Google Compute Engine || Alternate to AWS EC2
April 01, 2024

Google Compute Engine || Alternate to AWS EC2

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

Compute engine is an offering of GCP, it provides scalable and flexible virtual machine resources for organisations. Business Problem it addresses: Cost-Effectiveness Scalability Performance.

Google Compute Engine provides a high level of customization, flexibility, & scalability in contrast to this, storage is also a major role that it plays. Performance and Security are the Real Factors to go for the GCP Compute Engine




  • Web and Application Hosting
  • High Performance Computing
  • Security, One can rely on Security related things if we are preferring Compute Engine.
  • Ease of Use
  • Pricing
  • Configuring Network & Setting up of VPC and all can be Improved.
  • Decision Making
  • Time Value
  • Improved Performance
It's good in terms of Performance, as compared to other VMs or Compute Engine Services by other providers. Google Compute Engine integrates seamlessly with other Google Cloud Platform services, allowing users to leverage a wide range of tools and services without significant performance degradation.
It provides high scalability and multi-zone availability.

Reliability and Redundancy these are the keypoints that Compute engine is being designed by GCP
I prefer the Compute Engine Over these as it provides us with Better Scalability, Performance, and Reliability Security-related Issues don't arise with the Compute Engine, but yes, in terms of accessing or running, it can be improved a bit as compared to EC2 offered by AWS.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Google Compute Engine go as expected?

No

Would you buy Google Compute Engine again?

Yes

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Azure Virtual Machines
I will recommend the Compute Engine if we are concerned of Security, Flexibility and Scalabilty but, It can be improved a bit more in terms of Ease of Usage as compared to AWS EC2 or Azure VM.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Dynamic scaling
7
Elastic load balancing
6
Pre-configured templates
6
Pre-defined machine images
5
Operating system support
5
Security controls
8