[jonathanmarcus]

AWS launched in 2006, while Google App Engine launched in 2008 and Google Compute Engine launched in 2012. But Amazon has always moved significantly faster than Google in the IaaS market, introducing the most comprehensive suite of infrastructure services and relentlessly undercutting on price. AWS has been consistently innovative while Google has long played catch-up at far too slow a pace.

[mianos]

App engine is largely useless. People wanted virtual machines. Google only just worked that out last year. Useless POS could not even allow TCP connections. No long running processes. Dog slow io. So many limitations. Sure it is a different product so I am not comparing apples to apples but Google said 'you want this' and amazon gave us what we wanted.