A Tale of Two Clouds: Amazon vs. Google

Hi everyone, author here. I wrote this article to summarize my thoughts on using the Google Cloud vs Amazon.<p>TL;DR: Although AWS has a lot more cloud products, unless you need the additional options, IMHO the Google Cloud is more intuitive, cheaper and offers better cost structure (e.g. by-the-minute pricing instead of by-the-hour).<p>So if you’re starting a new project, I would highly recommend that you give the Google Cloud a try.

We actually use Google&#x27;s Firebase to manage our Alexa skill, delivering content from S3, best of both worlds.

This blog post really just compares EC2 vs GCE. That&#x27;s a valuable comparison to make, but covers a fairly narrow use case. I&#x27;d love to see comparisons that that say &quot;for EDW X wins over Y&quot;, &quot;for high volume message passing Z is best&quot;, &quot;for data archival Q wins&quot; etc

If price is your thing, Linode for compute and Backblaze for storage; 4 CPU and 8GB RAM for $40 a month and 1&#x2F;2 cent per month per gig. For full feature cloud I find Azure a better competitor to AWS as far as features&#x2F;price&#x2F;interface and per minute billing.

Nice article. Good explanation of what some of the major numbers and features mean in a practical sense.

Basically, an advertisement for Google barely disguised as an &#x27;article&#x27;.