging In
Makes querying BigQuery easy
Enables access and management of buckets

Cons

The Logs Explorer is quite hard to dig into and find logs of interest
BigQuery transparency for BigLake vs External tables isn't the best
Google Group management for permissions can get hairy.

Likelihood to Recommend

When most of our stuff is in Google Cloud Platform, it works great to integrate and cross/share data that is all in Google Cloud Platform or BigQuery. It has simplified things from a permissions perspective as well. I'd say it is less appropriate when trying to test something quickly locally, or when half your stuff is in AWS or another provider.

Verified User

Employee (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Google Cloud Platform Recommendation

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 13, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for cloud storage across our IT and Marketing teams at the University I work at. It is incredibly easy to set up, and ridiculously affordable. We use it as a connection tool from GA4 primarily to back up data since we don't have in house data storage capacity.

Pros

Easy to set up
Affordable use of the tool
Easy to access billing
Reliable service

Cons

Giving me a clearer sense of additional ways we could be using the service
Helping marketers better understand the use cases
Having invoices ready on the first day of the month would be ideal.

Likelihood to Recommend

For how it helps our team with data storage and connecting to GA4 as a backup option, and the incredibly low cost for us to use it and reliably back up our data, I would highly recommend using this tool for all of your cloud storage needs. It's easy to use and their customer service is always responsive and easy to get a hold of.

Katie Wurdack

Senior Marketing Manager in Marketing at Colorado State University Online (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Expected and Delivered things over GCP.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Cloud for many things, like running our apps, keeping data, and a few neat things with Machine Learning. It lets us not think about servers and iterate on building faster. It scales well under high traffic without breaking a sweat. BigQuery is suitable for scanning through multiple terabytes of data quickly. It is also convenient for team projects, as everything is so centralized. It simplifies things and allows us to go faster without falling down tech rabbit holes.

Pros

First, scalability is just smooth. You launch something small, and suddenly, traffic spikes? Cp. The cloud handles it without having to panic or touch anything. Auto-scaling on the compute engine or GKE is a lifesaver.
Cloud functions is also good for just write a bit of code and it runs with.
Even when we need it. No server setup and provisioning. Suitable for automating small backend tasks.

Cons

The UI is so confusing. The console is good, but it is like a maze. There are too many menus and settings, and things do not work as expected. It takes time to get friendly, and it is not friendly for new users.
Support experience: Sometimes, you get a great engineer, but other times, it's very difficult to talk with them as they are unable to respond as expected and solve issues late.
Region and zone are issues, as not all services are available in all regions, which is lacking when deploying something in the same region or zone.

Likelihood to Recommend

We used it to build a real-time analytics dashboard with BigQuery, and it worked very well, with super-fast processing and output to the dashboard, as well as no server management. However, when we tried using cloud functions for a live chat feature, the cold start delays failed and made it feel too slow for real-time use. So, it’s lacking for this.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Great place and good price to put your infrastructure/system

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 19, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization choose Google Cloud Platform to place almost the infrastructure in it because it is the most cheaper than other Cloud Providers. As SRE engineer, my team is in charge of managing all the cloud infrastructure. The scope of using Google Cloud Platform is quiet board inluding: backend and web hosting, data storage, data analytic, machine learning. I managed all of these and also monitor and optimize the cost of them.

Pros

Google Cloud Platform provide the autoscale workload when the workload need to scale up or down
Great pay-as-you-go pricing model and dashboard report of pricing that help user monitor and optimize the cost
Using simpler than other cloud provider

Cons

I think Google Cloud Platform can emphasis more on customer support

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Cloud Platform is well suited for every project or company that need an infrastructure that is easy to use and manage and also the good price

Ha Do Ngoc

SRE in Engineering at OneMount (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience