[ticku]

Are they even comparable? AWS offers full virtual machines. I was under the impression that GCE offers a more high level platform where you run your code in their proprietery environment?

If I am not mistaken, using GCE means you are locked in and cannot migrate away easily. That's why I never looked into it closely. I don't want to be at the mercy of a provider.

[xrstf]

Google Compute Engine offers virtual machines, Google App Engine is the special app platform where you have no control over the individual instances that your app runs on.

[davidcgl]

My guess is OP meant to say AWS vs GCP (Google Cloud Platform) instead of GCE (Google Compute Engine).

[dmourati]

That's my read as well. Google has a bit of a hurdle to overcome in explaining their acronyms. AWS has a 10-year head start.

[pki]

GCE ~= EC2

GAE ~= Elastic Beanstalk

[jspaetzel]

Might as well toss the azure comparble ones in here while we're at it.

Azure Virtual Machines ~= Google Compute Engine ~= Amazon EC2

Azure Websites/App Service ~= Google App Engine ~= Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

[grogenaut]

I would say more correctly GAE ~= Lambda

[bpicolo]

GCE is just VMs