> After all, Google is a tech company first and foremost... Amazon started as a retailer. Yet, Amazon has proven to be extremely capable of being both technica

> After all, Google is a tech company first and foremost... Amazon started as a retailer. Yet, Amazon has proven to be extremely capable of being both technical and marketable. I almost wanted to stop reading your comment when you said that, but I kept going because I don't use Google Compute. > The GUI is way, way, way nicer than the EC2 GUI Absolutely agree, but I don't have Google Compute, can you share some screenshot or pull one off the internet so we can actually compare? > There's no need to install multiple SDKs and libraries to interface with the "cloud" like there is with EC2 I think this goes back to legacy consolidation/ For example, we still have to rely on s3cmd for certain exclusive operations because aws cli does not offer that out of the box. AWS documentation itself is also not most readable. Furthermore, filtering is quite primitive and limited in most APIs (and also very inconsistent). Some products aren't even available entirely in CloudFormation, or partially available. > Google has the advantage over Amazon of releasing its cloud product half a decade after Amazon, so Google could learn from the mistakes of EC2 Certainly.