Google Compute Engine - Reliable and salable
October 07, 2025

Google Compute Engine - Reliable and salable

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

In our organization we use Google Compute Engine to host our multiple internal applications. It helped to solve the infra scalability, resource management, optimizing operational cost.

Pros

  • Low latency Network
  • Flexible billing option
  • VM customization
  • Auto scaling

Cons

  • Third party compatibility
  • Support documentations should be simple
  • VM is slow during startup
  • Hybrid cloud setup is complex
  • Reduced operational cost
  • Increased deployment efficiency
  • Eliminated on prim dependency
  • Scalability
Google Compute Engine deliver consistence performance on our web applications and page gets loads quickly. Simple reports gets complete rapidly while complex may takes additional time. Depending on the application occasionally VM slows down.
We can see Google Compute Engine provide high availability with reliable up time. As it has multiple zone and regional redudancey it helps service stays online. While occasional maintenance occurs but it hasn't impacted our application and business.
Compare to AWS and Azure we feel Google Compute Engine provided simple pricing model and competitive discounts.

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

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Azure Virtual Machines
Google Compute Engine is well suited to host our web application which required flexible memory and CPU scaling. Also when we use for batch processing , when task completes VMs automatically scales down using dynamic scaling feature.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
7.8
Dynamic scaling
8
Elastic load balancing
9
Pre-configured templates
6
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
7
Security controls
9

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