Item: Google Compute Engine
Rating: 8
Author: Manthan Dhola

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Compute Engine (GCE) to host and manage our applications and services in a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective manner. GCE helps us address business challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness. Our use case for GCE includes hosting web applications, running batch processing jobs, supporting machine learning tasks, and more, contributing to our organization's agility and innovation in the cloud.

Pros and Cons

Scalability and Flexibility - during peak hours or sudden spikes in traffic to our website, GCE automatically provisions additional virtual machine instances to handle the increased load.
Global Network Infrastructure - we can deploy multi-region architectures with ease, distributing workloads across multiple regions for improved redundancy and performance.
Advanced Security Features - encryption at rest and in transit, identity and access management (IAM) controls, network firewalls, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection

Costing - more visibility over how costing is calculated
More pre-configured templates like AWS has cloudformation
Advanced Monitoring Tools are needed

Return on Investment

Improved application performance
Easy troubleshooting of the applications and servers
Great Disaster Recovery Plans and methods
Highly scalable and reliable

Performance

it supports integrations with almost all the Google services and also increases the performance of the website and ecommerce applications. While performance can vary based on factors like workload characteristics, GCE is generally regarded as a high-performance cloud computing platform.

Reliability and Availability

Google invests heavily in ensuring the reliability and resilience of its cloud services, including GCE, by employing redundant systems, proactive monitoring, and automated failover mechanisms to mitigate potential issues.
I would highly recommend GCE if there is a need of availability. There is great support also available with the urgency level

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service, Azure Virtual Machines and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

the main reason of choosing GCE is availability and user friendly UI with a very good documentation and API explanations. Great visibility over the infra and security.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Azure Virtual Machines

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited -Batch Processing and Data Analytics, Web Application Hosting, Containerized Workloads, high performance computing
Unsuited - low traffic websites, static websites, legacy applications, small scale web apps

Highly Available and Cost Effective Cloud Provider

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine