After 10+ years on AWS they have used Google Cloud for 2 years and are impressed by its comparative stability and cohesive APIs.
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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 went with GCP in 2017 and found latency low and consistent compared to AWS, and now manage about 145 active projects.
Their client sites are on GCP, and each time AWS has crashed their sites were unaffected.
They have hosted their applications on GCP for almost 10 years, from App Engine to Cloud Run, without hitting a deprecated service. Their Azure workloads see services deprecated far more often.
They joined a GCP company seven years ago after about five years on AWS and found GCP had fewer services but was more sensible and stable, though the gap has narrowed since.
They say GKE standard just works and like the API migration assistant and cost optimization tools. They also praise GCP docs, UI and VPC networking.
They say GKE just works and is hard to break, and that it integrates well with the rest of GCP via workload identity. They also use Artifact Registry as a DockerHub cache.
They built the Shopdisney.com backend order flow on GCP Pub/Sub and Dataflow and say it was extremely reliable.
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.
