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 operating in the MENA. If there is a data center for Google Cloud in the region, this would help us a lot. This should be combined with good pricing. We found that there are some data centers in the region, but unfortunately they are more expensive than their counterparts in Europe. We had to be in Europe, although we are operating in the MENA region.

Since I'm working with BigQuery, I had to invest time to become familiar with the system. As I was working in SQL server previously, I had an idea that we would have a server, and inside the server, we would have a database and a separate folder for stored procedures. That hierarchy was different in Google BigQuery. If the hierarchy or similarities were the same, that would help developers more conveniently migrate from a traditional SQL server to BigQuery.

Currently, there are no specific functionalities or features I would like to see improved in Google Cloud. Everything is up and running smoothly, and we are working on integrating a couple of projects, including business intelligence and AI tools. Some UI improvements or enhanced AI capabilities could be beneficial, but I do not have specific requirements at the moment.

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. Our non-technical users find it difficult to access logs. Additionally, the user interface could be more user-friendly and intuitive compared to our previous experience with AWS ( /products/amazon-aws-reviews ).

In terms of Google services, providing more hypervisors would be beneficial. Currently, in my region, they don't offer many services as they have just started. They have some local instances, yet improvements are needed in the tools and offers provided to customers. I currently only use, for example, a native hybrid. VMware is not available, and other hypervisors are still not there. They need to wait on that.

The performance after long-term use shows the storage is too full, and I cannot add more storage without paying for it. I want to migrate to another solution if I need to pay for additional storage. It would also be enjoyable if there is no HBase in Google Workspace.

Google Cloud doesn't have Mac machines, but AWS and Azure Clouds have them. Google Cloud does not have many build pipelines like Azure does.

Actually, our company doesn't venture out much to use all of the products and features covered under Google Cloud because we do have our own customizations when it comes to the setups for the company. We are trying to maximize our resources, the cost, and the assets, and we want to control it on our own. The product's initial setup phase is a little bit difficult, so it is an area where improvements are required.

CloudArmor accuracy should be improved. Rules and signatures need to be more refined to detect and process attacks, accuracy of rate-limiting should be improved.

The product should be more cost-effective.

They could integrate artificial intelligence into the applications.

The product must provide support for .NET. Microsoft has support for .NET because .NET is a Microsoft product. We ran into an issue when we were waiting for Google to support .NET 6. Google is slower to support .NET. It must cater more to .NET developers.

For Google Cloud, the availability could be improved. I'm from China, and Google Cloud is not so popular there. Other than that, I would like to see an increase in storage with Google Cloud. For example, I use Baidu Cloud. Their cloud storage reaches the limit. In China, the biggest problem with Google Cloud is price.

The solution's integration with Oracle could be better. We encounter issues while migrating the database from Oracle to another SQL server.

When the companies grow at a larger scale, I often see them shifting to a different cloud services provider, like Oracle or AWS, because they may have critical features or preferences over Google Cloud. While Google Cloud is expanding, there is still room for improvement in flexibility.

I'm still confused by the usefulness of the cloud and I'm not sure why everyone is moving there. I don't trust the act of sending my company's information to whoever knows where instead of having it safe on my own servers. I find it hard to download items, especially on their operating system. The Google operating system leaves a lot to be desired. It does not seem to provide any virtualization whatsoever.

I can't think of any improvements off the top of my head. The solution could be a bit cheaper.

I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code.

Google Cloud could improve interoperability with other cloud services. Our objective was to attain a convenient and straightforward configuration process not only in Google Cloud but in other widely utilized cloud services. Regardless of the cloud service you are currently utilizing or intend to connect to, we desire for the process to be seamless and effortlessly attainable with only quick action. It is our hope that all cloud services possess this level of interoperability with one another.

Lower pricing would make Google Cloud better.

There is only one issue that I have and it is when you create an account, they limit the number of accounts you can create. The documentation could be better. The backup needs improvement. I would prefer to do a one-piece backup solution where I can schedule backups. It's just too complicated to migrate from one Firebase database to another. It should have been easy. I'd like to see something like an exchange server, a managed email server, where I can handle other clients. I'd like something similar to Microsoft Exchange yet something that is like a fully managed email service.

The solution could improve by being less expensive.

An area of improvement would be in the of managing accounts in terms of what we are using for memory, availability, and monitoring. We want to monitor our SaaS deployment within Google to give our SOC a good idea of what's going on.

I cannot recall coming across any missing features.

The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available.

The cost could be lowered. The analytics could be improved. The analytics that they have are very focused. It serves Google and not really the client. There needs to be some kind of ratio between the purpose of the service, how much of this service is for the client and how much is for the provider. Google is getting more value from the analytics services than the client.

Cloud vendors can't afford to have data centers all across the world because of the economics of scale and the size of markets. That is one reason that some customers don't get onto the cloud. Another issue is the applicability of local language data capturing mechanisms, which are more advanced on cloud service providers, but still there is room to grow. Also, their hybrid version isn't available in all markets worldwide, so I'm hoping that it will be released globally soon.

Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities.

From my point of view, the security features could be improved.

The storage available for this solution could be improved, especially compared to a solution like Microsoft which offers 1 TB of storage. Google cloud offers only 30 GB.

The Spanish version is in beta. It needs to be farther along. We'd like the solution to be smaller and lighter. It could be simpler. We'd like for some better integration from TerraForm.

I don't have any problems using the solution. It's been problem-free for the most part. The product could always be a little bit less expensive.

Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English.

My only concern is that a number of the offerings are built on their own proprietary technologies. This means that, with respect to the offerings in Google Cloud, it's difficult to have a path to migrate to other cloud providers.

They need to improve the costing for predictive analytics, which is mainly related to the tools that come with AI. They also need to improve the BigQuery cost optimization and the visualization. Their support could be faster.

The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure.

It could have a reporting tool included.

I would improve the integration with other devices such as smartphones. It is integrated in our company, but I think it could be improved. It would be good to have fewer notifications.

The solution has been good overall. I can't recall having any features missing. The solution could be less expensive. It may be helpful to go through some training in order to get comfortable with the product. The user interface could be a bit better. I've done a few deployments following the tutorial, and afterward, I'm not quite sure what exactly I've done. I just follow the instructions and just finish the command prompt and then it looks like it's working - but why, and how? I'm not quite sure. I want to understand fundamentally what I've done. If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes.

Monitoring and usage reporting could be improved. For example, they don't provide the CPU primary memory usage report. They do provide a CPU usage report, but not the memory. This is something that is critical for people interested in monitoring because if you are burdening the machine then you want the option of providing more RAM. There is no graph or monitoring in the console; if it is there then I haven't found it, so it is something that takes extra time to figure out. Google does not provide free support and at the least, email support should be available. I am not asking for free chat or telephone support, but given that we are paying to use the machine, email support should be included. The alerts are somewhat cryptic and do not say much about what is going on.

I think Google Cloud could provide more services.

Every once in a while I have trouble accessing it, but I don't know if that's a function of the Cloud, the way the Cloud is set up, or it's just something on my browser. Stability could be improved in terms of the Cloud in general administration. It's frustrating when companies have to deal with Cloud Administration. Change configuration management is an issue. I can envision customer companies that are Cloud-enabled where their biggest problem is having to keep up with the changes and managing it. The API is constantly evolving. IP addresses are constantly changing and it's hard to keep up with all of those changes. Typically it is being administered through IT organizations, although they have no visibility. If you engage in a security solution through a cloud provider, you have no view, it's all faith, trust, and hope. How do you reconcile the two, to provide the visibility, do it seamlessly, and make it easy to use? If they could include a popup section where all of the new updates are. That would be helpful. I don't have the experience or intelligence to know what it is that they are showing, or where I can get that I might need, which would make a feature like this important. It would like it if upon starting the browser, it tells you that it is out of date and asks if you would like to update. That would lead customers to take the optimal path as opposed to having to figure it out themselves.

The analytics could be improved. I need to be able to give them to the client. It is there, but you have to go to Google Cloud to see it. I want it added as a service so I can add it to the client-side and make it easily sharable with my clients. The management side for the database needs some work. Currently, you do everything from the app. It would be nice to have an interface where you can go in and maintain data and deal with records and do something online. Also the ability to migrate the database should be a bit easier. You can't just copy a database and make another duplicate. You have to do all that bit manually.

It is difficult to say what should be improved because, obviously, they have made some major improvements in the organization of how you do things — such as the way you set up a server. Google has made a lot of effort to try and catch up to the competition in the area of ease-of-use because that would have been my one complaint: that you have got to be quite technical to understand some of the ways that things are done. Azure and Heroku are number one in ease-of-use and they make it very easy. Google has done a lot of work to alleviate that objection and to catch up with Heroku and Azure. But the people that have the most to say about the ease-of-use would be the guys using it. For the developers we have, they like the power and the control that Google gives them. So I can not actually answer what exactly has to improve for developers to be more satisfied at this point because they seem quite satisfied with it already. I do not get any complaints from the guys. They are the ones using it every day and I do not use it on a daily basis so I really can not comment in that sense. I could say that it can be easier to use for people that do not have the same level of technical skills, but even that has improved a lot with their upgrade to the user documentation.