They use Spanner as their company main database and say it removed the need for many ETL pipelines and handles vector, relational and search workloads.
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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.
21% Positive18% Mixed61% Negative
What customers love, and what they don’tWhat customers noticed
Customer reviews (262)
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They went with GCP in 2017 and found latency low and consistent compared to AWS, and now manage about 145 active projects.
They ran over 8,000 Kubernetes clusters across AWS, GCP and Azure and found GCP faster, better value and simpler, though its outages were bigger and AZs less robust.
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.
Their company runs 100 percent serverless on GCP with cloud native patterns, with better performance and far lower costs than their old data centers.
They run performant, high throughput workloads on GCP that are completely serverless with true scale to zero.
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.
