Google Compute Engine

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

Preemptible Price - Predefined Memory: 0.000892 / GB
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Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory: $0.001907 / GB
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One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory: $0.002669 / GB
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On-demand price - Predefined Memory: $0.004237 / GB
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Preemptible Price - Predefined vCPUs: 0.006655 / vCPU
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Three-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS: $0.014225 / CPU
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One-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS: $0.019915 / vCPU
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On-demand price - Predefined vCPUS: $0.031611 / vCPU
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Pricing Offerings
Google Compute Engine
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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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	Google Compute Engine
Considered Both Products	Google Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine Cloud providers offering virtual machines are quite common. I think, Google, however, is arguably one of the top players in the market, with some of the largest (if not the largest) and most advanced server farms in the world. If you're looking for reliability and cost … Incentivized Helpful? Rajveer Mathur AI/ML Engineer in Engineering at Brillio (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Google Compute Engine The perfect blend of setup flexibility, costing and trust of Google could be my answer to the comparison. This being a server backed service so, ruling out the functions. The Setup flexibility and speed set the GCE apart from Kubernetes. Compliance, regulation and the security … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? 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 I find Google Compute Engine to be much easier to use than Amazon's EC2 service. The console makes much more sense, permission management is much cleaner, and I'd say the other categories feel on par with EC2: performance, how fine-grained the settings are, connecting to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine The obvious and natural alternatives to GCE are AWS EC2 and Azure VMs. I would say all three are more similar than not. Picking one will most likely depend on what platform you're on already, where your running services are, and which one is more familiar to your team. Incentivized Helpful? Alok Pabalkar Co-Founder & CTO in Research & Development at GIDE.AI (Internet, 51-200 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine When configuring Amazon ECS, it is a bit confusing as you are not able to find the actual issue. You need to enable Additional AppInsights to get detailed level info, which is not a concern when configuring on the Instance Level. Moreover, Azure VM does not provide an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine I have utilised Google Compute Engine in addition to Amazon EC2. Both exhibit excellent performance in terms of consumption, speed, and efficiency.My decision to adopt Google Compute Engine was solely based on how user-friendly it is. more basic UI/UX than EC2.Google's customer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine Google Compute Engine is a different animal than GKE, used for different purposes. Compares 1:1 with ECS, and is an equivalent product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine Ec2 has much more compatibility with different tech stacks than Google Compute Engine. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine The price difference is not very high between them. Both of them provide good services. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine Google Compute Engine provides on-demand computing resources that are easy to scale up or down according to my organization needs. This allows our business to quickly adapt to changes in demand without having to invest in additional hardware. It also offers a very competitive … Incentivized Helpful? Manan Soni Application Engineer in Information Technology at Citrix (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Compute Engine While Amazon EC2 is the best tool for developers to build an app and make it live, It has some downsides too. EC2 requires so much development while Google Compute Engine makes it easy to build an app within a days. EC2 pricing also relatively high compare to Google Compute … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine GCE is available in 3 different regions whereas Ec2 is available in 11 different regions. The compute resources offered by the GCE has lower maximum capacity compared to AWS Ec2. The pricing model of GCE offers first 10 mins free and then charging in increments of 10 mins. Both … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine I prefer the Compute Engine Over these as it provides us with Better Scalability, Performance, and Reliability Security-related Issues don't arise with the Compute Engine, but yes, in terms of accessing or running, it can be improved a bit as compared to EC2 offered by AWS. Incentivized Helpful? Manthan Dhola Solutions Architect in Professional Services at BIDAYA TECH (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Google Compute Engine the main reason of choosing GCE is availability and user friendly UI with a very good documentation and API explanations. Great visibility over the infra and security. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine The features specific to Google Compute Engine vs Amazon EC2 along with cost and availability are comparable, there may be other services within the vendor which may mean that one is more suitable for specific applications than the other one. We have used both for different … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine Google was easy to start with in terms of ease of use and support access. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine AWS has become the de facto standard. Skills in Google Compute Engine and AWS are not easily transferable. Still, after getting to know Google Compute Engine well, productivity can be very high and ROI impressive. There are many additional services offered around Google Compute … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Compute Engine We decided to use GCE mainly for its price and good looking UI. 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Features

Google Compute Engine

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Compute Engine
Feature	Google Compute Engine 7.3 58 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	8.125 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	8.353 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	8.048 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	7.555 Ratings
Monitoring tools	3.026 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	7.357 Ratings
Operating system support	7.958 Ratings
Security controls	7.957 Ratings
Automation	7.92 Ratings

User Ratings
	Google Compute Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (8 ratings)
Availability	8.6 (21 ratings)
Performance	8.3 (21 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (10 ratings)

Google Compute Engine

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