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Google Cloud Platform

byGoogle
in
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

Software Engineer
50M - 250M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“GCP is very powerful distributed platform to share the files or store the file.”

5.0
Jan 8, 2020
GCP is very powerful distributed platform to share the files or store the file. We can easily store and share the file to other with privacy which one has access of the bucket. It is much easier while cluster job execution.
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CRITICAL

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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

File storing is secure and with privacy and easy to store big file.

Like

the data you need could be obtained by simple SQL queries

Like

Easy of use and configuration

Dislike

For big query in GCP, it takes time and much cost also.

Dislike

Nothing as of yet

Dislike

Streaming applications doesn't work as expected

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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

Showing data for 16 ratings and reviews for Hadoop Distributions market. View all 1608 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.6

(16 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
69%
4 Star
25%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • Software Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    GCP is very powerful distributed platform to share the files or store the file.

    5.0
    Jan 7, 2020
    GCP is very powerful distributed platform to share the files or store the file. We can easily store and share the file to other with privacy which one has access of the bucket. It is much easier while cluster job execution.
  • Senior Advisor
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Easy to handle tool

    4.0
    Dec 20, 2019
    This is an easy and very useful tools that could be used to get your data saved in the cloud. All you need is knowledge on SQL
  • Data Analyst
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    GCP hits high in 2020

    5.0
    Nov 19, 2019
    Highly satisfied with the way its growing and tapping cloud market comparing its late start. Products used: Dataproc, BigQuery, GCS, Cloud SQL, VM, Composer, Datastore, Cloud shell
  • Senior Software Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Google cloud platform provides a series of modular cloud services.

    5.0
    Jun 11, 2019
    Google cloud platform provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning.
  • devloper lead
    1B-10B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    An Idea Solution for Students, Autodidacts and Professionals for Anything Cloud Related

    3.0
    May 6, 2019
    -Useful Suite of Tools: One of the best parts about Google Drive is that it integrates directly with other Google apps such as Google Sheets and Google Docs. These are probably the most commonly used apps within the Google suite and it fits perfectly well within your google drive workflow. Not only that if you download the desktop client for Mac or Windows you are able to download and sync all the files that are on your google drive account. This allows you to easily open the Google Sheets and Google Docs files like they were native files on your desktop system. Once you click on a google sheets or Google docs file, it will open up a browser and take you right to that file within your browser. Google Docs Add-ons: This is extremely convenient and much better workflow than any other competitor, even though Dropbox came out with their own word document editor recently. The Google Docs workflow is better than any other competitor as of yet. And beyond that, there is a huge amount of Google Docs add-ons that you can add other companies will make certain extensions that you can expand the functionality of Google Docs and Google Sheets
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