One of the best virtual machine infrastructure provider out there.
February 03, 2025

One of the best virtual machine infrastructure provider out there.

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

We host all our VMs on Google Compute Engine. Our Kubernetes cluster is also dependent upon the nodes created on the Google Compute Engine. We have our backend services running directly on the VMs and on the Kubernetes cluster on the VMs. It also gives us a view of how the VMs are performing and if we need to scale them up.

Pros

  • It provides us with managed VMs on the go that takes only a couple of minute to come up.
  • It helps us understand the performance metrics of the VMs (like CPU utilization, Memory utilization) which helps us in deciding if we need to scale up.
  • It gives us an option to create, destroy and even scale up or scale down VMs whenever necessary.

Cons

  • Pricing of the Google Compute Engine can be more transparent. Currently CPU and memory is charged separately and its difficult to understand VM specific pricing in the billing section.
  • Using GPUs in the Google Compute Engine can be made more easy.
  • Provide an instance that can auto scale based on certain performance rules
  • Since we use Google Compute Engine, we don't have to maintain our own physical servers. This helps us better manage our personnels time by offloading infrastructure needs to GCP.
  • Easy access to monitoring and performance metrics saves a lot of time while figuring out issues with our infrastructure or services.
  • It helps us provide suggestions on when to scale down certain instances depending on resource utilization of the VM
Google Compute Engine's performance is appropriate and is dependent on the amount of resources you allocate to your VMs. Most of our services that run on Google Compute Engine work fine with the e2-medium instances and we rarely need to scale up to a bigger instance. Page load times are fine.
We have almost never faced an issue where the Google Compute Engine was unavailable in the region where we have our VMs. Google Compute Engine provides us with transparency of when the VMs are up on their status page. It also provides us with a history of incidents if needed on the status page.
We have tried using DigitalOcean Droplets for some of our minor and non critical VMs. In our experience, Google Compute Engine fares well in comparison the DigitalOcean Droplets as they provide better availability, better support and in general, a better experience.

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

Google Compute Engine is well suited for hosting VMs and running your applications on these VMs. They are pretty stable and we've rarely encountered issues with the VMs. However, it might not be appropriate if you don't have a continuously running service and you might want to explore GCP cloud run.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.8
Pre-configured templates
8
Pre-defined machine images
9
Operating system support
9
Security controls
9

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