About Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform is a modular-based platform providing multiple build and scale services to businesses of any size within any industry. It offers tools for document storage, data warehousing, security key enforcement, app creation, API management, AI and machine learning, live chat, and more.
With Google Cloud Platform, users can store large amounts of data in cloud storage and scalable data warehouses with built-in machine learning. Additionally, users have access to relational and non-relational databases for transactions, complex queries, streaming, offline sync, and more. The platform also includes data migration services such as data import for BigQuery, large scale network transfer of data, and a rackable storage server for large volumes of data.
Google Cloud Platform enables users to streamline management workflows with integrated management consoles, browser and mobile device compatibility, and cost optimization tools. The platform also includes a global fiber network, providing users with defense-in-depth network security and reliability. Additional networking features include content delivery, service tiers, telemetry, low-latency DNS serving, traffic management, load balancing, and a network intelligence center for network monitoring, verification, and optimization.
With Google Cloud Platform users can integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into pre-existing applications using custom or pre-trained modules, as well as gather insights derived from text, speech, video, and images. The platform offers natural language features for cloud translation from any language.
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- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
GCP is a robust, powerful platform that offers simple cloud hosting for websites
Reviewed on 18/02/2021
Google Cloud Platform allows our website to scale rapidly as needed, while offering a cheap and...
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.
Pros
GCP 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).
Cons
Google 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.
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Simplicity of interface & familiarity with brand
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Google Cloud is a cost effective alternative to S3 and continually improving -watch this space.
Reviewed on 31/10/2020
Google Cloud has allowed us to scale key parts of our data pipeline and democratise access to data...
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.
Pros
The 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.
Cons
BigQuery 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.
Reasons for Switching to Google Cloud
We chose Google Cloud over Amazon because it was more cost effective at the level of usage we were expecting.- Industry: Sports
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Peace of mind and Very Easy to Use
Reviewed on 02/11/2023
Pros
Its very easy to use and saves everything without me having to do anything
Cons
At the moment, i have not found anything i don't like
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10
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Reviewed on 12/07/2023
My overall experience is not good as Google Cloud does not provide an easy interface and i have to...
My overall experience is not good as Google Cloud does not provide an easy interface and i have to do everything through the terminal. Also, it is a little bit expensive.
Pros
I like the free credits that Google Cloud provides for researchers to explore the platform. Google Cloud is very good in services related to NLP/text especially the that it is supporting multiple languages for these services. Also, I like the dashboards that Google Cloud offers to track and monitor the services I am currently using.
Cons
Google Cloud has a very limited service for AI comparing to other competitors. The interface of Google Cloud is not easy to use, and I cannot customize it as I want. Also, I do not like the pricing of some services on Google Cloud like the virtual machines, it is really very expensive.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Good price and excellent Cloud Platform. Love it
Reviewed on 09/09/2023
I had opportunity to utilize Google Cloud for our organization's cloud computing for 2 year, and I...
I had opportunity to utilize Google Cloud for our organization's cloud computing for 2 year, and I must say that it has exceeded our expectations in terms of performance, reliability, and overall user experience.From the moment we migrated our infrastructure to Google Cloud, we witnessed a remarkable improvement in our operations. The platform's robustness and scalability allowed us to seamlessly expand our resources and handle increased workloads without any performance bottlenecks. The ease with which we could provision virtual machines and configure network settings simplified our deployment process significantly.After applied to Google cloud, I had learned a lot of new knowledge on a new platform and a lot of new opportunities have come to me.
Pros
The best things like is the way that google cloud design the platform. It's really easy to use in the dashboard and the pricing is lower than others
Cons
Google Cloud's support can be slow to respond, especially for non-critical issues
Google Cloud FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Google Cloud.Q. What type of pricing plans does Google Cloud offer?
Google Cloud offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
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.
Q. Who are the typical users of Google Cloud?
Google Cloud has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Google Cloud support?
Google Cloud supports the following languages:
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
Q. Does Google Cloud support mobile devices?
Google Cloud supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Google Cloud integrate with?
Google Cloud integrates with the following applications:
Netskope Active Platform, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Slack, Splunk Enterprise, Sumo Logic, Telegram, Webex, xMatters
Q. What level of support does Google Cloud offer?
Google Cloud offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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