They moved to GCP from AWS after 7 years and love it, finding setup much easier, with Cloud Run easier than Kubernetes.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
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They spent a month failing to get a Kubernetes networking setup working on AWS EKS, then had it working the same day on GKE, which uses eBPF.
They find GCP logging painless with one central place for logs, prefer its folders and projects structure over AWS accounts, and say GKE is far ahead of EKS.
They find Google App Engine easier to set up and more secure than AWS offerings, and nearly free for small jobs.
They moved personal projects from AWS to GCP after constantly troubleshooting AWS. They set up a CI/CD pipeline a year ago and have not touched it since, finding GCP easier to get going and maintain.
They find GCP easy to get into and strong for data and AI, but frustrating and missing enterprise features once you go deep.
They found GCP very easy to get running, including third party services, and plan to make it their go-to platform for ad hoc work compared with AWS.
Moving from AWS to a company on GCP, they find it feels like AWS lite with less clutter and a nice gcloud shell, plus better container and Kubernetes support in their opinion.
Their expertise is in Google Cloud and they find it easy to work with and easy to see how resources depend on each other, though they feel the docs could be better.
With more years on AWS than GCP, they find GCP more developer-friendly with an intuitive org structure, strong BigQuery, a better Gemini, and slightly cheaper pricing.
They report spending a lot less time troubleshooting and running things in GCP than elsewhere, matching what they heard from customers who migrated from AWS.
They used it as a solo developer and preferred the developer experience much more than AWS.
They find the GCP network stack and IAM more intuitive than AWS, like the native Workspace integration, and call GKE fantastic.
Having used all three major clouds, they find GCP easier to set up and manage, with great documentation, and call it their favorite.
They find GCP service naming reasonable so you can tell what a service does without reading docs.
They started on GCP because their workplace chose it and stayed because it feels easy to use compared with AWS and Azure.
They found GCP easy to use in a devops setting with a much nicer UI than AWS or Azure, though they last used it heavily 3 years ago.
They run a Kubernetes platform that started on GCP and later added AWS and Azure, and find GCP much smoother. Nodes spin up quickly and custom spot node sizes are possible.
They have used Google Cloud since 2011, starting with App Engine, and never wanted to switch. They like the deployment process, console, logging and security.
They like GCP developer experience and service integration, and find CI/CD with Cloud Build far easier than CDK and CloudFormation on AWS.
They like GCP for being easy to use and behaving as expected, and single out Log Explorer as great.
One month into a free trial for their startup, they chose GCP largely for Cloud SQL and like IAP for VM access, the docs and the firewall. They say no bad so far, though cost keeps them on open source security tools.
They run environments in AWS, GCP and Azure and find GCP generally better for quality of life and polish than the clunky Azure.
They moved from Azure and Windows to GCP at a new job and found it simpler with a much better UI; GCP is now their main cloud.
They started on AWS but, with a dev background, found most things far easier and more intuitive on GCP, and now dread going back to other clouds.
After lots of time on Azure, AWS and GCP they would choose GCP every time, praising its docs, tools and SDKs and saying nothing matches Cloud Run for containers.
They enjoy GCP's project-based organisation as a clearer way to structure resources, and that most services visibly wrap open source tools.
They found GCP far more intuitive than Azure or AWS, with global VPCs, a simple resource hierarchy and clear IAM. Friction comes from Workspace-based identity and OAuth when authenticating from outside GCP.
They find GCP command line oriented, friendly for people from a Linux background and straightforward for developers, with useful official docs. They prefer it to AWS for deploying a k8s cluster.
They hosted static sites on Google Cloud and Azure using blob storage with custom URLs at low cost. They found Google Cloud easiest to set up, doing most of it through CLI tools.
Common questions about Google Cloud
Is Google Cloud worth it?
Of the 182 reviews with a clear verdict, 21% are positive, 18% mixed and 61% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is surprise bill.
What do people like about Google Cloud?
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (15 reviews), great value (5 reviews) and helpful support (5 reviews). For example: They find Google App Engine easier to set up and more secure than AWS offerings, and nearly free for small jobs.
What are the most common complaints about Google Cloud?
The complaints reviewers mention most: surprise bill (71 reviews), poor support (49 reviews) and outages (8 reviews). For example: On a small project they ran up $300 in two weeks just by leaving a VM on. They wanted spending caps by default.
What does the signal score of 63 mean?
It's how well reviewed Google Cloud is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Google Cloud?
Category: Cloud platform. Free plan: Yes.
Where do these Google Cloud reviews come from?
262 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.
