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Google Cloud vs Oracle Cloud

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Oracle Cloud

Great price-performance ratio
Wide range of server configurations and managed services
Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
10 TB of free egress per month

Price comparison

How do Google Cloud's prices compare against Oracle Cloud?

Example configuration	Google Cloud	Oracle Cloud
VM Small	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Medium	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Large	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage	$4.10 / mo 100 GB	$4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$24.93 / mo 1 TB	$25.57 / mo
Load Balancer	$29.44 / mo	$7.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Managed Redis®*	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	Depends on service	10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$111.60	$8.50 1 TB

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74

Note: Our 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 Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud offer:

Service	Google Cloud	Oracle 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)

Company details

	Google Cloud	Oracle Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008	2016
Data Center Locations	40	39
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

	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

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia