I work for Google Cloud. I think a blanket statement claiming the GCP is 50% cheaper that AWS is a bad for all the reasons you stated, there is a lot more than

I work for Google Cloud. I think a blanket statement claiming the GCP is 50% cheaper that AWS is a bad for all the reasons you stated, there is a lot more than just VM pricing you have to take into account! We are definetly working on a lot of the things you brought up, I hope this time in 2017 your experience will be very different. Want to clarify a few things though: > - Choice of server/OS! maximum 8vCPU-7.2Mem in GCP compare to 192 vCPU and 2TB memory in AWS The biggest instance on GCP currently is 32vCPU-120GB. Also, with custom machine types you can tune your machine and pick exactly how many cores / memory you need; you are not stuck with predefined instance types. Curious what OSs AWS supports that GCP does not? AWS definitely has a better vertical scaling story though. > - NoSQL Big table ( max 30 nodes) - compare to ( virtually unlimited DynamoDB) BigTable and DynamoDB are not really comparable. BigTable is much lower level. The apples to apples comparison is DynamoDB and Datastore, and Datastore is also unlimited. > - 60 day trial and 300 dollar limit! compare to 1 year I'd also like to see a longer trial for GCP, but the AWS trial gives you 1 year access to basic usage. With GCP, you can spend the $300 any way you like. Personally I'm not sure which model is better or worse, though I lean towards the AWS model.