DigitalOcean Droplets vs. Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

DigitalOcean Droplets

Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.	$4 per month
Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud has a network of 27 regions and 200+ countries and territories, boasting little to no downtime for its users. It is automatically configured or can be done by the user and allows you to bring your own IP addresses to reduce downtime caused by migration.	$0 based on services that process ingress traffic: Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Protocol forwarding.

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Editions & Modules

Basic: $4
per month
CPU-Optimized: $42
per month
General Purpose: $63
per month
Memory-Optimized: $84
per month
Storage-Optimized: $131
per month

egress traffic: $0 - 0.15
per GB
ingress traffic: $0
based on services that process ingress traffic: Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Protocol forwarding.
Premium Tier (egress rates): $0- $0.23
per month per GB of data delivered
Standard Tier (egress rates): $0.045, $0.065, $0.085
per month per GB of data delivered: 150-500TB, 10-150TB, 0-10TB

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Droplets Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Vultr had better performance in some instances but overall the dashboard was a mess to use a lot of times. When you zoom out from server performance and price, DigitalOcean offered more useful features, and the API was more consistent in some of the use cases we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Cost is much lesser Interface is very easy to use Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases. Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Chose DigitalOcean Droplets The reason for selecting digital ocean was since we require a cloud solution for testing applications internally without being bothered about servers needing to be deployed in different geographical locations. As Droplets can be deployed very easily and boot faster than any … Incentivized Helpful? LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Both Linode and DigitalOcean Droplets perform about the same and cost about the same. However we prefer the DigitalOcean Droplets interface, and the Cloud Firewall service is a must for us. Incentivized Helpful?	Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Vinaya Kumar B Engineering Lead Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Most of my cloud services are deployed in Google Cloud. As such I decided to use Google Cloud VPC as compared to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Support for serverless connector is super useful given that most of the micro services I build are deployed as Cloud Run services. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Routing traffic between regions is automatic, Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud had more features that fit the nature of my use case. Incentivized Helpful? Yash Trivedi Software Engineer III Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Google VPC and networking infrastructure is very matured and is built later after Amazon VPC. It made sure to address all the limitations faced by amazon VPC. Google Virtual private cloud is across regions while amazon VPC covers only one region but multiple zones. Google VPC … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) On Cloud storage, Google Cloud VPC has an edge over the rest of the service providers. Also, Google Cloud VPC is the ideal choice for AI/ML and data analytics because of Google's reputation in these fields. Google Cloud VPC, on the other hand, provides a secure private network, … Incentivized Helpful? Matte Ismail SYSTEMS OFFICER - BIOMETRICS Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Integration, user management and Integration capability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Google cloud VPC is quite comparable to Amazon VPC in its offerings, but Google Cloud was picked based on good previous experiences working with it. They both have a similar payment model and allow scaling up computing resources and provide good customer service. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Better support. More documentation. Easier Accessibility. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) I think it stacks up pretty well against them. Although, I think there is room for improvement considering their UI is sometimes a bit laggy. Since it's a lot easier to use than it's competitors, I feel that this particular feature makes it a better choice for new and upcoming … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Google Cloud VPC has competitive advantage on Cloud storage over rest of the service providers. Also AI/ML and Data Analytics services are best with Google Cloud VPC as Google is known for these. Security wise also Google Cloud VPC provides private network although and nothing … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.9 out of 10	Vultr Score 6.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	No answers on this topic
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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Likelihood to Recommend	There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Well-suited scenarios: 1. Large Organisations with more than at least a thousand employees. 2. Teams spanning across multiple countries or regions. 3. Research institutes require privacy and confidentiality. 4. Educational institutes to separate departments from various attacks. Less appropriate scenarios: 1. Startups have less than 100 employees. 2. Users are accessing resources from the same place. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Serverless connector helps Cloud Run services to communicate privately. Serverless connector supports auto scaling. Being serverless, the cost is based on usage for serverless connector. Incentivized Vinaya Kumar Bendi Engineering Lead Read full review
Cons	In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations. No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage. Number of service is quite limited. Incentivized Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Read full review	Google Cloud VPC support for Oracle Databases is still the lagging point. Improvement in that front is need of the hour Google Cloud VPC still needs to work on Technical customer services. Google still not among the first to launch new services which makes the customers to choose other Cloud solution providers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	VPC is a difficult concept to grasp and recommendations for configuring it would be helpful in educating the users to make the right choice while using the product in configuring networking for their cloud deployments. Also, the user interface can be intuitively designed so as to suggest templates to perform common configurations with regard to VPC. Incentivized Vinaya Kumar Bendi Engineering Lead Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Read full review	On Cloud storage, Google Cloud VPC has an edge over the rest of the service providers. Also, Google Cloud VPC is the ideal choice for AI/ML and data analytics because of Google's reputation in these fields. Google Cloud VPC, on the other hand, provides a secure private network, despite the fact that there is no trace of the public network on it. Google Cloud VPC services are also less expensive than those offered by other cloud service providers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible Incentivized Tom Blazek IT Manager Read full review	It did solve a lot of issues regarding accessibility from different geographical zones. Since the cost is lower, we did save a lot in comparison with the on-site deployments. Although we had to train a few people, we were easily to able to get work done quickly after that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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