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Cloud Foundry vs Google Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloud Foundry
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
21st
Average Rating
5.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Cloud
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Cloud Foundry is 1.9%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud is 5.8%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Cloud5.8%
Cloud Foundry1.9%
Other92.3%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

Carlos Bittrich - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Advisor at Fabrik
Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes
We enjoy the fast deployment. Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the developer or administrator. The autoscaling is great. It is just a switch that needs to be turned on, and autoscaling starts working. At this moment, you begin to see different meters about usage that helps you in updating the scaling limits, which help you tune the running instances. Besides this, autoscaling can be scheduled, so in times of low activity, you can have lower limits or increase in advance for special dates. It has good logging. CF has logging events that help identify when a transaction runs and its response time which helps in monitoring execution.
AnjaneyaVara Prasad - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cloud services have reduced on‑prem hardware costs and now support flexible microservices workloads
Regarding potential areas of improvement for Google Cloud, considering that they are providing 300 plus services, some services could be improved. For example, if I am facing some network troubleshooting issue in GKE in Google Cloud, I have to dig deeply and enable some special logs, such as flow logs. To enable that, it is chargeable. At least for basic services, they should give end-to-end support. In terms of end-to-end support, if I am purchasing one firewall from Google and using that firewall, all firewall-related services should be free. If I want to troubleshoot something deep and perform deep troubleshooting, you have to enable some additional logs. That is not that good. If I have to enable additional logs and want to store them into Google Cloud storage, which is similar to an S3 bucket, it is again chargeable. Those kinds of things should be given as part of the package. If you take firewall, all firewall-related logs, activities, and diagnostics everything should come as one package. If you want to do some deep analysis, you have to enable these logs, and for that you have to store them in the cloud storage, which is again chargeable. We should not have those kinds of things.Regarding additional costs, it can vary case by case. If I want to do deep analysis, I have to enable some logs, and for those logs, Google is charging. I am already paying for my virtual firewall from Google, and I am paying the cost for that. If I want to do some further troubleshooting and enable some low-level logs, they are charging for that. So these are the kinds of things I am talking about. To do very deep-level troubleshooting and enable additional logs, they will be charging. Not only Google, but all clouds are charging for this. Functionality-wise, Google Cloud is fine. In terms of virtual machine deployment or VM instance, the functionality is good.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"By moving to IBM Cloud Foundry, we reduced our project time by a factor of two and decreased costs by a factor of four because it was a PoC."
"My favorite component of IBM's solution is Node-RED, which greatly shortens the amount of time required to develop, test, and deploy new applications."
"Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user."
"IBM is the only vendor to offer integration with blockchain for smart contract development."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to spin."
"It's a perfect tool for startups."
"The automatic sync between my mobile device data and photos to the cloud is the most valuable feature."
"I like that it's there anytime you need it."
"It is very easy to share documents."
"Compared to that, it is going very well and most of the customers now actually use Google Cloud."
 

Cons

"After the initial excitement period with Node-RED is over, you crave the need of additional integrations to third-party services."
"In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage."
"I would improve the integration with other devices such as smartphones. It is integrated in our company, but I think it could be improved."
"They could always offer even more storage at the base level."
"Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services."
"The Notes application could be better."
"The solution has okay stability, however, that said, it has a way to go before it keeps up to something like Azure."
"There are issues with stability. There may be capacity issues at the time but it's hard to guess what the root cause is."
"Technical support needs help."
"The solution should be more configurable for high-volume databases."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM has a free tier and payment option depending on the products selected."
"The pricing models should be reworked to the needs of a wider range of companies. Some customers will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even after good PoC results and a successful launch."
"You are allocated a minimum amount of resources in the free tier. This seems fair and highly scalable, as you pay per usage as per cloud pricing schemes."
"Google Cloud is quite expensive, and I rate it at seven out of ten."
"It has a monthly subscription. The customers pay based on the usage."
"Google offers a free account with minimal data backup and we can subscribe for more data."
"Licensing fees are paid monthly."
"For the license, we didn't have to pay for any additional fees."
"We use the NGO version so the cloud reasonably priced at $2 to $3 per month."
"Google cloud is less expensive than other comparable solutions."
"This solution is worth the money we are paying. I would rate the pricing a three out of five."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise38
 

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