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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    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
    DigitalOceanGoogle Compute Engine
    Editions & Modules
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price 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
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOceanGoogle 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
    DigitalOceanGoogle Compute Engine
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
    Chose DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an easier and cheaper way to [set up] new machines. The UX is really good and it's easy to find what you need. Competition offer[s] a complicated way to manage machines and the cost is sometimes more than [...] double of what DigitalOcean offer[s]. However[,] …
    Incentivized
    Chose DigitalOcean
    Amazon has a very complex UI and many products to offer. They haven't polished up their UI and it has a much greater learning curve compared to DigitalOcean. However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does have more comprehensive cloud computing services, which forces some companies to …
    Incentivized
    Google
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    We have tried using DigitalOcean Droplets for some of our minor and non critical VMs. In our experience, Google Compute Engine fares well in comparison the DigitalOcean Droplets as they provide better availability, better support and in general, a better experience.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    GCE was an easy choice for us after evaluating our options. We needed something that was dynamic enough to handle our specialized stack, but easy enough that our engineers weren't spending too much time configuring and launching. We found AWS's offering to be similar but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    Comparabale to AWS EC2. We selected GCE because of the out-of-the-box K8 engine setup. On AWS, I find it a bit tedious.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    The Google Cloud computing engine is fair at the top because it bills customers, automatic discounting for extended use, and how fast it can be turned on. We enjoy things around setting it up very easily via APIs and CLI commands, and with the always-on recommendations from …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    We decided to use GCE mainly for its price and good looking UI.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    Pricing scale is good. Google Cloud Compute provides additional facilities free of cost (limited storage). Received one year free credits to get started. Nearest regions are available. Others amenities including free repository service available. UI is modern and fast to load. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Compute Engine
    We ultimately chose Google Compute for the price difference as compared to other providers. Google's pricing for Windows servers is even lower than Microsoft's own cloud service, Azure. The terminology used across Google Compute is much easier to understand than the …
    Incentivized
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Features
    DigitalOceanGoogle Compute Engine
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean and Google Compute Engine
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    Google Compute Engine
    7.3
    58 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.228 Ratings8.125 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.029 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing7.021 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates10.027 Ratings7.555 Ratings
    Monitoring tools10.032 Ratings3.026 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images7.531 Ratings7.357 Ratings
    Operating system support8.331 Ratings7.958 Ratings
    Security controls9.029 Ratings7.957 Ratings
    Automation5.03 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    User Ratings
    DigitalOceanGoogle Compute Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    7.6
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (21 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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