Driving Efficiency in the Cloud.
September 23, 2024

Driving Efficiency in the Cloud.

Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

We use Google Compute Engine to Host our Backend Services. Our Product is an AI-driven Saas Platform (GIDE.AI) that helps high school students track their academic progress, activities, and interests. Help them prepare for entrance
exams and guide them to build a scholarship-worthy profile. A. With minimal human intervention, I am a platform that can counsel parents and students in choosing the right program, university, and career. For Universities, schools, and other education organizations, it offers self-serve subscription-based services to track their students, engage & network with students for admissions, counseling support, tests & quizzes, career interest, profile building, etc. The Google compute engines help us host various microservices.

Pros

  • Rule-based Autoscaling.
  • It offers a combination of CPU, RAM, and H/W per workload.

Cons

  • Improved documentation.
  • Allow autoscaling based on App performance.
  • Quick deployment. Increase in DevOps Productivity.
  • With K8 engines, optimal utilization of resources. Saves cost.
It offers the same best-in-class services as other providers like AWS or Azure. However, I am impressed by the super simple setup of Kubernetes engine configurations, which leads to overall service performance and cost savings.
Highly available, on-demand scalable, and fault-tolerant. Once, we faced an issue where the server crashed, and a new server was spawned almost instantaneously.
Comparabale to AWS EC2. We selected GCE because of the out-of-the-box K8 engine setup. On AWS, I find it a bit tedious.

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

It is an excellent choice for microservice architecture deployments using GCP's Kubernetes K8 engines. It comes out of the box, and with a few configurations, you can get microservices up and working. I highly recommend it.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.5
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
9
Pre-defined machine images
9
Operating system support
10
Security controls
9

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