Google's SDN is seriously massive. Petabit of bisectional bandwidth: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Inside-Googles-Data-Center-Networks

Google's SDN is seriously massive. Petabit of bisectional bandwidth: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Inside-Googles-Data-Center-Networks.html http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Insid... One major difference between Google and AWS is that Google will carry your packets between data centers on its backbone by default. Google will also carry packets as close to the customer as possible, whereas AWS will dump it off as quickly as possible. So, even between Google Cloud and AWS it's not an apples to apples comparison.