> Does someone know why Google Cloud can afford to be so much cheaper compared to AWS? They have better hardware utilisation and a lot of their infrastructure

> Does someone know why Google Cloud can afford to be so much cheaper compared to AWS? They have better hardware utilisation and a lot of their infrastructure was fully-depreciated before they opened GCP. Unlike AWS, Google couldn't design systems assuming a customer would bear the price of any moderate inefficiencies. So they've had more design pressure on cost from the beginning. I also suspect their cost of networking is much lower -- they own their own fibre network and a lot of it will also be fully-depreciated.