[simonebrunozzi]

I think it's a complex question.

AWS is far ahead in terms of maturity of the service, breadth of services, ecosystem support.

On the other hand, Google Compute Platform is "up and coming", and in general it is trying to attract customers by offering lower-than-AWS prices on most comparable services.

AWS is also a safer bet. At the same time, Google is big enough that betting on it is not as risky as betting on another "startuppy" provider.

[babo]

GCE is pretty much based on Google internal technologies and infrastructure. They had a low profile on GCE, they services are more hand picked, but it's a mature and complete service offering.

[brianwawok]

And in general, the comparable GCE offerings are LIGHTYEARS ahead in performance.

Compare instance launch times. Compare internal network performance.

I just cannot fathom using AWS for a new project. I guess if you MUST have some of the SAAS apps built on top of AWS and don't want to consider how you would run the same thing on GCE... but I think GCE would be a fantastic default cloud for 90% of people.

[teh]

Do you have benchmarks on that? Not my experience for network speeds and CPU of individual machines but it's been 6 months since I checked.

[obulpathi]

Google Network and SSDs offer an order of magnitude more performance / price. Disks and Storage are about 2 times fast. Booting is 5 times fast.

Not just the performance, all Google Cloud services are fully managed (Think of S3 and Lambda on AWS). No servers! On AWS, only a couple of services are fully managed. Rest of them are a thin layer on top of EC2. If AWS is DevOps, Google Cloud is NoOps.

[zbjornson]

Some of my benchmarks for networking and storage (block and object) are in the middle of this deck:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B1jvWWh0ACaDv4ryEzLl...