Yes. It's fascinating to watch these companies evolve. A few years ago AWS was all about price reductions. Now, they are focused on large enterprises and mos

Yes. It's fascinating to watch these companies evolve. A few years ago AWS was all about price reductions. Now, they are focused on large enterprises and most of their R&D is on features that appeal to that set. Google seemed to be built by engineers for engineers, but now they are starting to really polish the edges around their offering (for example their new redesigned web console that was release a week ago or so). The other advantage Google has is simple no-nonsense pricing. The longer you run a machine, the bigger discount you get. That's pretty much the extent of their pricing schema vs Amazon with their whole reserved instances and you never really know if you're getting the best deal without breaking out Excel and doing some analysis.