GCE: A reasonable choice of deploying scalable applications
May 01, 2021
GCE: A reasonable choice of deploying scalable applications
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine is being used across the company for all of the server needs. It lets us create VMs with a variety of customizable options. It does give us a predefined set of VMs that can be directly used based on needs. It also helps us to reduce the cost by using the right size of VMs.
- It's very easy to spin up a VM from the console. We can say the console is very user-friendly.
- Set of predefined VMs ready to be used for different needs.
- Options of preemptible VMs which help reduce the considerable amount of cost.
- Spin up takes some time and that's where containers come into the picture.
- Setting up security for created VMs is still messy and it can be simpler.
- It helps us deploying the services faster.
- Better monitoring and alerting to monitor the systems.
- Cost reduction with VMs usage recommendations.
- Google App Engine
Google App Engine is a platform as a service where everything is taken care of by Google and we just need to write the code and deploy it onto it.
But we hardly have much control over the VMs and the OS offering is not much. We had a limited amount of OS version supported. Auto-scalability was also one of the reason.
We got rid of all the problems once we made a decision to use the GCE VMs
But we hardly have much control over the VMs and the OS offering is not much. We had a limited amount of OS version supported. Auto-scalability was also one of the reason.
We got rid of all the problems once we made a decision to use the GCE VMs
Do you think Google Compute Engine delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Google Compute Engine's feature set?
Yes
Did Google Compute Engine live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Google Compute Engine go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Google Compute Engine again?
Yes