What is Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and what problem is it built to solve?

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a managed messaging service for moving events between independent applications and services. It helps teams decouple publishers from subscribers so they can build asynchronous workflows and process events independently.

What company sizes and industries is Google Cloud Pub/Sub the best fit for?

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is used across small businesses, mid-market organizations, and enterprises, with small-business and enterprise users especially visible. Common uses include connecting services, building event-driven applications, and moving data through pipelines. Small businesses: Use it for lightweight messaging, event triggers, and connecting applications. Mid-market organizations: Use it to link services and support data pipelines as workloads grow. Enterprises: Use it for messaging across microservices, streaming data, and large-scale event-driven systems.

What customer support options does Google Cloud Pub/Sub provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

The support experience comes across as adequate but not consistently a standout; evaluations lean toward the middle, with some stronger and weaker experiences. The emphasis in practical use is more on Pub/Sub’s managed messaging and reliability than on support as a clear differentiator.

The G2 on Google Cloud Pub/Sub

MK

Mansi K.

Software Engineer Intern

Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2019

"usability"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

Easy to understand, easy to use, almost efficient for the intended work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

Not 100% accurate in some things like voice to text transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Human Resources

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2019

"Love the ease of this software!"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

As a company who uses Google for everything, we love how easily this software connects to everything else Google! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

So far, there isn't anything that we don't like about this software. We haven't implemented this full time though, so who knows what's to come. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AF

Angelica F.

Science Teacher

Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/18/2018

"Cloud Pub Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

I like the amount of storage you are able to achieve with this resource. I also like that I could use this for a small business. The amount of storage for applications created and downloaded is immense because the storage allows you to move data as needed to rearrange and organize storage. Computing codes would be easy to create and manage due to the serverless computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

I dislike that the software is only applicable to business. I feel that many consumers could use this product for storage of data, apps, photos etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Pub/Sub:

Try it for free first and see if the features work best for you. The trial ends but you will not be charged until you decide to make an upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Pub/Sub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Workload migration and hybrid cloud features allows for easy access anywhere. Workload is managed in a way that makes it easier for businesses to compile and sort files, data and manage applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE

Verified User in Entertainment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2019

"Google Pub is great!!"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

The functionality of the app is great! There are a lot of features that most apps don’t have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

There aren’t too many flaws; can’t complain! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2019

"It’s google...it just works"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

Pub/Sub are the ease of configuration and the infinite scale/performance. It’s a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

The UI is very limited. I think it can stand a few rounds for more development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Consumer Goods

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/26/2019

"Way easier to do things"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

can use it to send small messages that trigger things to happen, or to send large chunks of data around our global system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

The pricing can be a bit high, I sometimes don’t think it’s worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MY

Mohamed Y.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/19/2018

"CPS vs Kafka (a Google intern experience)"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

No complex configurations needed.

Performant under high utilization.

Easy to setup and use.

Reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

There is no ordering guarantee, so sent messages may arrive in any order.

It uses an at-least-one policy in delivering messages, so handling duplicates is needed on subscribers side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Pub/Sub:

If you need a performant reliable service, go for CPS - if you care for ordering on the cluster side that much, you better go with installing a Kafka cluster - Confluent -. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Pub/Sub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building a Publish-Subscribe stack to provide a means of gathering huge amounts of data, processing it without any need for load balancing - just care for the setup -. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Cloud Pub/Sub will make your life easier!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

The most amazing thing about Cloud Pub/Sub is that it solves a very hard problem in a very easy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

By design, Pub/Sub states it's at least once delivery, but that means that I may get duplicate messages which, under some circumstances, may not be ideal. Just make sure your code is able to handle dups to avoid surprises later on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LN

Leonardo N.

Marketing and Analytics Professor

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/30/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"no brain and reliable message queue"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

deadly simple, fast and integrated to google cloud products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

shoukd have native integrations and connector to allow easier trigggering between systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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