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AWS CloudFormation vs. Google Cloud Platform

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AWS CloudFormation

107 Reviews and Ratings

Google Cloud Platform

34 Reviews and Ratings

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    AWS CloudFormation

    Score8.8 out of 10
    		N/AAWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.…

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    Google Cloud Platform

    Score8.1 out of 10
    		N/AGoogle Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services used to build apps or take advantage of cloud infrastructural services, achieve legacy infrastructure modernization, or manage enterprise data and analytic needs.

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    AWS CloudFormationGoogle Cloud Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account
    $0.00
    Handler Operation
    $0.0009
    per handler operation
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS CloudFormationGoogle Cloud Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThere is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource.—
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    AWS CloudFormationGoogle Cloud Platform
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    Amazon AWS
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    Google
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    Chose Google Cloud Platform
    We also use AWS and Azure in the setup, but went as far as GCP because it scales data workloads. BigQuery made complex analytics so fast and painless. The fact that it plays nicely with other Google tools means a better fit for how our teams work. GCP offered us more reliable …
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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
    AWS CloudFormationGoogle Cloud Platform
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of AWS CloudFormation and Google Cloud Platform
    Feature
    AWS CloudFormation
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    Ratings
    Google Cloud Platform
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AWS CloudFormationGoogle Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)