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Azure Cloud Services vs. Google Compute Engine

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Cloud Services

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAzure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring…

    $0.02

    per hour

    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
    Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle Compute Engine
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle Compute Engine
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices 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
    Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle Compute Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Google
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    Google Compute Engine provides a one stop solution for all the complex features and the UI is better than Amazon's EC2 and Azure Machine Learning for ease of usability.

    It's always good to have an eco-system of products from Google as it's one of the most used search engine and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    Google Compute Engine provides flexible cloud resources to deploy instantly and free 300$ credits provided option is a good consideration for those tech savvy who want to test and explore the features of Google cloud platform.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers 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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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle Compute Engine
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure Cloud Services and Google Compute Engine
    Feature
    Azure Cloud Services
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    Google Compute Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Azure Cloud Services and Google Compute Engine
    Feature
    Azure Cloud Services
    -
    Ratings
    Google Compute Engine
    7.3
    58 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.125 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings7.555 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings3.026 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings7.357 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings7.958 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings7.957 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle Compute Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.6
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)