[zimbatm]

It's not that one-sided. On AWS, you have to go hunt to find the pricing for everything. On GCP, it's right next to the instance that you're starting. The GCP dashboard also provides recommendations to down-size VMs if they are too large. On AWS it's also super easy to spin up a VM and never see it because it's in a different region. These little things add up.

[Xunjin]

I do really hate this pattern done by AWS, and their docs seems more made to hide information than actually make easier.

I've learned much more with 5 minutes posts (which I truly dislike) in other sites than going to AWS docs.

Comparing to Digital Ocean docs and Q&A which is so much easier

Edit reason: Added DO as example of simplicity and really helpful price model.