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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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99 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
- Respectful
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Tushar K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Owns the market
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Cloud from other similar products?
I’ve been working with Google Cloud for 2 years now, and I really like how smooth it feels. The UI is clean and easy to set up. Especially when working with complex deployments or experimenting with AI features like Google Vertex, the experience feels seamless. Compared to other platforms like AWS, it feels less complicated and much more beginner-friendly.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like the most about Google Cloud is how well everything works together. Services like BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and Vertex AI just connect smoothly, which makes work so much easier. I also like the built-in security and identity features—things like IAM and VPC are easy to manage once you get familiar with it. Really like the distributed tracing feature and how easy it is to implement it into your application. The traces generated are very helpful and informative. The documentation is usually clear.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The thing I find a bit frustrating is that sometimes the naming and structure of the services can be a little confusing and overwhelming, especially when you’re trying to explore something new. Also, some features feel a bit hidden unless you already know where exactly to look for.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend to start with the free tier and explore the services you actually need. Services like Cloud Run, BigQuery, or Cloud Storage are free up to a limit. Switching to paid tier makes sense when your project starts growing, as it unlocks higher usage limits and more advanced features like custom machine types in Compute Engine, auto-scaling deployments, advanced data analytics. In my opinion, Google Cloud offers the best of the market.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Jonathan P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Cloud SQL is a Managed Database
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Cloud from other similar products?
Our 20-person company has a website that uses a mysql database. we used to run the database ourselves on a server, and it was always a pain to manage backups and updates. we moved to cloud sql.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
now, google manages the database for us. it does automatic backups and it's easy to set up a high-availability replica for failover. it gives me so much peace of mind knowing our database is being professionally managed.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is more expensive than running the database yourself. you are paying a premium for the convenience and the management. the cost for a high-availability instance can be quite high.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you don't want to be a database administrator, cloud sql is worth the extra cost.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Less Effective Service
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Souvik G.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2025
Google Cloud - The Master Storage
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Cloud from other similar products?
It is seamless , integrated and makes things much more efficient
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The favourite aspect is that it does allow me to upload files locally , do multiple things at one go, cross functionally see each others entities and contribute in a team
What do you dislike most about this product?
The files are rather difficult to find and sometimes feel rather unorganzied and buried
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would rather recommend it to someone who is looking to manage a small with the entire google infrastructure in place
Pros
- Effective Service
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
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