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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets vs. Google Compute Engine

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

by Microsoft

Google Compute Engine

by Google

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count30953
Ease of use9.08.8
Ease of setup9.58.8
Quality of support9.18.7
Meets requirements9.49.1
NPS77.77777864.645309
Small Business30.0%34.7%
Mid-Market30.0%31.1%
Enterprise40.0%34.2%
Total page views87962
Total LLM citations5318,311

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) enable the creation and management of a group of load-balanced virtual machines (VMs) that can automatically scale in response to demand or a defined schedule. This service is designed to support large-scale applications, such as batch processing, big data, and container workloads, by allowing users to efficiently deploy and manage thousands of VMs with uniform configurations.

Pros

  • Services
  • Cloud Storage
  • Simple
  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface
  • Application Development

Google Compute Engine

Compute Engine is Google's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform for organizations to create and run cloud-based virtual machines.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Scalability
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Flexibility