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Google Cloud Platform

byGoogle
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4.6
2025
Market Presence: Strategic Cloud Platform Services, Network Security Microsegmentation

Overview

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.

Google Cloud Platform Pricing

Google Cloud Platform software uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on actual resource usage, including compute, storage, and networking. The software provides options for on-demand and committed use contracts, allowing for flexibility in billing according to usage and commitment levels. Pricing varies by individual service and region and is calculated per-second or per-hour, depending on the specific service selected.

Overall experience with Google Cloud Platform

DIRECTOR, LEARNING PLATFORMS & UX
250M - 500M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“GCP offre une gamme de services riche, fiable et performante, même si certains points restent perfectibles”

4.0
Dec 2, 2025
Utilisant GCP depuis désormais 4 années, nous avons été agréablement surpris de voir l'évolution de la plateforme au fil des ans. Les quelques retards et manquements des débuts ont depuis été largement rattrapés, au point que l'offre puisse aujourd'hui concurrencer sérieusement les concurrents directs. La plateforme au global reste bien organisée, et parvient à maintenir dans la plupart des cas d'utilisation une navigation fluide, et ce malgré le nombre important de services disponibles. En terme de performances, il est bon de noter que les disruptions de service restent rares.
OFFICE MANAGER
<50M USD, Transportation
CRITICAL

“Implementation of Google Cloud had teething problems but overall fit our organization.”

3.0
Sep 12, 2025
The Google Cloud was implemented at work. Though initial teething problems, we achieved better and larger storage for our data.

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2025
For Market:
Strategic Cloud Platform Services

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

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

Updated 11th November 2024
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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Performance of Google Cloud Platform Across Market Features

Google Cloud Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

Comme évoqué précédemment, nous apprécions le panel très large de fonctionnalités offert par GCP. Il est arrivé plus d'une fois qu'un usage jusqu'alors négligé soit finalement la réponse à une de nos nouvelles problématiques. Cela rend la plateforme extrêmement polyvalente, et nous l'utilisons aujourd'hui pour des usages aussi variés que le stockage, le stockage de données, l'hébergement d'applications web, le déploiement d'applications serverless, et le déploiement ad-hoc de machines virtuelles sur Compute Engine. L'ensemble de ces services dispose d'un haut niveau de granularité dans les paramètres, et rend nos implémentations facilement personnalisables.

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Like

Google Cloud provided us the tools for our data storage as our previous was outdated. The integration of the product was pretty smooth into our current system. The security of the Google Cloud seems very trustworthy.

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Like

What I like most about Google Cloud Platform is its reliability and flexibility in managing infrastructure.The platform provides strong networking capabilities,advanced IAM controls,and seamless scalability across multiple regions.The integration with monitoring and logging tools like Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging also makes it easy to maintain visibility and control over the entire environment.

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Dislike

Certaines interfaces seraient à revoir, car elles sont parfois assez peu intuitives, notamment dans les réglages réseau. C'est certainement le prix à payer lorsque l'on propose des réglages et paramétrages aussi fins. nous avons également eu par le passé quelques soucis avec les fonctionnalités de reporting et le suivi de facturation, pas toujours évident. La gestion administrative par projet peut également être trompeuse, en fonction des privilèges des utilisateurs.

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Dislike

We had teething problems getting used to the data storage. Google Cloud was expensive for a non-profit organization. Down the road, we might find it hard to switch vendors should the need arise.

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Dislike

The platform is powerful but can feel complex during the initial configuration,especially around networking and IAM.Pricing transparency and billing details could also be more straightforward.

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About Google Cloud Platform

VP, IT Infrastructure
I am curious if anyone has recommendations for an objective third party to provide an external evaluation of GCP environments from a Fin Ops/Cost Optimization perspective. Many suppliers in the space selling reporting toolsets or serving as VARs but am interested in finding an independent third party.
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.
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VP of Product Management
We have a Vertex AI environment and we plan to apportion the consumption costs use case wise that are on onboarded on to a project. Currently Google Cloud provides option to extract data for billing at Project level only and we can get details below project level. Hence trying to check if there is a option/configurations to be made to assign costs at use case wise that are onboarded with in a project.
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
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15 Jan 20243.4k Views2 Comments

Google Cloud Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(1601 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
56%
4 Star
40%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • DIRECTOR, LEARNING PLATFORMS & UX
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    GCP offre une gamme de services riche, fiable et performante, même si certains points restent perfectibles

    4.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    Utilisant GCP depuis désormais 4 années, nous avons été agréablement surpris de voir l'évolution de la plateforme au fil des ans. Les quelques retards et manquements des débuts ont depuis été largement rattrapés, au point que l'offre puisse aujourd'hui concurrencer sérieusement les concurrents directs. La plateforme au global reste bien organisée, et parvient à maintenir dans la plupart des cas d'utilisation une navigation fluide, et ce malgré le nombre important de services disponibles. En terme de performances, il est bon de noter que les disruptions de service restent rares.
  • IT MANAGER
    10B+ USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Detailed IAM and Networking Controls Support Reliability and Scalability on Google Cloud

    5.0
    Oct 16, 2025
    My overall experience with Google Cloud Platform has been truly positive.As an IT infrastructure professional,I appreciate its flexibility,reliability,and powerful monitoring capabilities.GCP's IAM and networking configuration options are very detailed,allowing precise control over access and performance.It's an excellent platform for organizations seeking scalability and operational efficiency.
  • DATA ANALYTICS MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    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.

    4.0
    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 TECHNICIAN
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Efficient Integration and Security Stand Out Amid Pricing and Learning Curve Concerns

    5.0
    Oct 28, 2025
    My overall experience with Google Cloud Platform has been positive. The platform is user-friendly, reliable and offers a wide range of powerful tools for cloud computing, storage and data analytics. I appreciate its scalability and integration with other Google services, which make managing workloads and deployments straightforward.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    <50M USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    GCP is reliable once setup, but the on-boarding process is not very smooth.

    4.0
    Nov 3, 2025
    Our experience with GCP has been positive overall, The platform is fast, reliable and works well for the services we use, especially here automation, scalability and data processing are involved.
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