Azure Cloud Services vs. Google App Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Cloud Services
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Azure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring…N/A
Google App Engine
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Google 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.
$0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Pricing
Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle App Engine
Editions & Modules
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Starting Price
$0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Max Price
$0.30
Per Hour Per Instance
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle App Engine
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle App Engine
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Cloud Services
9.0
Ratings
12% above category average
Google App Engine
8.7
Ratings
9% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces8.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Scalability9.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Platform management overhead9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability8.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Platform access control9.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration9.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Development environment creation9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Development environment replication9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Issue recovery8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes9.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle App Engine
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.3
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Usability
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7.7
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Performance
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10.0
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Support Rating
-
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8.4
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Implementation Rating
-
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Azure Cloud ServicesGoogle App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
I like the security provided by Microsoft Cloud Platform that gives us comfort that our Clouds data and applications are safe and secure with excellent backups and recovery capabilities and our entire organization depend on this platform for effective data migration. The system integrations with this platform are highly intuitive with the ease to customize its API and excellent performance monitoring capability to all our Clouds applications.
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Google App Engine is especially well suited for situations where there is a variable workload during the day, e.g. inbound task processing with task queues. In this situation queues can be setup with parameters governing the process speed/scaling which allows you to easily balance performance with cost and meet a good balance.
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Pros
  • Azure excels in providing scalable infrastructure and services. For example, organizations can use Azure Virtual Machines to dynamically adjust computing resources based on demand.
  • Azure's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, such as Azure App Service, empower developers to focus on building applications without dealing with the underlying infrastructure.
  • Azure seamlessly integrates with on-premises environments, facilitating a hybrid cloud approach.
  • Azure Functions allows organizations to execute code in a serverless environment, triggering functions in response to events without the need to provision or manage servers.
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  • Building an application that uses Google's Authentication, means users no longer need to remember an different user id and password. Once they are logged into to Google, they can seamlessly access your application hosted on Google App Engine.
  • Google App Engine automatically scales up and down. SO if your application receives a spike in user traffic, App Engine automatically launches additional instances of your application to cater for the increased traffic. Once App Engine detects that the spike is usage is over, it automatically scales down to handle the current traffic.
  • Google App Engine can be easily integrated with Google Cloud SQL, Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage etc, so that you can build out a full application using one or more of Google's Cloud Platform products.
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Cons
  • Azure MySQL single server to flexible server migration
  • Database Migration Services
  • Azure VMs
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  • For beginners, there is a learning curve that can be reduced by decluttering the functionalities.
  • For much big migrations it takes to a lot of time to deploy which can be reduced.
  • The scaling of applications based on the user count is not seamless and it requires improvement.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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.
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Usability
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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.
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Support Rating
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
I feel AWS offers a robust and versatile platform for cloud infrastructure and services. It's scalability, reliability array of tools make it a top choice for businesses of all sizes. AWS has better open source communities such as Linux, Jenkins and GitHub in comparison to Azure service cloud
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App Engine is a much more streamlined system than EC2. There is a fundamental difference between them, but they are used for basically the same thing as far a I could tell -- to serve applications EC2 is certainly more complicated, but if offers more machine-level control if that's what you need. It can tend to cost more as well. App Engine is far more straightforward but there are limitations if you need to change the environment. But even then, Google Compute Engine also compares to EC2 and stays within GCP.
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Return on Investment
  • Remote data accessibility via the platform is effective.
  • Data security through the system is guaranteed.
  • Easy data recovery solution.
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  • App Engine can scale basically infinitely so our users can always expect fast responsiveness.
  • App Engine has saved us money by only using the resources we need when we need them.
  • The security and IAM policies surrounding App Engine have saved a lot of head aches.
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