Google Compute Engine Reviews & Ratings 2024

Name: Compute Engine: The best home for your applications
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What is Google Compute Engine?

Google 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.

Recent Reviews

GCP Cloud's Google Compute Engine

9 out of 10

April 23, 2024

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We use GCP (Google Cloud Platform) for following purposes:
- VM instances for Linux as well as Windows
- GKE Cluster for hosting self …

A Robust and Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Solution. Improve Performance and Cost-Effectiveness of Our Applications.

10 out of 10

April 17, 2024

In our organization, we use Google Compute Engine (GCE) as central component of our cloud infrastructure. It provides us with scalable and …

Easier Way to Create Client Apps

9 out of 10

April 17, 2024

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Google Compute provides solutions to build dynamic websites and apps for clients without consuming much time. The tool has many features …

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8 out of 10

April 11, 2024

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Google Compute Engine (GCE) is the Infrastructure as a Service platform that we use for running workloads for different product/project …

Google Compute Engine || Alternate to AWS EC2

6 out of 10

April 01, 2024

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Compute engine is an offering of GCP, it provides scalable and flexible virtual machine resources for organisations. Business Problem it …

Highly Available and Cost Effective Cloud Provider

8 out of 10

March 30, 2024

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Google Compute Engine (GCE) to host and manage our applications and services in a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective manner. GCE helps …

GCE - Reliable and cost effective cloud infrastructure provider

10 out of 10

March 30, 2024

We use Google Compute Engine to host websites and APIs for small businesses. It lets us adjust resources based on how much traffic our …

Google Compute Engine is Amazing!

9 out of 10

March 20, 2024

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We use Google Compute Engine instances as our main servers to host our services and applications that are externally or internally used …

Impact of Google Compute Engine on the Organisational Infrastructure

8 out of 10

March 20, 2024

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We use it for cross platform software testing and its performance, earlier we were using VM Ware for the same but because Google Compute …

High productivity and good ROI with unique services

7 out of 10

March 20, 2024

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A scalable and flexible setup to quickly get our apps up and running without dropping tons of cash upfront, paying only for what we …

Google Compute Engine: Powering Business Growth and Efficiency!

7 out of 10

March 17, 2024

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In our company, we primarily use Google Compute Engine to create VM instances that would power our website our testing environment and as …

Google Cloud Engine - A powerful IAAS solution

8 out of 10

March 15, 2024

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We use Google Compute Engine to run jenkins. This jenkins jobs do various tasks.
- Building products
- Running integration test
- Running …

How Google Compute Engine helped us save money

8 out of 10

March 12, 2024

We use it for microservices that has burst processing demands - they require lots of processing power for very short periods of time, thus …

Google Cloud - your dev friendly alternative to AWS and Azure

8 out of 10

March 12, 2024

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Most development servers and build machines are migrating into Google Cloud Compute engine. This allows us to spin up/down resources on …

There are pros and cons...

7 out of 10

March 11, 2024

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My company uses Google Compute Engine to clean our "dirty" EDI files from the ports, terminals, and carriers that we work with for data …

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Popular Features

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Security controls (44)
7.0
70%
Operating system support (44)
6.9
69%
Pre-defined machine images (43)
5.6
56%
Pre-configured templates (42)
5.2
52%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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All different OS images are available with custom images as well
VM are excellent with great performance but some offer on commercials can be good.

Sagar Mehta

Consultant

Atgen Software Solutions LLP (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Flexibility. Provides a wide range of VM configurations and customization options.
Implementation and configuration may take time especially for the non-technical users.

Verified User

Professional in Professional Services

OutsourcingOffshoring Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing

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Preemptible Price - Predefined Memory

0.000892 / GB

Cloud

Hour

Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory

$0.001907 / GB

Cloud

Hour

One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory

$0.002669 / GB

Cloud

Hour

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Google Compute Engine Load Balancing, a quick introduction

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Computing with Google Compute Engine

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RouterOS CHR deployment in Google Compute Engine (GCE) demo

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Creating Custom Images for Google Compute Engine

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Hands on with Load Balancing on Google Compute Engine

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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

6.6

Avg 8.1

8.1
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
(26) Ratings
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
8.2
Dynamic scaling
(41) Ratings
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
7.7
Elastic load balancing
(37) Ratings
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
5.2
Pre-configured templates
(42) Ratings
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
3
Monitoring tools
(27) Ratings
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
5.6
Pre-defined machine images
(43) Ratings
Range of different server configurations available
6.9
Operating system support
(44) Ratings
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
7
Security controls
(44) Ratings
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
7.9
Automation
(2) Ratings
Automation of administrative tasks

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What is Google Compute Engine?

Virtual machines for any workload

Online VMs on high-performance, reliable cloud infrastructure offered on preset or custom machine types for web servers, databases, or AI.

Includes one e2-micro VM instance, up to 30 GB storage, and up to 1 GB of outbound data transfers free per month.

Preset and custom configurations

Prebuilt samples called Jump Start Solutions can be used to deploy an application in minutes, such as a dynamic website, load-balanced VM, Java application, three-tier web app, or ecommerce web app.

Offers predefined machine types, sizes, and configurations for any workload, from large enterprise applications, to modern workloads (like containers) or AI/ML projects that require GPUs and TPUs.

For more flexibility, a custom machine type between 1 and 96 vCPUs with up to 8.0 GB of memory per core can be created. Also offers many block storage options, from flexible Persistent Disk to high performance and low-latency Local SSD.

Industry-leading reliability

Compute Engine boasts strong single instance compute availability SLA: 99.95% availability for memory-optimized VMs and 99.9% for all other VM families. Offers live migration to maintain workload continuity during planned and unplanned events. When a VM goes down, Compute Engine performs a live migration to another host in the same zone.

Automations and recommendations for resource efficiency

VMs can be added automatically to handle peak load and replace underperforming instances with managed instance groups.

Resources can be manually adjusted using historical data with rightsizing recommendations, or capacity for planned demand spikes can be guaranteed with future reservations. All of Google's latest compute instances (C3, A3, H3) run on Titanium, a system of purpose-built microcontrollers and tiered scale-out offloads to improve infrastructure performance, life cycle management, and security.

Pricing and discounting

Google offers detailed pricing guidance for any VM type or configuration, and a pricing calculator to get a personalized estimate.

To save on batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads, Spot VMs are offered to reduce costs. Automatic discounts for sustained use are offered, or up to 70% off when signing up for committed use discounts.

Security controls and configurations

Encrypts data-in-use and while it’s being processed with Confidential VMs.

Defends against rootkits and bootkits with Shielded VMs.

Meets compliance standards for data residency, sovereignty, access, and encryption with Assured Workloads.

Google Compute Engine Features

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features

Supported: Dynamic scaling
Supported: Elastic load balancing
Supported: Pre-configured templates
Supported: Pre-defined machine images
Supported: Operating system support
Supported: Security controls

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.

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Google Compute Engine Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Google Compute Engine starts at $0.

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) are common alternatives for Google Compute Engine.

Reviewers rate Dynamic scaling highest, with a score of 8.2.

The most common users of Google Compute Engine are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

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October 11, 2017

My two years experience with Google Compute Engine

Sazzad Hossain Sharkar

Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.)

Akhaura Info Foundation (Education Management, 11-50 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Compute Engine is for maintaining our organizational department wise projects such as online training applications, online student registrations, blog posts, tutorials, etc.

We need to separate our organization projects in the various department because these applications are developed for solving several problems for filtered users. Google Compute Engine is used for hosting our online students' maintenance and other related tasks.

Pros and Cons

Google Compute Engine gives us easy ability to maintain the servers including live statistics about what is going on.
Easy single click to extend server system including network changing. Easy to clone servers between multiple regions.
Google Compute Engine has one-click installer (pre-built) applications including Bitnami launchpad.
Easy to integrate with cloud storage and backup periodically source codes and database to storage facility

Sometimes it is hard to remember the settings menus because these are separated into various sections.
Inviting external users to projects or maintainers are also a little complex
Server images have limited facilities. I mean some of the sections are disabled and had to be re-enabled on my own. Especially for Debian or Ubuntu images.
SMTP service is disabled by system and needs to be configured Postfix on my own.
UI is little complicated.

Likelihood to Recommend

If anyone, especially developers, whom are a newbie, they can quickly launch pre-built servers with desired applications easily. The projects come with the git repository that can rapidly be installed with a few single clicks.

If you have good experience, you can make a bridge to back up the project source codes or files to cloud storage quickly by doing some little functioning. There are manuals online for working with GCE

Non experienced Google Cloud Compute users will have some extra work when creating a new server. Must have to build it by oneself.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (8)

91.25%

9.1

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime: 100%
10.0
Dynamic scaling: 80%
8.0
Elastic load balancing: 80%
8.0
Pre-configured templates: 100%
10.0
Monitoring tools: 90%
9.0
Pre-defined machine images: 100%
10.0
Operating system support: 90%
9.0
Security controls: 90%
9.0

Return on Investment

Google Compute Engine's startup prices are quite reasonable to get started.
Started with $300 free credits that help to sustain the business structure.
Our primary servers hosted at our nearest locations that help to reduce time to load. Also getting good feedback from users server speed is overall because of closest location.

Alternatives Considered

Digital Ocean

Pricing scale is good. Google Cloud Compute provides additional facilities free of cost (limited storage). Received one year free credits to get started. Nearest regions are available. Others amenities including free repository service available. UI is modern and fast to load. Google is the most significant company right now. So we have trust and satisfaction of use.