GCE - the right compute you need for your workloads!
September 21, 2024

GCE - the right compute you need for your workloads!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

Google Cloud compute engine (GCE) is the backbone of all Google Cloud for us. Anything you plan to do needs computing, and GCE works well with all the offerings of different CPU, RAM, and GPU configurations for various workloads. We use GCE directly for stateful services while it is used under the hood for k8s clusters and other services.

Pros

  • Per sec pricing.
  • Configuration in terms of CPU and RAM requirements.
  • Uptime
  • Ease of creation.

Cons

  • Specific metrics from the machine without the installation of an agent.
  • Error reporting for scenarios where the machine goes down without any maintenance announced.
  • Shared CPU machine performance.
  • Networking cost.
  • With higher uptime, the time spent on managing infra has decreased.
  • Ease of scaling Disk sizes in running machines helps slowly increase the cost as the business scales compared to pre-provisioning.
  • Faster upgrades to higher configs and creating clusters that can scale with increased workloads.
It works great all the time except for occasional issues, but overall, I am very happy with the performance. It delivers on the promise it makes and as per the SLAs provided. Networking is great with a premium network, and AZs are also widespread across geographies. Overall, it is a great infra item to have, which you can scale as you want.
Very few unplanned outages have been observed, and Google Cloud plans well for any upcoming activities. Sufficient time is given to work around the end-of-life stuff.
The Google Cloud computing engine is fair at the top because it bills customers, automatic discounting for extended use, and how fast it can be turned on. We enjoy things around setting it up very easily via APIs and CLI commands, and with the always-on recommendations from Google Cloud in terms of CPU and RAM usage, we can also optimize cost well.

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

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), DigitalOcean Droplets
It is excellent if you have any workloads that need raw computing or plan to have any state-full services running in your environment like DBs (for which you don't want to use Managed services), cache, etc. It also gives you complete control over which versions of software, OS, etc., you need, and thus, you can build anything and deploy it on GCE.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.2
Dynamic scaling
9
Pre-configured templates
9
Pre-defined machine images
10
Operating system support
10
Security controls
8

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