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    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps users maintain application availability and allows users to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to definable conditions.N/A

    Google App Engine

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

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    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingGoogle App Engine
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    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingGoogle App Engine
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingGoogle App Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
    AWS UI's are better to use. They are cleaner. Azure UI looks crowded. AWS instance is faster than Azure. Load balancer emphases in AWS is useful.
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    Google
    Chose Google App Engine
    We prefer Google App Engine over Linode when need to hosting applications for R&D and Testing. Since the deployment has much less configuration.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingGoogle App Engine
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Google App Engine
    Feature
    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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    Ratings
    Google App Engine
    8.7
    31 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.027 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings9.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingGoogle App Engine
    Small Businesses
    .NET
    Score8.8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    AWS Auto Scaling
    Score9.2 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Apache HTTP Server
    Score8.4 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If you need to establish a system right away, in the past it took weeks or months to request a quote from the vendor and receive the equipment. Now, with Amazon EC2 in less than tens of minutes or hours, you can create a test environment and test it without any inconvenience.
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    Google
    App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Dynamic scaling can be configured to respond to a wide variety of metrics and alerts
    • Predictive scaling allows one to get ahead of high traffic events rather than simply reacting to them
    • Health checks are configurable based on the needs of your application and architecture
    Incentivized
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    Google
    • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
    • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
    • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Sometimes, Auto scaling takes time to spin up your instances if your traffic is so high in short span of time.
    • And, Auto scaling can be more efficient if we have only Load balancer in our architecture.
    • It has some limitations on setting up the Auto scaling infra.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
    • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
    • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Usability is good since we already know how AWS works. For those that are new it might be a little bit confusing at the beginning but they are improving it at a fast pace. Even though AWS keeps changing the user interface constantly, it is still powerful, understandable and easy to use. For technical people, they still offer the CLI.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    Google App Engine is very intuitive. It has the common programming language most would use. Google is a dependable name and I have not had issues with their servers being down....ever. You can safely use their service and store your data on their servers without worrying about downtime or loss of data.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The platform works as is. The help and tutorials on the help page can help you to setup the entire platform without problems, and also provides help on a huge variety of problems. Amazon also provides support plans. We have the basic support plan, but Amazon offers three support tiers, and we know that it works perfect.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    On the servers with fixed resources, Microsoft IIS was installed. In terms of storage capacity, the server has a predetermined limit. It's possible to run out of money before the next billing cycle begins. A higher price tag or more resources may be necessary to ensure everything works as expected. Oracle Compute Instance Autoscaling works like AWS once. But AWS EC2 Autoscaling has many more configuration options. AWS EC2 Automatic Scaling eliminates the need to visit the server and assess its performance physically.
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    Google
    We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • There is no need to maintain infrastructural equipment.
    • There is no need to switch the electricity off or on in the case of a legitimate power outage.
    • The system frequently had issues when turned on, and labor frequently continued on all night, but by transferring to the cloud, that effort might be spared.
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    Google
    • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
    • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
    • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
    • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
    Incentivized
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