Google Compute Engine Review
July 29, 2025

Google Compute Engine Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is an Infrastructure as a service component of GCP. We are able to deploy and downsize any virtual service using this service. Our organization is transitioning from on prem to cloud and this service enables us to save cost on both capex and open. We are able to deploy multiple instances of virtual servers when the demand is high and we can downsize when the demand is low. The pay as you go model has been very beneficial during the budget excercise to save additional cost

Pros

  • Hosting applications or web servers
  • Multiple instances of virtual servers can be spun up
  • Pre prod environment is set up for all the testing before it's scheduled on prod servers.

Cons

  • The GCP in general is a little complicated cloud service provider thn AWS/Azure
  • Low availability on south america locations
  • On prem servers have been decommissioned which has saved a lot of money
  • The infrastructure support is provided by Google which has reduced our operational cost
  • The security has multiple layers and all the data is 100% secured
The option of scalability helps to upsize or downsize the virtual servers running the we application as per demand.
The only downsize I see as of now is the low availability in the south America location , because of this our users in South America face a little latency issues compared to other regions.
The service is available vastly except for few South America region.
Adding up data centres in South America will resolve this issue.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Google Compute Engine again?

Yes

Google Compute Engine can be used to install web servers because of the payment you as you go model and the availability of sizing up or down as per the demand. There is option to install either Linux or windows operating systems. We can manage the resources via phone as well using the GCP application.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.8
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
8
Pre-configured templates
8
Pre-defined machine images
7
Operating system support
10
Security controls
10

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