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Free Tier: New customers get $300 in free credits to fully explore and conduct an assessment of Google Cloud. You won’t be charged until you upgrade. Free Usage Per Month: All customers get free hands-on experience with 20+ popular products, including Compute Engine and Cloud Storage, up to monthly limits. Each product has its specific pricing and is usually charged per usage per month. Please refer to the specific product pricing page on Google cloud Website for more details.
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Most Helpful Reviews for Google Cloud
1 - 5 of 1,848 Reviews
Andrew
11 - 50 employees
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
Reviewed October 2021
Google Truly is the Best
Darien
Verified reviewer
Religious Institutions, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2021
GCP is a robust, powerful platform that offers simple cloud hosting for websites
Google Cloud Platform allows our website to scale rapidly as needed, while offering a cheap and completely customizable hosting platform. While complicated, GCP allows power users to run very powerful websites for fairly cheap, and unlimited potential for future development.
PROSGCP is a very complicated platform, with unlimited potential for those who know how to use it; but once you learn how to use a specific tool - it becomes a very powerful and simple tool to use. I currently only use the Compute Manager (Virtual Machine), VPC Network (External IP) and Network Services (Cloud DNS) to run a cloud-based Wordpress site. Overall, once you learn the system, Google Cloud offers a very powerful solution for web management - giving unlimited potential for upgrades & sizes, allowing for localized solutions & access to the full Google Cloud network, and giving a (cheap) solution for powerful web hosting. With GCP, we spend only $7 a month (CAD), and our site runs significantly faster than it previously did on other hosting services. On top of that, GCP allows complete control over the backend linux server; which is a learning curve in itself, but offers quick & easy ways to manage every aspect of your website - the PHP version, specific file permissions, custom platform solutions (such as access to install different Google API's).
CONSGoogle Cloud Platform is an insanely powerful platform with incredible features, but it also carries a VERY steep learning curve and is not for the faint of heart. While other web hosting services provide a simple interface most people can learn quickly, GCP throws you into the deep-end; requiring deeper knowledge of linux code (for backend management) and an understanding of web hosting in order to operate properly. Fortunately, with numerous guides and support forums/groups out there, it can be easy to learn.
Reason for choosing Google Cloud
Simplicity of interface & familiarity with brand
Reasons for switching to Google Cloud
Squarespace no longer fit our design or hosting needs.
Andrew
Verified reviewer
Research, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2020
Google Cloud is a cost effective alternative to S3 and continually improving -watch this space.
Google Cloud has allowed us to scale key parts of our data pipeline and democratise access to data for reporting; removing bottlenecks in reporting and allowing self-service analytics, but it is overkill for companies that don't deal with pentabytes of data.
PROSThe integration with other Google products is particularly impressive and makes it easy to set up. Using Forms for entry to Sheets which sync to BigQuery and DataStudio makes for very quick and easy expansion. Recently they have added a feature whereby query results can be viewed in Sheets for quick, less technical analysis. I was particularly impressed by BigQuery's free public datasets: such as covid. AppSheet is much easier to use than MS PowerApps. They are continually adding novel features, with a natural language processing feature coming soon, allowing SQL queries to be composed using natural English.
CONSBigQuery does not feel like a mature product yet. The UI can be buggy and is not particularly user friendly. DataStudio lacks the flexibility of software like MS PowerBI; it lacks basic scientific graphs like boxplots and control charts and I would not recommend it for scientific data. AppSheet lacks the flexibility of MS PowerApps and is priced per user, making it expensive to scale and greatly reducing the potential use cases.
Reason for choosing Google Cloud
We chose Google Cloud over Amazon because it was more cost effective at the level of usage we were expecting.
Marnie
Design, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2024
Great for storing things
I like that for an inexpensive fee I get a bunch of storage so that I can showcase my work without taking up memory on my personal devices
CONSThere isn't much I dislike but it would always be nice to have more storage for a smaller fee.
Martin
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2024
Complex cloud management tool
Not very intuitive but features rich tool for cloud management.
PROSContains lots of features for cloud management. Lots of support functionalities like spend overview, cloud monitoring, SDK libraries, CLI applications. Allows to deploy docker images for production environment.
CONSVery complex tool. Like other Google applications it isn't very user friendly and can be really hard to set up / configure anything. You need to read docs carefully to do nearly anything.