They migrated their product from AWS to GCP (GKE Autopilot, Cloud Run, AlloyDB) and halved costs, with better database performance and pay-for-storage-only pricing.
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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
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Customer reviews (262)
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They use committed use discounts and say AlloyDB performance and spend has been beyond amazing for them.
They find Google App Engine easier to set up and more secure than AWS offerings, and nearly free for small jobs.
Their team replicated a proof of concept on GCP in about 3 days at roughly 30% of the estimated AWS monthly price, and found GCP onboarding top notch. Their one complaint is that Google habitually kills off services.
They find GCP generally better on prices and service than AWS and appreciate its open sourcing of tools to reduce lock in.
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 used OVH and DigitalOcean for years and are now really happy on GCP, hosting the database on Linux instances behind Cloudflare to keep costs and egress fees down.
Their previous employer moved its Google Cloud account to a reseller (DoIT), which they call the best decision made, saving money and getting much better support.
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 find GCP cheaper in practice after discounts and say its UI is much better than Azure or AWS.
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.
A developer hosts their personal website on Google Cloud for about a penny a month.
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.
