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Google Cloud vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 22, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.1
Transitioning to Google Cloud boosts efficiency with faster deployments and reduced costs, despite unclear measurable returns.
Sentiment score
6.3
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure boosts ROI through cost reduction, with many clients seeing benefits within one to two years.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
Users have mixed experiences with Google Cloud support; some praise efficiency, while others rely on external resources or partners.
Sentiment score
6.2
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's support is considered good but inconsistent, with varying responses and room for improvement in escalation processes.
I consider them good partners when it comes to support.
Presales Engineer at 2P - Perfect Presentation
We have consulted Google support several times, and we received a quick response.
Technology Manager at Publicis Sapient
Google's technical support is highly expert and proficient.
IT Service Delivery Manager at NGK
Oracle support is very friendly and provided free of cost.
Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Google Cloud provides excellent scalability and integration, allowing businesses to easily manage growth, despite potential extra costs.
Sentiment score
7.3
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers scalable, flexible, and high-performance services with a pay-as-you-go model appreciated by enterprises.
If I had to rate scalability from one to ten, I would rate it a nine as we have never faced any issues with scalability.
Technology Manager at Publicis Sapient
Google Cloud is highly scalable, and we have not faced any issues with its scalability.
IT Service Delivery Manager at NGK
This solution is suitable for enterprise-level organizations, particularly in finance and healthcare domains where there is substantial data volume.
RPA developer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
There are no issues with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's support for scalability demands.
Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Google Cloud is highly stable, with users rating it highly despite occasional notifications and varying service speeds.
Sentiment score
7.9
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is valued for stability, performance, and uptime, comparable to AWS and Azure, despite occasional connectivity issues.
Regarding the stability of the product, it is the best one.
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Users criticize Google Cloud for its complexity, pricing, security, and integration, seeking enhanced usability, support, and cost efficiency.
Oracle Cloud users want improved support, documentation, integration, usability, pricing, availability, automation, AI, globalization, security, and performance.
If the hierarchy or similarities were the same, that would help developers more conveniently migrate from a traditional SQL server to BigQuery.
RPA developer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Providing more hypervisors would be beneficial.
Presales Engineer at 2P - Perfect Presentation
The logging could be improved; there's currently no intuitive way to filter logs on the Google console, especially for individuals who are not familiar with query languages.
Technology Manager at Publicis Sapient
AWS services typically offer more flexibility to end users.
Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
In Autonomous, for example, where I think an autonomous database should manage storage correctly on its own, my experience is that often we have many allocated storage spaces that are free, but it is impossible to reclaim.
DBA at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Google Cloud offers competitive, flexible pricing with reasonable costs, though some users seek better cost transparency and more storage options.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers competitive pricing with potential savings, but costs can vary and reach up to $40,000 monthly.
As far as I know, it is a little more expensive compared to other cloud options.
Presales Engineer at 2P - Perfect Presentation
Compared to buying new hardware, Google Cloud offers flexible options for scaling up or down, making it more convenient.
IT Service Delivery Manager at NGK
A 50% cost reduction compared to AWS was estimated.
Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
 

Valuable Features

Google Cloud excels with ease of use, scalability, and robust security, supporting diverse applications and efficient data analytics.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers comprehensive features including scalability, security, integration, and cost-effective solutions with advanced AI support and automation.
The most valuable features of Google Cloud for us are the integration with Kubernetes, IAM, Istio integration, and Terraform capabilities.
Technology Manager at Publicis Sapient
If customers use different technologies within their environment, GCP cannot offer a full performance analysis covering all the disclosures.
Presales Engineer at 2P - Perfect Presentation
I find Google Cloud to be more manageable and cost-effective compared to other solutions.
IT Service Delivery Manager at NGK
Applications using Oracle Database not only work seamlessly on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) but also benefit from a 25% offset on Oracle Database licenses.
Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)'s cost management tools helped us create a map of the cost of the various objects and services.
DBA at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
3rd
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
9th
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
10th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
Marketing Intelligence (1st), Container Registry (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Google Cloud is 4.0%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is 4.3%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Cloud4.0%
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)4.3%
Other91.7%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
EmmanuelCatalano - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Cloud platform has supported cost control and database integration but still needs better metrics and storage
I have not used Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)'s networking solutions today. I studied it somewhat, but it is not my main area currently. We had some problems sometimes with Autonomous Database in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), for example, in the past months related to the asset of the metrics. We found problems related to what we wanted to show to the customer about the database because many metrics were missing. We usually worked together with members of Oracle Italia to ask them to introduce some metrics, for example, those that do not work correctly about CPU usage, memory usage, or network usage. There were some metrics in Oracle Autonomous Database in dedicated infrastructure that did not allow us to show correct information to the customer. We usually needed to ask Oracle Italia to introduce some metrics or clarify metric usage. In some cases, they showed incorrect data in the output, so we had to work with them to solve this problem. I am speaking about problems from approximately one year ago, so I do not know if they have fixed all of it now. One problem I faced in the past with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) was also related to documentation. Sometimes there are differences between Oracle Autonomous Database usage on shared infrastructures compared to dedicated infrastructures. When searching for documentation, it is not clear if one aspect or solution is usable in both technologies or on both shared and dedicated infrastructures. I found some documents proposed for Autonomous Database and then discovered that the case was applicable only for shared infrastructure, not dedicated. Oracle Italia explained to me that Oracle Autonomous Database on shared and dedicated are different products. However, I do not understand why if I have the same version of Oracle in both architectures, I cannot have access to some tools or internal packages in both technologies. We usually had to ask them to introduce also in dedicated infrastructures the use of some Oracle PL/SQL packages, some internal packages, for example, for the management of queues. Another aspect is that the storage of Oracle is not very user-friendly. In Autonomous, for example, where I think an autonomous database should manage storage correctly on its own, my experience is that often we have many allocated storage spaces that are free, but it is impossible to reclaim. We need to expand storage and pay for it, even though it is free. I think that regarding the internal management of storage, Oracle can improve.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise37
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise56
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Google Cloud?
Better discounting and discount offers, especially for long-running servers, would be a very good option. A localized cloud in the MENA region would also be very important for us because we are ope...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud?
We are using Google Cloud Kubernetes service. We are using Cloud Build. We are using the PostgreSQL managed service. We are hosting our software platform on Google Cloud. We are using Kubernetes to...
What advice do you have for others considering Google Cloud?
I'm not working with Honeycomb. Google Cloud is a cloud provider and it's still a strong option to choose. However, I would personally prefer AWS. My overall rating for Google Cloud is seven out of...
What are the biggest differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors?
Differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud,w and SAP SuccessFactors:w Oracle: "simple interface and deep customization to suit the purpose." SAP: Multiple functionalities that increase process effi...
What needs improvement with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry?
I have not used Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)'s networking solutions today. I studied it somewhat, but it is not my main area currently. We had some problems sometimes with Autonomous Database ...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry?
In general, I have had a good experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), even though my current company uses other cloud providers such as AWS and Azure. With GoldenGate on Oracle Cloud Inf...
 

Also Known As

GCP
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry, Oracle OCIR, OCIR, Oracle Cloud, Oracle Cloud Platform, Oracle Data Cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Kenya Airways, Cell, Panasonic, Frontera, M&C Saatchi, Lumentum, WA
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