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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Google Compute Engine

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    		N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    Google Compute Engine

    Score8.3 out of 10
    		N/AGoogle Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product from Google Cloud. It provides virtual machines with carbon-neutral infrastructure which run on the same data centers that Google itself uses.

    $0

    per month GB

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Google Compute Engine
    Editions & Modules
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
    Preemptible Price - Predefined Memory
    0.000892 / GB
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.001907 / GB
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
    $0.002669 / GB
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined Memory
    $0.004237 / GB
    Hour
    Preemptible Price - Predefined vCPUs
    0.006655 / vCPU
    Hour
    Three-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.014225 / CPU
    Hour
    One-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.019915 / vCPU
    Hour
    On-demand price - Predefined vCPUS
    $0.031611 / vCPU
    Hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Google Compute Engine
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Prices vary according to region (i.e US central, east, & west time zones). Google Compute Engine also offers a discounted rate for a 1 & 3 year commitment.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Google Compute Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Amazon EC2 is super flexible compared to the PaaS offerings like Heroku Platform and Google App Engine since with Amazon EC2, we have access to the terminal. In terms of pricing, it's basically just the same as Google Compute Engine. The deciding factor is Amazon EC2's native …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    AWS EC2 is fully interfaced with the Amazon Web Services platform and Google Compute Engine fits in more with Google. While either provider would have been fine, we are pretty much all built on top of AWS at this point barring some clients. It just flowed easier.
    Incentivized
    Miguel Angel Merino Vega
    Analista de Sistemas in Information Technology at Consultor independiente de software (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Compared to other IaaS providers such as Google Compute Engine, EC2 stands out due to its ease of use, good performance, and low price. Lately, Google Compute Engine seems to have improved noticeably, but we stack with EC2 for the trust and quality that has generated is in …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Azure VM and Google Compute Engine are alternatives to EC2. AWS EC2 is most matures and advanced of the 3. All these provide easy-to-deploy and automatically configured third-party applications, including single virtual machine or multiple virtual machine solutions.
    Incentivized
    Anatoly Geyfman
    Founder & CEO in Information Technology at Carevoyance (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    We ended up not selecting EC2, we chose Google Compute Engine instead. Reason for us choosing GCE was due to:
    1. Ability to define custom compute units in GCE.
    2. More transparent pricing due to automatic usage discounts.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    The availability of AWS startup credits led my choice of AWS EC2.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Amazon was the first one in the market to provide virtual machines in the cloud and certainly gained a lot of popularity before the rest even came to the picture. The different service providers are quite mutually exclusive, and one cannot easily use more than one at the same …
    Incentivized
    Apurv Doshi
    Senior Solutions Architect at Infostretch (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    EC2 has better modes, a variety of instances and UI support as compare to GCE. GCE is completely command driven. As compared to it EC2 provides a better user interface.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Security and cost are the major components which impact end users. We evaluated all the cloud platforms, and found AWS EC2 to be very cheap and more secure than GCP. Due to the improper configuration in AWS, we were compromised several times, then fixed it via some partners. …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    It is better than other products in terms of their support team, documentation and initially, you can set up your services almost without paying anything. Apart from them, AWS services do have the best availability in any region in compared to other cloud products available …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, including S3 and Cloudfront, to accelerate content delivery and SNS to manage notifications.
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Google Compute Engine
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Google Compute Engine
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    Google Compute Engine
    7.3
    58 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings8.125 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings7.555 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings3.026 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings7.357 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings7.958 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings7.957 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Google Compute Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    7.6
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)