Great tool with some caveats
March 09, 2026

Great tool with some caveats

Marcos Vinícius Costa de Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

We use Google Compute Engine to run virtual machines that host our internal applications. As we don't have on-prem servers, we need a cloud structure to host our developed applications and the open source ones. We basically use cloud VMs and some their underlying network infra structure, leveraging the IAM policies to adequately provide access to our team members.

Pros

  • Reliable virtual machines
  • Low network latencies
  • committed use discounts

Cons

  • Some random network disconnections
  • Never could get to configure the machine monitoring properly
  • It has too many options in different menus, feels somewhat overwhelming
  • GCE made our company's opensource stack be possible, significantly reducing other SaaS costs
  • Optimized cloud costs with the committed discounts
  • Allowed us to take control of the scale of each application without impacting user experience and improved user satisfaction
Google Compute Engine usually delivers good and predictable performance for our self-hosted stack of applications. However, when running n8n heavy workflows, even with a tunned instance configuration in docker, performance usually peaks usually due to memory usage. We often need to upgrade memory when we have heavier data processing and workflows. Other than that, in a normal usage, we don't really have any problems
I couldn't give a perfect score here because this is one of our pain points with GCE. We occasionally experience some of our instances becoming unresponsive or not responding to health checks. These are somewhat rare incidents, but when they happen, causes disruption for our company's employees and I believe this would be a serious issue in production at scale in a external application.

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 think Google cloud is well suited for both startups, medium enterprises and big corps, because of its pay-per-use pricing model, with a generous initials free credits program. It ranges from both simple to heavy users, with a robust solution for the entire management of all parts of a VM, including disks, OS, and the hardware itself, allowing to scale the size with ease. The only downside I see, it's because, sometimes, our users experience some error 500 due to the machine restarting without notice.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
Not Rated
Pre-configured templates
10
Pre-defined machine images
10
Operating system support
10
Security controls
8

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