The article conveniently ignores things like the number of services available, the ability to find staff who are familiar with the platform, the availability of

The article conveniently ignores things like the number of services available, the ability to find staff who are familiar with the platform, the availability of data centres in your location, the depth/breadth of the available APIs, market share and so on ... Sure, if the only thing that you care about is cost, maybe you should use GCE. Alternatively, if you're really serious about saving money, then perhaps you should buy some second hand servers and host it yourself.