Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine
Google Cloud Compute Engine is used by the organization to do automated advanced analytics for clients across the world. The software addresses two important aspects of our business: first, it runs in the background and with speed and accuracy that works well for the analyst as well as others; second, the software runs in the cloud, which makes analyzing the data generally easier.
- Google Cloud Compute Engine does a good job at crunching numbers.
- Google Cloud Compute Engine is great at always being available, and I have yet to find any latency.
- Google Cloud Compute Engine is great for doing advanced analytics (machine learning) without needing the software on my desktop.
- Google Compute Engine is in the cloud, which means that it is probably less secure than on-premise options. With that said, I have never had a problem.
- Google Compute Engine seems fine at running machine learning models, but is in no way as good as competing tools that are not run in the cloud.
- Google Compute Engine is less user friendly than AWS or Azure, at least that's my experience.
- Google Compute Engine has had a positive return on investment in that it has expanded the offerings of the business, and clients seem to like the shift towards Google services.
- Google Cloud Compute Engine was a poor return on investment at first because it required a good deal of effort to figure things out.
- Google Cloud Compute Engine is a positive return on investment by allowing multiple users to work on the same project in the cloud.
Google was the third entry into the world of cloud service providers (at least from what I can tell). It looks like they took what Azure and AWS does well, and attempted to improve upon them. To me, they've done ok at this. It all seems to depend on which service you're used to using.