DigitalOcean vs Google Cloud

The Basics

	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud
Website	digitalocean.com	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2008
Data Center Locations	14	40
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

Cost Comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud
VM Small	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00	$111.60

Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that DigitalOcean and Google Cloud offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

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