Google Cloud vs UpCloud

The Basics

	Google Cloud	UpCloud
Website	cloud.google.com	upcloud.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Finland 🇫🇮
Founded	2008	2012
Data Center Locations	40	13
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank	Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk

	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

	UpCloud
Website	upcloud.com
Headquarters	Finland 🇫🇮
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	13
Example Customers	Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk

Cost Comparison

How do Google Cloud's prices compare against UpCloud?

Example configuration	Google Cloud	UpCloud
VM Small	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$7.61 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (General)
VM Medium	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$56.50 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (General)
VM Large	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$173.86 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (High CPU)
Block Storage	$4.10 / mo 100 GB	$23.91 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$24.93 / mo 1 TB	$21.73 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$29.44 / mo	$10.87 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage	$65.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)	$54.33 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	Depends on service	500 GB - 24 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$111.60	$10.87

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 Google Cloud and UpCloud offer:

Service	Google Cloud	UpCloud
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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