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AWS Step Functions vs. Google Cloud Functions

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Step Functions
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
A visual workflows for distributed applications that provides serverless orchestration for modern applications. The solution helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines.
$0.03
per 1,000 state transitions
Google Cloud Functions
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Functions enables users to run code in the cloud with no servers or containers to manage. Cloud Functions is a scalable, pay-as-you-go functions as a service (FaaS) product to help build and connect event driven services with simple, single purpose code.N/A
Pricing
AWS Step FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Editions & Modules
AWS Step Functions Standard Workflows
$0.025
per 1,000 state transitions
AWS Step Functions Express Workflows
$1.00
per 1M requests
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Step FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
AWS Step FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Likelihood to Recommend
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(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS Step FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
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Google
Google Cloud Platform Cloud functions are an excellent way to start a serverless journey in GCP, however, using Cloud Run may be the better solution. For users not acquainted with Docker & Linux, I would definitely recommend Google Cloud Functions, however, for more experienced users, Cloud Run may be better suited.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
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Google
  • Needing a zip file is problematic (when wanting to automate deployment for example).
  • Requires another solution to execute automatically (ex. cloud scheduler).
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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Google
Overall Google Cloud Functions is losing a lot of benefits to other GCP services, making it less attractive to users. A simple example would be the need to zip application files and push them to Google Storage which makes it a bit complicated to automate via a CI/CD pipeline. Another "similar" solution would be using Cloud Run although the need for a docker image is there, with the recent evolutions to Cloud Run (ability to downscale to 0) it makes a lot more interesting.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Google
Documentation is provided and clear for this service. Although GCP support is included in the current contract we didn't get to use it since the process is pretty straightforward.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
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Google
  • Using it for FinOps, we cut the bill in 2 for certain services (out of production).
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