Google Cloud Run vs. IBM Cloud Code Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Run
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Run enables users to build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (including Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform. Cloud Run can be paired with other container ecosystem tools, including Google's Cloud Build, Cloud Code, Artifact Registry, and Docker. And it features out-of-the-box integration with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Error Reporting to ensure the health of an application.N/A
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A
Pricing
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Features
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Run
7.2
7 Ratings
7% below category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Orchestration8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Cluster Management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Management2.71 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Run
-
Ratings
IBM Cloud Code Engine
6.5
15 Ratings
21% below category average
Scalability00 Ratings6.715 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings6.315 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.6 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(7 ratings)
6.3
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(1 ratings)
6.3
(12 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud RunIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Microservices and RestFul API application as it is fast and reliant. Seamless integration with event triggers such as pubsub or event arc, so you can easily integrate that with usecases with file uploads, database changes, etc. Basically great with short-lived tasks, if however, you have long-running processses, Cloud Run might not be idle for this. For example if you have a long running data processing task, other solutions such as kubeflow pipelines or dataflow are more suited for this kind of tasks. Cloud Run is also stateless, so if you need memory, you will have to connect an external database.
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IBM
It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
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Pros
Google
  • Auto scaling is the best one
  • provide direct VPC connectivity and rigid network
  • Cloud SQL and Pub/Sub services
  • Handling latency issues
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IBM
  • Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP
  • A variety of programming model support
  • Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed
  • Flexible consumption model
  • Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability
  • Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg
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Cons
Google
  • The UI can be made simpler. Currently the UI is bloated and it takes time to find out what you want
  • More integrations with container registry providers (ECR, dockerhub)
  • Better permissions UX. Currently GCP requires service accounts to be used with cloud products, the experience adding/removing permissions is difficult to navigate
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IBM
  • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
  • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
  • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
We definitely need to renew it because we dont own our own infrastructure and storage and we are happy with Cloud Run features
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IBM
Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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Usability
Google
The UI/console is great... the documentation is top-notch for developers, but the CLI itself when you have to script around it is very complex and easy to forget some options... the downside of a generic command line client.
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IBM
Consumers can purchase individual components as well as unlocking new bundles with special features and services including the extensive data management governance capabilities of the Automation range. Kubernetes containerizing for effective service implementation and an agile, flexible multi-cloud data program help both utilization expansion and deployment to be improved by this architecture.
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Reliability and Availability
Google
Not seen any major issues when we run applications its good
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Performance
Google
Initially we felt slow but slowly it picked up and easy to manage
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Google
I was involved in the initial implementation setup, Its easy with the given documentaiton we can do ourself. Not that critical
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Google
AWS Lambda supports code zip package, enabling lower cold start time. Also, AWS Lambda pricing is much simpler, easier to understand.
Other than that, the 2 products are very similar, including the Docker image support: the image must be built based on proprietary base image.
Obviously, if your other services are running in GCP, then Google Cloud Run is your only choice for tight integration, & private networking.
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IBM
What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data integration functions and the first deployment is not very technical.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Google
Not part of purchase.
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Google
It has good auto scale feature and reliable also
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Google
We have very good support when needed
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Google
  • Built in support for auto scaling helps reduce operational overhead
  • Any application performance issues can be addressed quickly by allocating more resources while a proper fix can be planned and rolled out later
  • Using Google Cloud Run enables development of microservices which provides granular control for scaling critical services in the platform
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IBM
  • [One] positive is that we have one tool to learn (and a simple one) for all kinds of deployment. We need less people to maintain the system.
  • We have saved a lot of time on trouble shooting. It's clear how it works. It's "just" kubernetes..
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