Amazon RDS vs Google Cloud

MySQL

Microsoft Azure

Amazon S3

Oracle Database

Quickbase

Amazon EC2

Compare Amazon RDS and Google Cloud based on features, pricing, verified reviews, integrations & more on GetApp. Find out which software is best for your business in 2026.

Oracle Database is a data warehouse software designed to help businesses of all sizes manage data and automate recurring tasks using machine learning-enabled tools. The platform enables managers to generate business models, transform data, and detect hidden anomalies across datasets.

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) designed to help businesses record, update, and manage data and deploy cloud-native applications. Features include data masking and de-identification, multi-document transaction support, intrusion detection, alerts & configuration management.

Quickbase is a no-code collaborative work management platform that empowers citizen developers to improve operations through real-time insights and automations across complex processes and disparate systems.

Amazon RDS is a relational database service software designed to help users set up, operate and scale databases such as Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL in the cloud. Users can manage routine database tasks like patching and provisioning, and more.

Access Controls/Permissions

Alerts/Notifications

Automatic Backup

Backup and Recovery

Dashboard

Data Capture and Transfer

Data Dictionary Management

Data Migration

Data Replication

Data Retrieval

Data Storage Management

Data Virtualization

Disaster Recovery

Encryption

High Availability

Mobile Access

Monitoring

Multiple Programming Languages Supported

Multitenancy

Performance Analysis

Performance Monitoring

Relational Database Management

User Management

Amazon RDS

Web-based

Lead Analyst

This is a great way to use a relational DBMS without managing it , it is a great experience using this service.

Senior Software Engineer

The security management is really good, we can set all types of security managements like, subnet, security group, VPC, IAM role etc, which will take a lot of effort if gone manually.

Tech Support

Not much that I can provide as dislike for this server.

Senior Software Developer

Since it's not a self-hosted service, there are some low level features that are missing.

Founder

What I like about RDS is the variety of database options from both a hardware and software standpoint. In addition, it's easy to have a database stood up within 10 to 15 minutes.

Software Engineer

Supports lots of Amazon cloud service options and third-party programs and APIs. Strong emphasis on securing server instances.

Amazon RDS has worked really well for us for our cloud DB solution. It's pretty intuitive and easy to use, and you can choose exactly what instances sizes, storage sizes, etc. you want.

Easy to create, configure and manage relational databases through the web console. Integration with our application is seamless.

The greatest feature of Amazon RDS like other aws services is auto-scaling and automatically backups. It takes away the burden of having to monitor the databases for performance.

Software Developer

The pricing is good and even a person starting out his website or server can use this to maintain 100% uptime of his database.

RDS in particular is quite easy to set up (at least in the basics) and it is very fast and reliable.

It's very hard to get started. UI is extremely bloated and near impossible to navigate if you don't know what you're looking for.

Principal software engineer

The main issue is that metrics collected  manually will never meet AWS metrics which are used to bill your stack. And of course AWS point of view will be much costly.

Senior Application Developer

If someone is building their software and does not want to manage their DB and not concerned about how it is getting managed then this is the best option in market.

Programmer

Great technical support. You almost don't need to mind at any configuration or database servers anymore.

Overall Amazon RDS is a pretty good solution, but it does come with its own problems like pricing and performance especially when compared to opensource NoSql solutions.

My overall experience with Amazon RDS has nothing but been amazing with the great customer support that they offer and consideration they provide for minor mistakes performed at our end.

No complex configuration needed, all security and control access is mostly already handled.

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Freelancers

Large Enterprises

Mid Size Business

Non Profit

Small Business

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform designed to help organizations run virtual desktops and applications in the cloud. It offers businesses with built-in migration tools, which enables administrators to migrate remote desktop services (RDS) and Windows server desktops to various devices.

Amazon S3 is a simple storage service that helps developers and IT teams store, backup, archive and retrieve data from anywhere across the web. It allows administrators to store data in buckets, append tags to objects, configure access controls for several clients, conduct high-volume data analysis, gain insights into storage usage and gauge trends based on activities.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to facilitate web-scale computing for developers.

Google Cloud Platform is a modular-based platform providing multiple build and scale services to businesses of any size within any industry. It offers tools for document storage, data warehousing, security key enforcement, app creation, API management, AI and machine learning, live chat, and more.

Access Management

Activity Monitoring

AI/Machine Learning

Alerts/Escalation

Anti Virus

Application Management

Audit Management

Authentication

Automated Scheduling

Bandwidth Monitoring

Business Process Automation

Calendar Management

Capacity Analytics

Chatbot

Cloud Application Security

Cloud Computing

Cloud Encryption

Cloud Security Policy Management

Code Development

Collaboration Tools

Compliance Management

Compliance Tracking

Configurable Workflow

Configuration Management

Connectivity Management

Cost Management

Custom Development

Customer Database

Customizable Dashboard

Data Blending

Data Cleansing

Data Connectors

Data Discovery

Data Extraction

Data Import/Export

Data Integration

Data Management

Data Recovery

Data Security

Data Synchronization

Data Transformation

Data Visualization

Data Warehousing

Database Conversion

Database Support

Debugging

Deep Learning

Device Management

Diagnostic Tools

Document Management

Document Storage

Drag & Drop

Email Management

Endpoint Management

Endpoint Protection

ETL - Extract Transfer Load

File Management

File Sharing

File Transfer

For Developers

For eCommerce

For Healthcare

For Sales Teams/Organizations

Forecasting

Full Text Search

Generative AI

Graphical User Interface

High Volume Processing

HIPAA Compliant

In-Database Processing

Incident Management

Integrated Development Environment

Interactive Reports

Intrusion Detection System

IOC Verification

Lifecycle Management

Load Balancing

Log Access

Machine Learning

Metadata Management

ML Algorithm Library

Mobile App

Mobile Development

Model Training

Multi-Cloud Management

Google Cloud

Associate Solution Advisor

The availability of this tool is fabulous and configuring setting up clusters is done in minutes. Also, the performance of this service is amazing, be it in any region, across the globe.

Dispatcher

Ease of being able to access the information or saved documents of high importance. Love the fact you can connect with others and build great relationships with.

Teacher

I love how easy and user friendly this software is. It is also very reliable and consistently just works.

Digital Media Specialist

I have a very nice and professional experience with Google Cloud Platform, because I build and invest in my cloud with full confidence. Because I know that my content is fully secure and safe.

Health Care Administrator 

I enjoyed the learning process and I will most definitely consider this software moving forward. I'm very happy to have taken advantage of the free trial.

Student

It is charged in dollar which makes it very expensive for people living in countries where the local currency is weak compared to the US dollar.

digital recruitment specialist

I dislike that it causes me to worry about privacy in regards to anything I upload. You never truly know where it's going or who has access when it goes to the cloud.

Junior Mobile Developer

I really like the free tier of the many softwares and the easy integration of, for example, App engine. The sync with Firebase is awesome too.

I is just what I was looking for, I am able to store projects  and open them on several devices seamlessly. I wish I had found this software sooner its great.

The thing that I like most about this software would be the ease of access and the ease of use for the user.

Things are very well managed, I use BigQuery to analyse the data. Things are great there, the integrations/options are great.

Technical consultant 

Great customer support and easiness of implementing the apps. I was part of installing and support of SAP applications in GCP and I had good experience.

Owner

It´s a great platform with excellent network performance and scalability.

Google Cloud Platform is really a best platform that offers incredibly amazing cloud computing services. You can build apps and websites fasters.

real estate

It is easy to use and cost effective to ensure things are backed up.

2nd Year Student

Navigation on the pages can be confusing at times and some information is not updated for the latest version.

It can be quite expensive compared to other providers. It won´t have the same hardware performance as a bare metal server and might be costly if you are looking to get the same performance.

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