Amazon Web Services vs. Google Compute Engine

Amazon Web Services

Google Compute Engine

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Web Services	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.	$100 per month
Google Compute Engine	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	Google 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 Web Services

Google Compute Engine

Free Tier: $0
per month
Basic Environment: $100 - $200
per month
Intermediate Environment: $250 - $600
per month
Advanced Environment: $600-$2500
per month

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

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Web Services	Google Compute Engine
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

AWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services.

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.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon Web Services	Google Compute Engine
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Kenny McGarrity IT Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at Pace Supply (Wholesale, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services The decision was made to go with AWS because of name recognition and familiarity by contractors we hired. I checked out Google Compute Engine a few years ago, and it did have similar option set, however Google in general was behind Amazon's offerings. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services OCI and Google Compute Engine are a bit cheaper than AWS but AWS has better chargeback and more granular monitoring of various KPIs. But at the same time, AWS has a learning curve while GCE especially is much easier to use. Microsoft Azur has a much better partner and developer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Favorable prices at the time of decision making. Flexibility and part of team had prior knowledge Incentivized Helpful? Brian Lusenhop Vice President Marketing and Product Management in Information Technology at SPIDA Software (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Rackspace BlueMile Google Compute Engine Helpful?	Google Jeffrey Lange Cybersecurity Analyst in Information Technology at Confidential (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Compute Engine As far as user-friendliness is concerned, I personally rank Google Cloud above both AWS and Azure. Their user interface makes it easy to manage, which is important. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine Google Cloud lacks the features and compatibility of the other cloud providers. It makes up for that with highly specialized and perfected services like their Big Data and Query features. Incentivized Helpful? Aditya Mohan Manager in Information Technology at Skive it (Airlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Compute Engine After all the discounts, GCE is a bit cheaper with much less incidental expenses to deploy and maintain compared to Amazon, Microsoft Azur and Oracle (OCI). It is also easy to manage as the interface is simpler compared to AWS or Azur. Incentivized Helpful? Fedor Paretsky Co-Founder/CEO in Engineering at aspace, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Compute Engine AWS's UI could use a lot of work, and their API documentation was much worse compared to Google's, which was already tough to read and figure out. Google's free trial of their services through a platform credit (which AWS doesn't offer), also helped us test their compute … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine I've used Rackspace, AWS, and Digital Ocean to host virtual environments. In my opinion, GCE has a robust feature set on par with any other mainstream virtual hosting company. I would say AWS and Digital Ocean are comparable, and Rackspace would be slightly less robust than … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Zhang Reseach & Engineering Consultant in Engineering at Self (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Compute Engine AWS has a ton of options in terms of tools that you can use. It's pricing model is hit or miss (some offerings are simply unaffordable). Some of the API design is questionable at best and frustrating at worst. Microsoft Azure is a newcomer in the market with focus on enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine For this particular use-case Google Compute Engine was the better platform as this was a focused development and did not require bespoke infrastructure to support it. The service offered allowed the opportunity to embed core Google apps and services to deliver a quality service … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Amazon Web Services

Google Compute Engine

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine
Feature	Amazon Web Services 8.3 68 Ratings	Google Compute Engine 7.3 58 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.364 Ratings	8.125 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.065 Ratings	8.353 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.761 Ratings	8.048 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	7.557 Ratings	7.555 Ratings
Monitoring tools	7.065 Ratings	3.026 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	6.758 Ratings	7.357 Ratings
Operating system support	8.463 Ratings	7.958 Ratings
Security controls	8.366 Ratings	7.957 Ratings
Automation	8.717 Ratings	7.92 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Web Services	Google Compute Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (80 ratings)	7.6 (58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (10 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (11 ratings)	9.0 (8 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.6 (21 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (21 ratings)
Support Rating	7.2 (24 ratings)	10.0 (10 ratings)
Online Training	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

Amazon Web Services vs. Google Compute Engine

Amazon Web Services

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