Name: Google Cloud Platform
Rating: 4.6 (1621 reviews)

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Product Information on Google Cloud Platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Google Cloud Platform?

Google Cloud Platform is a software that offers a suite of cloud computing services, including infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and serverless computing environments. It provides tools for computing, storage, networking, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The software supports the deployment and scaling of applications and services on a highly available and secure global infrastructure. It enables organizations to manage workloads, develop and run applications, and analyze large volumes of data to address business challenges such as resource optimization, faster time-to-market, and scalability for enterprise and developer needs.

Overall experience with Google Cloud Platform

Software Developer

250M - 500M USD, Banking

FAVORABLE

“Secret Management and File Handling Improved With Google Cloud and UiPath Integration”

5.0

Mar 2, 2026

Honestly, as an RPA Developer, using Google Cloud with UiPath has been a total game changer for my workflows, even if the initial setup felt a bit like a maze. Connecting to the Google Cloud buckets is super smooth once you get the service account permissions right—it beats manually moving files around any day. And honestly, having the Secret Manager integrated is a massive relief because I don't have to worry about hardcoding sensitive stuff or messing with local config files that everyone ends up seeing. There's definitely a bit of a learning curve with the APIs and making sure the authentication doesnt time out mid-process, but once its running, it's rock solid.

Technical Content Writer

50M - 250M USD, IT Services

CRITICAL

“Models and AI Capabilities Fall Short of Expected Results and Performance”

3.0

Feb 26, 2026

Not Seeing Appropriate Results for the Models and AI Capabilities as we had expected from it.

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Strategic Cloud Platform Services

About Company

Company Description

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1998

Head office location

Mountain View, CA, United States

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

www.google.com

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Google Cloud Platform Likes & Dislikes

1. Integration with secret manager in rpa means I never have to worry about passwords in plain text... It's basically the gold standard for keeping your bots compliant without making your life difficult. 2. GCP Buckets are way more reliable than local folders or mapped drives. Yole production run.ou can dump millions of files in there and the bot won't even blink, plus the versioning on files has saved my skin more than once. 3. Since you're already in GCP, it's super easy to plug in other cool stuff like Google Vision or Vertex AI to make your bots smarter without having to jump through a million hoops.

Speed, and Response Times

One of its biggest strengths is how well it integrates Google's wider ecosystem, which makes things like server-side Google Tag Manager and Google Ads API integration straightforward to set up and maintain. The managed services model is also a big plus, as it allows small applications and services to run without needing to worry about infrastructure managaement. It also scales well and feels reliable once deployed, with good monitoring and logging available when needed. Pricing is generally predictable for smaller workloads, which makes it easy to justify for focused use cases.

1.Setting up the Service Account permissions and JSON keys can be a total nightmare the first time. If you miss one tiny IAM role the whole thing just throws a cryptic error that takes forever to debug. 2. Sometimes the UiPath.GSuite.Activities pack can be a bit buggy. Ive seen Studio freeze up or activities just stop seeing the bucket names for no reason until you restart the whole app... I had to make my own costume libraries to avoid this issue 3. If you're dealing with massive files, the connection can sometimes drop mid-transfer. You have to build in a lot of Retry logic to make sure a 2-second lag doesn't kill your whole production run.

Quality Issues with Content Produced, and Imperfect Results

The interface can feel a bit cluttered and not always intuitive, especially if you only use a subset of services. Finding the right settings or understanding how services connect together sometimes takes longer than expected. Documentation is extensive but can be fragmented, and it's not always clear which approach is considered best practice. It can also feel like the platform assumes a fairly technical user, which makes it less accessible for teams that only need to run a few small services.

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Director of IT

I have conducted my own investigation and analysis using native cloud platform tooling, applying the Technology Business Management (TBM) taxonomy, and LeanIX, to help understand cloud costs. Apptio is another product I was looking at as well to help improve cloud costs. Apptio is easily integrated with LeanIX. https://www.apptio.com/products/ibm-apptio/ https://www.leanix.net/en/enterprise-architecture/integrations#apptio Cloudability is AppTio’s FinOps certified platform to enable cloud cost optimization efforts: https://www.apptio.com/products/cloudability/ My opinion is that I don’t trust independent third-party’s (consultants) to take an unbiased approach nor even have an effective diligent approach. I have had average to poor experiences with third-party’s that management in my previous organization brought in to conduct an investigation. Given good tooling and a decent budget I think you are better off creating your own cloud centre of excellence that follows best practices for workload cost management and optimization. Lastly, I read the recent post from Curt Hodge on that question, he is recommending PointFive. I had a look at PointFive’s website information and I would agree with Curt’s recommendation to take a closer look at the PointFive solution https://www.pointfive.co/ however at first glance they seem to be AWS focused and there is no mention of GCP integration.

CIO

check the below links: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery-tables/standard-usage#tags https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/pipelines/understand-pipeline-cost-labels#view_pipeline_resources_cost

50M-1B USD

Banking

Review Source

Secret Management and File Handling Improved With Google Cloud and UiPath Integration

Senior Digital Analytics Manager

1B-10B USD

Retail

GCP Simplifies Small Application Hosting But Interface Can Be Challenging

4.0

Overall, our experience with GCP has been positive for targeted workloads like server-side tagging and API integrations. It's a flexible platform that makes it relatively straightforward to host lightweight services without needing to manage infrastructure directly. It feels reliable and integrates naturally with the wider Google ecosystem, which is a big advantage for marketing and analytics use cases. That said, the platform can feel slightly uneven in places, particularly in the interface and navigation, which sometimes makes simple tasks harder than they need to be.

IT ASSOCIATE

<50M USD

IT Services

"Scalable, Developer-Friendly Cloud Platforms with strong Data & AI Capabilities"

We have been using Google cloud platform to run production-grade applications and backend services at scale. Overall, the platform has been reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly. Deployment speed, managed services, and integration with modern tooling worked very well for our use case. However, cost predictability and billing transparency can sometimes be challenging, especially during rapid scaling. Support response quality varies depending on the plant tier. That said, for high-growth environments and modern architectures, GCP has delivered strong performance and flexibility.

DATA ANALYTICS MANAGER

Google Cloud Platform is a good hub to some products and tools that help you but has some issues in documentation and forecasting cost of products.

Dec 17, 2025

It's a great suite to improve the centralization of your data, acting also as a marketplace to purchase and deploy a lot of add-ons tools or programs to make your process easier.

It Security & Risk Management Associate

Consumer Goods

Reliable & Engineering-First Product

Jan 27, 2026

Our organization has gone all-in on the Google ecosystem, from Workspace to GCP for heavy lifting in data and infrastructure. Google is reliable, innovative and offers fair prices for small entities when it comes to its product. My overall experience is quite positive, particularly regarding the speed of innovation and managed services. Gemini and Vertex AI are closing the gap and starting to lead in Agentic AI ops with google.