Adobe Experience Platform vs. Google Compute Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Experience Platform
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
The Adobe Experience Platform is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) serving as the foundation of the Adobe Experience Cloud, and is provided as a customer experience management platform with real-time customer profiles, continuous intelligence, and an open and extensible architecture that enables delivering personalized experiences at scale.N/A
Google Compute Engine
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Google Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product from Google Cloud. It provides virtual machines with carbon-neutral infrastructure which run on the same data centers that Google itself uses.
$0.01
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Pricing
Adobe Experience PlatformGoogle Compute Engine
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Preemptible Price - Predefined Memory
0.000892 / GB
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Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
$0.001907 / GB
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One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
$0.002669 / GB
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On-demand price - Predefined Memory
$0.004237 / GB
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Preemptible Price - Predefined vCPUs
0.006655 / vCPU
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Three-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
$0.014225 / CPU
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One-year commitment price - Predefined vCPUS
$0.019915 / vCPU
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On-demand price - Predefined vCPUS
$0.031611 / vCPU
Hour
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Experience PlatformGoogle Compute Engine
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrices vary according to region (i.e US central, east, & west time zones). Google Compute Engine also offers a discounted rate for a 1 & 3 year commitment.
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Features
Adobe Experience PlatformGoogle Compute Engine
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Experience Platform
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Ratings
Google Compute Engine
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Experience PlatformGoogle Compute Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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7.6
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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Usability
7.0
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9.0
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Availability
-
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8.6
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Performance
-
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8.4
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Support Rating
8.0
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe Experience PlatformGoogle Compute Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
I think AEP is ahead of its competitors when it comes to hosting customer data for various use cases. It’s seamless integration with other Adobe products like AJO or CJA make it a very compelling overall package.
It may not be very applicable for smaller or medium sized businesses. There could be an opportunity for Adobe to bring in a trimmed down version for such customers.
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It is excellent if you have any workloads that need raw computing or plan to have any state-full services running in your environment like DBs (for which you don't want to use Managed services), cache, etc. It also gives you complete control over which versions of software, OS, etc., you need, and thus, you can build anything and deploy it on GCE.
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Pros
  • Host online/offline data with common IDs
  • Ease of profile activation to destinations
  • Flexibility around how many sources and destinations can be used to move data
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  • A simple web-based interface that is a breeze to train new engineers to use. Our experienced engineers never have trouble finding or doing anything on GCE.
  • Sustained use and Committed use discounts mean we get top-tier VMs for an incredibly competitive price.
  • Wonderful identity and access management that gives us peace-of-mind when granting access to machines to contractors and other 3rd parties.
  • Fast VMs, lastest in hardware, and enough RAM to power even the hungriest of our services.
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Cons
  • You need to be well trained and resourced to use the product
  • Features and integration work but often times you need to pay Adobe consultants for help
  • Not transparent in their pricing per customer
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  • The L7 load balancer can be difficult to get set up. It's limited in its functionality, especially with the container engine.
  • It's hard to find certain objects on the web console. Often times the things I need to get to are buried in advanced menus.
  • Google's decision to only support MySQL on their relational DB service means that I have to manage Postgres instances in Compute on my own, managing everything from storage to backups.
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Likelihood to Renew
It is useful when executed properly
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Its pretty good, easy and good performance. Also, interface is very good for starters compared to competitors. Infra as Code (IaC) using Terraform even added easiness for creation, management and deletion of compute Virtual Machines (VM). Overall, very good and very easy cloud based compute platform which simplified infrastructure, very much recommend.
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Usability
AEP works very well with the entire Adobe suite of products and services making it a must-have product from a marketing standpoint. The fact that you are able to understand the customer and have a better impact with the customer journey is really helpful. We have also used AEP data to cross sell products to our customers through email campaigns/ offers m/ advertising etc but to have all this data stored in a single place makes it very convenient.
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Having interacted with several cloud services, GCE stands out to me as more usable than most. The naming and locating of features is a little more intuitive than most I've interacted with, and hinting is also quite helpful. Getting staff up to speed has proven to be overall less painful than others.
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Reliability and Availability
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Google Compute Engine works well for cloud project with lesser geographical audience. It sometimes gives error while everything is set up perfectly. We also keep on check any updates available because that's one reason of site getting down. Google Compute Engine is ultimately a top solution to build an app and publish it online within a few minutes
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Performance
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The raw computer power is excellent; our applications feel snappy, pages load almos instantly for our customers and so on. The primary reason it is not a perfect 10 is that the native tools for monitoring individual VM performance can be complex, making it challenging to easily diagnose specific resource bottlenecks without significant configuration
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Support Rating
Adobe has support at all levels and for each product but beyond tool questions you'll often be told they can help but it requires some paid consulting hours. So you either hire Adobe consultants or find 3rd part consultants who know their products well.
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  • The documentation needs to be better for intermediate users - There are first steps that one can easily follow, but after that, the documentation is often spotty or not in a form where one can follow the steps and accomplish the task. Also, the documentation and the product often go out of sync, where the commands from the documentation do not work with the current version of the product.
  • Google support was great and their presence on site was very helpful in dealing with various issues.
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Alternatives Considered
In most cases we have found Adobe products to be harder to use but offer a lot more capabilities. In some cases Adobe products are missing key, basic functions. Adobe does offer a more holistic toolset rather than buying pieces of the puzzle and having to integrate on your own but that results in paying for a higher price tag.
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When configuring Amazon ECS, it is a bit confusing as you are not able to find the actual issue. You need to enable Additional AppInsights to get detailed level info, which is not a concern when configuring on the Instance Level. Moreover, Azure VM does not provide an in-browser option; instead, it is Azure Bastion, but for that, you have to enable a dedicated subnet, which is a bit unnecessary.
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Scalability
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It works really well with other Google Cloud services, making it easy to build scalable solutions across different teams and locations.
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Return on Investment
  • The platform has allowed us to mature into digital spaces we couldn't otherwise have experienced
  • Contract pricing went up yearly on some products by 200%
  • We were able to consolidate email tools to save on yearly contract expenses
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  • Scalability means flexibility and less upfront costs
  • Can become expensive when hard set compute requirements are clear, but things like Spot VMs can help here too, or just having your own infrastructure and scaling up with Google. This is for more advanced cases though
  • Ramp up time is long, but after that it is quick to do many things and ROI is awesome
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