GCE - your cloud VM option on GCP.
September 23, 2024

GCE - your cloud VM option on GCP.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

Well, Google Compute Engine is basically Google's response to AWS EC2 or Azure VMs. It's a cloud VM service that provides you with VMs on demand, with various types and capabilities for your needs. Of course, it's flexible in terms of how many resources you want and whether you want auto-scaling or not. Also, enterprise features like IAM and VPC are supported.

Pros

  • Flexible pricing with various options for discounted rates.
  • Lots of customizations regarding machine capacity, including creating your mix.
  • Strong ML/AI support.

Cons

  • Not as popular as AWS EC2, even less than Azure VMs.
  • There is not much to differentiate itself from other offers.
  • It's native to GCP & has straightforward integration with other GCP services.
  • Teams that are familiar with GCP can get productive with GCE very quickly.
Not much to say about this; standard cloud VM service is pretty comparable to AWS EC2 & Azure VM.
My company uses all three big cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Of those, I have only witnessed a partial Azure outage. In fact, I would trust GCP to have a pretty robust infrastructure just because it's by Google.
The obvious and natural alternatives to GCE are AWS EC2 and Azure VMs. I would say all three are more similar than not. Picking one will most likely depend on what platform you're on already, where your running services are, and which one is more familiar to your team.

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

I would only pick Google Compute Engine if I already used other GCP services. In my company, some projects use GCP, so GCE is the natural choice for those. However, the same can be said for projects on AWS/Azure. When you need a VM, it's usually much simpler to just use the service on the platform that you're already using.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.2
Dynamic scaling
8
Elastic load balancing
8
Pre-configured templates
9
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
8
Security controls
8

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