Infrastructure as a Service with high availability at lower cost
February 23, 2026

Infrastructure as a Service with high availability at lower cost

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

We use Google Compute Engine (GCE) as an Infrastructure as a Service to run some medium-scale workloads of the application. We also use it to run web servers for internal usage. It is very convenient to create, deploy and scale instances based on the demand and it integrates very well with other cloud services.

Pros

  • zero downtime maintenance
  • great global load balancing
  • automatic discounts

Cons

  • very complex pricing
  • learning curve
  • difficult user interface (lot of options)
  • positive: reduced costs + budget alerts
  • negative: initial migration because the app was not optimized for the cloud
Speed in terms of page load and boot time. They offer a very low latency which is good compared to their main competitors. An instance boots in less than 30 seconds. In overall, it tends to be faster.
They offer almost 100% of availability as SLA for multiple zones. It automatically restarts the instance when there is an underlaying hardware failure. In overall, there is no downside for their availability.
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Microsoft Azure
Rather than saying GCE is better. I would say that depends on the business and technical requirements it might fit better than others. There is no silver bullet.

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

pros:
- legacy migrations (can replicate the exact OS)
- custom machine types

cons:
- small team with limited dev-ops people
- simple event-driven tasks

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.0
Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
9
Pre-defined machine images
9
Operating system support
8
Security controls
9

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