Name: Google Cloud Platform
Rating: 4.6 (1608 reviews)

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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

IT MANAGER

30B + USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“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.

IT ASSOCIATE

50M - 250M USD, IT Services

CRITICAL

“Product Features Noted, Documentation Gaps and Complexity Highlighted”

3.0

Dec 9, 2025

I like it but the documentation is fragmented, and the interface is overcomplicated

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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

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.

Cost, support and I like some features

GKE is hands-down the gold standard for managed Kubernetes. The automation regarding upgrades and auto-scaling is superior to competitors we POC'd. The serverless nature of Big Query allows us to run massive queries without worrying about infrastructure provisioning. Also, the latency and performance of GCP's Global Load Balancers and VPCs are exceptionally good.

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.

Documentation, interface and billing system

Support experience: Unless you have a dedicated Technical Account Manager, navigating the support hierarchy can be frustrating when you have a P1 production issue. Depreciation Policy: Google moves fast, which is normally great, but sometimes features and APIs are deprecated relatively quickly, forcing us to refactor code sooner than we would like.

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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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Google Cloud Platform Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 34 ratings and reviews for Network Security Microsegmentation market. View all 1608 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.5

(34 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 56%
4 Star: 41%
3 Star: 3%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.5

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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.
It Security & Risk Management Associate
50M-1B USD
Consumer Goods
Review Source
Reliable & Engineering-First Product
4.0
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.
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.
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Gov't/PS/Ed
Education
Review Source
A robust cloud platform for all your needs
5.0
Nov 6, 2025
Getting things set up was a bit of a struggle, but the support received from the vendor was informational and helpful.

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