> Google is not as general as AWS and therefore has serious vendor lockin. Presumably you are talking about Google App Engine, which is just a small part of GC

> Google is not as general as AWS and therefore has serious vendor lockin. Presumably you are talking about Google App Engine, which is just a small part of GCP. Amazon's comparable offering is Elastic Beanstalk. The core building blocks on GCP and AWS are the same: raw virtual machines you can build anything upon yourself, GCE vs EC2. GCE has been around since 2012.