# Google Compute Engine Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Auto Scaling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/auto-scaling) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 952 ## About Google Compute Engine Compute Engine is Google's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform for organizations to create and run cloud-based virtual machines. ## Google Compute Engine Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Google Compute Engine, finding it intuitive and quick for managing resources. (76 reviews) - Users value the **scalability** of Google Compute Engine, appreciating its customizable VMs and robust performance for diverse workloads. (69 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use and quick setup** of Google Compute Engine, enabling efficient development and smooth workflows. (64 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of implementation** and versatility of Google Compute Engine's features for various workloads. (58 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility and control** of Google Compute Engine for managing infrastructure and virtual machines efficiently. (54 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility** of Google Compute Engine to adjust VMs based on project needs efficiently. (50 reviews) - Integrations (49 reviews) - Performance (45 reviews) - Reliability (37 reviews) - User Interface (36 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **pricing issues** with Google Compute Engine challenging, particularly in cost management and estimation. (49 reviews) - Users find Google Compute Engine's pricing to be **expensive** , making cost estimation and access to support challenging. (45 reviews) - Users find **cost management challenging** due to unpredictable pricing and a complex interface, especially for beginners. (33 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** of the Google Compute Engine interface challenging, particularly for those new to cloud services. (30 reviews) - Users face a **steep learning curve** with Google Compute Engine, making it challenging, especially for beginners. (27 reviews) - Users often find the **pricing structure complex** , making it challenging for beginners to navigate effectively. (26 reviews) - Difficult Learning (22 reviews) - Not User-Friendly (21 reviews) - Steep Learning Curve (20 reviews) - Unexpected Costs (19 reviews) ## Google Compute Engine Reviews ### 1. My experience to Google compute engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harish K. | Senior Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** I find Google compute engine reliable and easy to use. It scales well perform efficiently and offer a Verity of option for different need. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Sometimes it's bit tricky to set up and understand especially for new user. Price can also be confusing and I wish it was clear. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provide virtual computer to cloud. It's help business to run their software without needing to own physical servers. This save money and make it easier to manage computing. ### 2. Google compute engine , An Iaas service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjana K. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** It is very useful as it gives virtual machine access to many computers at one time . Many companies are using it so that they can work on client network with this technology **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I have came across some issue which are limited visibility,there are some data loss as well **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main issues which is we can use a large number of virtual machine and there is no time limit as well It is also growing as per market requirements ### 3. The backbone of GCP - Compute **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Technical Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Compute Engine has to be the backone of all the services provided by GCP and usually the first to be adopted by anyone looking to move to the Cloud. Compute Engine are versatile VMs which are suitable for any kind of workloads and have some very good features such as OS Patching, VM Instance Groups, auto licensing of Windows, monitoring and integrated with GCP. There is also a good free tier. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Pricing of compute engine is not static and can still vary based on other factors such as disk, network usage, IPs and other factors. Compute Engine also supports only a few OS, others you would need to get from Marketplace **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We host a few self hosted applications which cannot be hosted on PaaS / CaaS or FaaS. Compute Engine is the perfect to self host a lot of different kind of workloads. Compute Engine is also very stable and has not caused any infra issues ### 4. Stable and secured Google computer engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gopal S. | Senior Director of Sales, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The scaling process is very easy with the use of google compute engine. We can balance and distribute the traffic with the help of google compute engine. Multiple security encryptions are there so data will be safe and restrict coming traffic. The customer support is good. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** User interface is completely different, it will take time to understand and the network configuration is very limited. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The scaling is done very easily with the help of google compute engine. ### 5. excellent virtual machine service from google cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pritam M. | Graphics Designer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** google cloud compute engine can be used with other google cloud servers. google cloud storage and google kubernetes engine are two examples of services that are easy to add to the platform. this lets people make apps and solutions that are more involved. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** because it doesn't always work well with other tools and services, google cloud compute engine might not be easy to use with some apps or processes. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** there had to be an easy way to set up google Oauth for our small web app that we need to protect. it was easy to set up because we used identity aware proxy and google compute engine. we didn't even have to make our own verification code. ### 6. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pushpender k. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Its very easy to set up virtual machines with Google compute engine and those virtual machines can be easily controlled from the console. It has a very easy to understand user interface. The configuration was pretty standard and it had variety of configuration options. The security provided by this is also top notch. It has great integration options. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Its not that stable compared to other cloud options and the customer support is also not that great. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its data anlysing capabilities helps us to provide better solutions. we use it to create proxy servers and websites. the virtual machines helps you to better analyse data, testing and software development. ### 7. Best compute engine in market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya J. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** It's versatility to cope up with other compute engines with the best throughput & maximize productivity of the production. It's easy to use & easy to implementing. I've used it very frequently in various types of projects and whenever I got stuck, I've reached out to customer support. As ease of Integration with other compute engines is fabulous I didn't even had to think twice before switching to other options. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** None, as I used it in various projects it didn't fail to satisfy me with its very well compute engine. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The real-time based problems which were used in the firms to solve the project problems and their benefiting factors. In terms of benefiting, it's provide an ample amount of integration factors which are very versatile in nature itself while working on compute engines. Specifically with Google computing services it's a major advantage. ### 8. I have been using GCP maps API and as you may now they are extremely useful on GIS like project **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** the usability of the maps API inside projects and the IP/domain based restriction. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I get sometimes lost on the UI, but besides that is good for me **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GIS reference in the company, it helps us to leverage google maps in your frontend and backend analysis ### 9. Google Compute Engine: A Cloud Platform for Every Need **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** I like the various services it provide to developers and for cost efficient models and also for its security. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Nothing much from services point of view, but the pricing could have been a little more detailed. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes the development cycle faster, secure and more reliable. The cost we are paying for it is less compared to other similar services. ### 10. Virtual server needs never been so easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharat L. | VAPT Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** - world class service by google - contains predefined virtual machine images - lots of customization options available -great load balancers **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** - pricing is very high - as soon as person starts using and gets addicted to the comfort provided by google, it shows the price and then the struggle starts again **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** - we used to require virtual machines with low latency and high speed processing - also we needed servers that could handle a huge load with minimum downtime - google compute engine (which google itself uses) is a most trusted service by google - it has predefined virtual machine images and option for custom images if we have any special requirement - also the load balancers are very much great to handle whatever load ### 11. It just works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Straight forward concepts, no weird names. Really fast boot, easy to understand Managed instance groups and really nice point in time recovery features **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Time to shutdown is a bit high Some features are not really straight forward and you really need to check the documentation in order to get it working. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managed instance groups allows you to forget about scaling and reduce costs drastically. ### 12. Compute Engine -- Great Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** I like compute engines versatility. It has a lot of different OS choices and they are always up to date with the newest versions. I like how compute engine also has VM schedules so you can save costs easily. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Certain features cost a lot of money even to just test for a concept. I am hoping GPU/TPUs come down in price at some point. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google compute engine allows us to provide our developer teams with virtual machines that are all identical. This allows for a easy single pane for updating anything on the devices. We also have many other use cases. ### 13. Compute at your fingertips! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** With GCE, you can easily create and manage virtual machines within the infrastructure. Thanks to a scalable number of VMs, Google Compute Engine provides you with a service that perfectly meets your needs, all at a highly competitive price. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** High expertise level. Since everything needs to be done yourself, you need someone who is highly experienced to manage and install everything, including software. ... High overhead. There are many management tools for Compute Engine, such as the App Engine and Kubernetes Engine monitoring tools. ... **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GCE Is proving on-demand compute for our workloads, it enables us to easily scale up and down ### 14. Best virtual machine service & great VM machine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kritabh K. | Packaged App Development Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The main aspect I like about virtual machines is their scalability; we can scale them up or down based on production demands. They are simple to use and install. Greatest feature being .You only get charged for the time the machine is operating, regardless of when or how powerful of a virtual computer you've established. thus use frequently **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I think the technical hoard and management needs to be upgrade its functionality.I find linking the Apache server to the cloud is challenging, but everything else works perfectly. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It creates and operate virtual machines using our secure and configurable compute service.Also used to host a range of services, including as tiny websites, proxy servers, and ancillary services. ### 15. It was a good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman D. | Cyber Security Specialist Instructor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Quick deployment And range of different operating systems **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Sometime it is quite complex to navigate at time **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying cloud solutions ### 16. Powerful and versatile cloud computing platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Hernani C. | Co-Founder & CTO, Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** GCE is a compelling choice for businesses seeking a cloud-based infrastructure that can handle demanding workloads as it is easy to use and implement. It ensures consistent performance and integrates seamlessly with their existing tech stack. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Its complexity in the pricing structure, potential for egress charges, limited support for third-party tools, potential vendor lock-in, and limited customization options require careful consideration before adoption. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simplifies DevOps and Continuous Integration coz it integrates with DevOps tools and continuous integration (CI) pipelines, automating the deployment and management of our applications. This automation streamlines DevOps processes and reduces the risk of errors. ### 17. Flexible, scaleable computing for any need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The ability to spin up any kind of OS ; Use managed or manual instance groups to enable scalability and healing; the control I have on any kind of HW, network, and the ability to change it at any time. DRP procedures are easy as well. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I would say the licensing restrictions around windows machines (Win server , Win 11) and the inability to use KMS should be reexamined so clients with KMS can use their licenses somehow. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to not have our system on premise, the DB to not be on the disk and the ability to scale. ### 18. Power of Google Compute Engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suhail A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The program of Google Compute Engine is very easy. The thing i like the most is that operating system Login API which i personally think the best thing. And also the pricing part is also too good you have to pay only for what you use. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Nothing get any trouble yet. Still using very smoothly. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Cloud SDK we creating VM in Google Compute Engine. Google compute Engine is best for ML. Very easy to set. ### 19. It was very accurate. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The efficiency that it has and the large range of options. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** At firts the creation of VM was not intuitive. I have to spend a bit of time to master it. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The need of GPU. It benefits me with these service. ### 20. Virtual Machine to run workload !! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kanchan D. | Marketing Automation Analyst , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The best thing which i like about Google Compute Engine is that we can configure our VPN network to manage our traffic for our application, it has secure and reliable infrasture which provide more security, That's the main thing which we are lookig for. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I did not find even a single thing which i dislike about Google Compute Engine, All features are great and reliable. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google compute Engine allows remote collaboration and fulfilling server need at prsesnt across all organization, it also solves the theft challenges that any of the company faces regarding their internal data. ### 21. Cost effective and simple tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The best feature which i like about the Google Compute Enginee is that it is very fexible in term of memory and easy to use for a new user, it is best suited in the environment of Testing, Development and Experiment one can use it without hasitation. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** There are some complexities in term of configration and cost of bandwidth is somewhere i feel high. These are the two cons. which i observe in GCE. otherwise its good. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GCE is offering pre configured template which is the best feature i like in it also security control features are the one which is benefiting me and my organization so that we can dependent upon Google Compute Engine ### 22. Reliable infrastructure for computing needs **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjeev M. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Optimising the virtualisation spend & Build in data analytics **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Difficult to integrate with other virtualisation tools **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tool to automate the deployments and management of various virtual machine at one time. ### 23. Simplicity is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karl A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Google comoute engine simply just makes sense. I like how easy it is to create and how closely it relates to the traditional ways of doing things. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Not enough flavors of compuet engine offerings. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use google compooute engine to scale our clients needs. We also use this to build self managed clusters for ttesting and validation of products. ### 24. Compute Engine is easier to implement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Visha W. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** It is easier to manage and migrate between the instances and very easy to iam with access **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** the cost is expotentially higher as you go and it is pain to scale between the instances also the console is not good **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is good to migrate quickly from AWS to Google compute engine and also it is efficient to upgrade ### 25. Well, it works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Google Compute Engine works great for us for different type of workloads. We scale very well across different instance types, and different price classes, and well it works. We are constantly testing different instance families, and it is a very stable service. Very well recommend. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** From a different provider, we had the option to customize pools for spot instances in order to switch between different instance families when spot availability shrinks. That would be a nice feature to have. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling our business on the cloud. Provides the workhorse to run the different workloads types that we run ### 26. Open Cloud Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek Y. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The interface and configuration of Google Compute Engine is very adaptable and easy to understand and runs very smoothly by which a new learner will also be able to use this without having any problems. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Somewhere Google Compute Engine does not provide access to third party tool services which they should offer which can be used to complete the project without breaking the workflow. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I will say that with the help of Google Compute Engine i save my lot of time because it is reliable and time saving and also not seen any issue reported till now. ### 27. Deployment and testing made Easy : S4 HANA Project **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Two priminent reasons why we decided to go with GCE for our complete Deployment,SIT and UAT for our S4 HANA Implementation project is it's scalability which helps in resources allocation and thus optimising cost and time. Another reason is it's seamless integration with SAP Solutions. Setting up of testing environments and Data Transports was done so smoothly **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** With SAP it was seamless integration but Infrastructure team faced issue when trying to integrate with other 3rd party apps such as BW, VIM etc **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auto Scaling and robust security which is very important when comes to dealing with large clients in an GxP environment ### 28. As per my past experiences I've found the Google compute engine very user friendly. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sri v. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Very developer friendly, if you know what you're its very easy to get started on the process. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Its a bit unintuitive at times, especially if you have less experience, then its kind of hard to get started, but this is a universal problem. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick validations and cloud deployments of any microservice as well as investigation of any isssues. ### 29. It was a great experience I loved the problem product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhil G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The best advantage was that it was easy to use and the way I could run my machine virtually was a great plus. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** The cost and traffic issue was the only dislike I had with it. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solve the scaling purpose of my machines ### 30. The back up system is really good for the users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swati S. | Process Lead (North America Hiring) , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The backup systems is really good for the users. It can be used for the big products and search engine. The stability is good and offers migration between host and users. The durability of google compute engine is good. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** The process of auto scaling is very slow. An expert can use it only as it requires installation and configuration. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The durability of google compute engine is good. ### 31. Best engine ever used in cloud domain **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank M. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Its very fast and so relaible that even the engine cost according to the usage. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Little bit cost should get low as per high amount of usage. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autoscaling is the main target for us due to live streaming data. ### 32. Very simple, straightforward and high quality environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The simplicity of use and ability to project and manage costs. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** None come to mind. GCE meets the needs that I have for my organization. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** For many of my applications I need virtual machines and cannot leverage Cloud native technologies. GCE provides the simplest and most cost effective way for me to do that. ### 33. GKE is well optimized **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** We use Google compute engine primarily for depploying our applications on GCP and log monitoring on the cluster. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** As of now I do see gemini AI part of the Google compute engine, so there is nothing to complain about. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us on migrating huge sets of data from multi cloud and on premise. ### 34. Be mindful of the defaults **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** GCE is easy to configure and allow customers ti deploy VMs quickly. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I do not like that the default service account has the editor role. This role can be exploited unless a policy constraint is configured to block the usage of default service accounts **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GCE is allowing my organization to use VertexAI notebooks ### 35. I love the Managed Instance Groups for building AI/ML Tooling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Managed Instance Groups and Pre-emptable instances being able to scale to traffic and workloads while keeping costs low. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Generally, not much, but if I would have to say one thing it would be the UI and accessing VM logs. Which is why I use Terraform to manage deployments. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GCE helps me get health status and scale up/down my VMs during the usage lifecycle thanks to the MIGs features. In doing so, I have been able to manage my company's internal tooling applications and oversee the health of their compute instances. ### 36. My experience with GCP was amazing except for a few minor issues which can be easily sorted out **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The scaling and disk duplication options are pretty easy and straightforward. The initial setup time is pretty low as well .Sometimes i would login from mobile itself to conduct basic tasks . Scaling up and down within your alloted sphere is pretty quick . **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** We have to contact customer support to scale above a certain threshold of cpu and gpu . It wasnt readily available . **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GCP allowed me to work online with high powered machines , meeting all my data science needs . Since all my data is online i wasnt dependant one particular piece of hardware and this increased safety as well and also shareability among colleagues . ### 37. VM review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpita P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** We could choose any instance on Google Compute which is so convinient. We can control the cost of project based on start/stop instance. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Not really any as it provides the scalability that we require for our projects. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of on-premise server purchase we are using this for our projects to save cost. ### 38. Multiple Operating System Manage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gopal S. | Account Manager, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The process of scaling is easier, distribution and balancing of incoming and outgoing traffic is also fast. Security encryption features are good. Multiple number of operating systems can be handled. The customer support is good. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** User interface is tricky only experts can work. The networking and the configuration part is less and limited. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auto scaling done very easily and it's seemless process. ### 39. feedback google cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor P. | payroll specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** I can securely store all my data or photos and if I want more memory I can pay for more storage, this application does not give me much security and leaves me calm because I know that my information will never be lost. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** the payment issue is understandable but they could give a few months free when you buy space. many applications use this type of commercial techniques and build customer loyalty as they see that by trusting the product they give you several months free of charge **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps us with all the storage issues of our company and also on a personal level as it is where I keep and trust all my information and data. ### 40. GCE is very easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giridhar S. | Senior Cloud Architect - Kubernetes, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Easy user experience and IAC experience and template experience **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** It will be nice if there is an option to use GCE with predefined templates ready to be used via Terraform provider **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our GKE clusters are using Google Compute Engine and we are planning to use GCE for building Kubernetes using Kubeadm ### 41. Eco friendly compute engines **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Divya V. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Eco friendly and easy to use,even people who don't know much about it also can learn **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Nothing, everything is perfect and good. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buying servers ,with pay on use we get alot of cost effectiveness ### 42. Google compute engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruv G. | Sales Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** Google compute engine is easy to set up and easy to use. We use it for both testing and development. It is very reliable. the documentation is very easy. Its a very robust system which creates virtual machines easily. We use it daily for development and testing. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** As the name suggests its a complete cloud solutions which means everything is stored on cloud which means its less secure than on premises system. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes our work easier virtual machines are very helpful. It is highly customisable according to the customer needs. ### 43. Google Cloud for Parcel Data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** I experimented with spinning up a instance to deploy a cloud mapping api along with a psqsql database to hold parcel data. This was reallly easy. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** The user access was confusing. For the Pssql instance, the network connectivitity was a bit confusing. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just the core issue, I needed virtual infrastructure, ### 44. Good for coders, but a bit expensive for some. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harmandeep Singh M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The Google client SDK and the cloud console are very helpful. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** Template generation for Google cloud machine does not always work. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I would like to use Google's SDK to manage VM's. But I'm interested in Windows VM as well which are pricier than azure. ### 45. Great Offering of Infrastructure as a Code IaaC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier Z. | Technical Support Engineer at NetApp, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The process to create instances/containers is straight forward. The ability to use cloud shell to deploy the workloads in a very intuitive command line should meed advanced users as well **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** The user interface is a bit flat when compared to other providers, but it is not really that bad **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We deploy various workloads to support business operations in the organization. A VPN server and four DNS servers ### 46. Best Virtual Machine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robin S. | Sr. Technical Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** It allows users to scale computing resources up and down based on demand. It seamlessly integrates with other services offered by GCP. It is easy to learn and use. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** It primarily focuses on modern, cloud-native applications and may have limited support for legacy systems. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its autoscaling capabilities allow my organization to manage fluctuating workloads and seasonal spikes in demand. ### 47. One of the most cost effective ways to support large scale GKE deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Garin K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** the availability of resources per region/zone and the integration between products and the engine itself **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I dont have a lot of dislikes, but the documentation feels stagnant compared to feature development **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** horizontal scaling of virtual machines and GKE clusters solving the need to overly monitor capacity ### 48. The processing is faster, when shifted to Clud Run the APIs are executing faster. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaya Deepika S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The Google Compute Engine resources are faster and quicker . I like the cusotm APIs executing faster using the compute engine resources. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** I would like to know the min max instances much mpore userfriendly. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It would solve the scaling issues that i have in onpremise today ### 49. Great Product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** - Makes it easy to create new cloud instance **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** - Understanding which instance makes the most sense, based on cost and performance can be a challenge **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Google cloud allows us to scale up compute instances on demand, without worrying about running out of resources ### 50. A WONDERFUL VM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aniket S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?** The Integrations of Google Compute Engine is Very good and its Data Migration Feature is also good for our organization and it is easy to use and deployment of that tool is also Very simple. **What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?** The Cost of GCE quite high and in starting we need a professional trainer to train this software to other employees, rest of this all is very good. **What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software helps to get out from real time based problems and it is for granted for our organization and THE name is in it GOOGLE it mean we can trust this software. ## Google Compute Engine Discussions - [What is a compute instance?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-compute-instance) - 2 comments, 2 upvotes - [Is Google Compute Engine PaaS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-google-compute-engine-paas) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What does Google Compute Engine do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-google-compute-engine-do) - 4 comments, 1 upvote - [Can I get the manual to understand the different features of it ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-i-get-the-manual-to-understand-the-different-features-of-it) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Feature Max Limit and Partnership](https://www.g2.com/discussions/feature-max-limit-and-partnership) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Google Compute Engine pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews?open_modal_url=%2Fproducts%2Fgoogle-compute-engine%2Fwishlists%3Fhost_path%3D%252Fproducts%252Fgoogle-compute-engine%252Freviews%26source%3Dpdp_avatar&page=6§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-20+02%3A32%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5efb3320-6748-472a-8c20-1e6f7130c974&secure%5Btoken%5D=2fb46eb6c729a8616848134790d7140b5b16de6a744e5739bcf2abb668610f5e&format=llm_user) ## Google Compute Engine Integrations - 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Scalability - Portability - Data Recovery **Automated resource scaling** - Automatic resource discovery - Smart scaling **Management** - Cloud Cost Analytics - Cloud Security - Cloud Resource Management - Cloud Backup and Recovery **Management** - Pay by Usage - Usage Tracking - Performance Tracking **Functionality** - OS Integration - Resource Saving - Performance Management - Security **Scaling strategies** - Pre-defined optimization strategies - Predictive scaling **Functionality** - Resource Auto-Scaling **Visualization** - Unified scaling - Dashboard **Agentic AI - Cloud Management Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Server Virtualization** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Google Compute Engine Alternatives - [Azure Virtual Machines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-machines/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (375 reviews) - 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