Comments: I have worked at two startups now and both were started on EC2 and transitioning to GCP. The costs are almost 50% less at GCP than EC2 and the support at Google to get started is much greater than the massive AWS. The services and Vms are super easy to use and setup. And if your company is on Gsuite, then user management is great. Will always plan on deploying new programs and projects on GCP for foreseeable future.

Pros: Google Cloud Platform is very easy to get started with compared to other clouds. There is free training videos and courses. The costs are among the lowest of all cloud platforms.

Cons: At the beginning compute resources ran out in datacenters that you were already in and using. Also, sometimes features are depreciated or changed to paying for. There is a few months notice on those but still an inconvenience.

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Reviewed on 2019/06/27

Andrew M.

Clinical Data Manager

Research, 51-200 Employees

Used the Software for: 1+ year

Overall Rating

4 /5
Ease of Use

4 /5
Features & Functionality

4 /5
Customer Support

2 /5
Value for Money

5 /5
Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

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Reviewed on 2020/10/31

"Google Cloud is a cost effective alternative to S3 and continually improving -watch this space."

Comments: 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.

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Reviewed on 2020/10/31

Gaurav G.

Data Analyst

Food & Beverages, 5 001-10 000 Employees

Used the Software for: 2+ years

Overall Rating

3 /5
Ease of Use

3 /5
Features & Functionality

3 /5
Customer Support

2 /5
Value for Money

3 /5
Likelihood to Recommend

6/10

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Reviewed on 2020/09/29

"Robust clickstream data storage and analysis tool"

Comments: My overall experience with Google Cloud Platform has been satisfactory. I have been able to work with IT to import marketing campaigns data from multiple sources and store them for querying by analysts in my team. Due to scalability and stability of databases in GCP, I can keep moving more marketing data without worrying about slowing down the databases or crashing them. So, all analytics pulled using this imported data can populate a dashboard and keep it updated with fresh insights. Which helps in driving higher ROI.

Pros: My marketing team uses Google Cloud Platform to collect Google Analytics clickstream data and marry it with structured data from other sources. I analyze that correlated dataset using SQL queries. Some benefits I see off using GCP: I can access data online using a Google email address which I already use for other Google tools. I can export the data extract using Google Sheets and store it in Google Drive. I can import additional data by setting up a daily feed from Google Analytics. So, I get the benefits of a relational database with ability to scale using Google servers.

Cons: Google Cloud Platform is great for importing datasets from Google Analytics and other Google suite tools. But from tools which are not in the Google eco system, it involves heavy lift from ETL developers or architects. Additionally, GCP Bigquery tool has a limit on the volume of queries an analyst can run. Once that limit or cap is crossed, companies have to pay extra. So, using the LIMIT command in SQL becomes critical to limit the numbers of rows. Also, there is a challenge of legacy SQL vs. current version because they use different syntax.

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Reviewed on 2020/09/29

Verified Reviewer

Director of IT

Retail, 1 001-5 000 Employees

Used the Software for: 1-5 months

Overall Rating

5 /5
Ease of Use

5 /5
Features & Functionality

5 /5
Customer Support

5 /5
Value for Money

5 /5
Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

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Reviewed on 2020/09/29

"Google Cloud is a game changer in the Cloud Hosting Game"

Comments: It has been an excellent experience migrating premised based equipment from our data centers in the Google Cloud. The process went extremely well with minimal disruption of our business.

Pros: Google Cloud's ability to not only use the GUI interface but also the CLI interface makes it extremely valuable.

Cons: The user interface is confusing for users coming from AWS or Microsoft Azure. There is a learning curve for people who are not familiar with CLI

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Reviewed on 2020/09/29

Harmony B.

Pastor

Nonprofit Organization Management, 2-10 Employees

Used the Software for: 2+ years

Overall Rating

4 /5
Ease of Use

4 /5
Features & Functionality

5 /5
Customer Support

3 /5
Value for Money

4 /5
Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

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Reviewed on 2020/06/11

"What my thoughts are about google cloud platform."

Comments: I solve data storage problems and help scale back the amount of human error. At the same time, I am able to run data smoothly and efficiently in a beat and orderly fashion.

Pros: I like the fact that you can store an unlimited amount of space as an online back up. If your computer has a major power surge and fries, your work and documents are saved and you have not lost everything.

Cons: I think that there should be an option where you can make the background and fonts a more laid back description instead of always having it professional. I really also don’t really care for how everything is connected to the google—-everything branches out from it.

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Reviewed on 2020/06/11

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