| (Sorry, I'm late to reply, but since you addended your comment you might still be listening...) After spending a year evaluating both AWS and GCP (with an emphasis on their managed database services; both SQL and no-SQL) my general feeling is this: "Microsoft Windows is to Unix as AWS is to GCP". (Or perhaps closer to the truth: "VMS is to Unix as AWS is to GCP".) Baically AWS services seem like they are badly designed by buerocratic mediocre engineers following some bureocratic template for "a service". GCP feels a lot saner (both API- and UI/console-wise). I often got the feeling it's designed by people who: a) are smart and well-rounded in terms of experiences. It does take cleverness and experience to design something elegant that is also useful. b) take pride in their work (it does show) (And then, as a bonus: It's cheaper!) |