Akamai Cloud Computing vs. Google Cloud Storage

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai Cloud Computing	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode) include scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products and services support developers and enterprises as they build, deploy, secure, and scale applications.	$5 per month
Google Cloud Storage	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.	N/A

CPU, transfer, storage, and RAM are bundled into one price. Storage capacity can be increased with additional Block Storage or S3-compatible Object Storage. Instant Backups can be added with complete independence to the stack. Linode NodeBalancers ensure applications are available.

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	Akamai Cloud Computing	Google Cloud Storage
Considered Both Products	Akamai Nasib Sirohi Service Manager in Information Technology at Great Future Technology Pvt. Ltd. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing All the companies [and] service providers [have] some [unique] features. They [work well] but we are having [a good experience] with Linode. As compare to AWS and Google Cloud, Linode is very cheap and if we compare it with DigitalOcean then they both have similar … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode's price for performance is unmatched. The scalability and customizability of their offerings is likewise superlative. Uptime is great and they have servers in all of the places we need them. Security is on par with the rest. Their web interface is useful. Their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing For other jobs I worked with both AWS and GCP and they both are mind-boggling complex in comparison. You have a running machine on Linode by the time you just started reading what services you need to activate for your project in AWS / GCP. This also makes the pricing of Linode … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We considered Digital Ocean but the overall offering was not found as convincing at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode provides easier and more understandable pricing and value. I never have to wonder or estimate the month's costs or have any surprises. Linode also is more logically laid out and easy to get things set up and running quickly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Digital Ocean, AWS are used by some of our clients. Linode is good and I'm very comfortable using it for the last 2-3 years, so love to refer it to clients too. Incentivized Helpful? Marc Lewis Owner in Information Technology at Innovotel, LLC (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing One of our clients was previously hosted on Rackspace, then Google Cloud Services. Their Rackspace services were very expensive and provided little in the way of migration or management. After re-engineering their deployment, we migrated them to Google Cloud Services (GCS) … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Google cloud provides serverless scalable services that protect key business pipelines from falling over during unexpected high volumes. Linode clusters require management and provisional scaling, which is acceptable in most cases but still requires monitoring. That said, GCP … Incentivized Helpful? Erik Arneson Consultant in Information Technology at Self-Employed (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode offers a fairly specialized subset of cloud services, which makes the dashboard interface a million times easier to use than both GCP and AWS. In addition, their VPS offerings give you a broader range of control with (thankfully) fewer options. This makes it easier to … Incentivized Helpful?	Google No answer on this topic
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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User Ratings
	Akamai Cloud Computing	Google Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (216 ratings)	10.0 (35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.3 (29 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (21 ratings)	8.0 (12 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (3 ratings)	9.0 (9 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (215 ratings)	7.8 (13 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (11 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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