Depending on how you use the services the AWS free tier is actually worth less than GCP's $300 free-trial credit: https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/ https://c

Depending on how you use the services the AWS free tier is actually worth less than GCP's $300 free-trial credit: https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/ https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/ I will give Amazon that theirs extends out to a year, but summing up the costs of everything included in the free tier if you use all of it, I think it may still come out to less than $300 (or the equivalents on GCP would, anyway). For example, running an f1-micro for a year will cost you a bit under $60. If you add in another for Google Cloud SQL you're up to a total of about $150 over the course of a year. What they offer you in S3 is basically free (<$2 over the course of a year). It's possible the other services are a better deal than compute and storage, if you have a use for them, but the GCP free trial lets you allocate that $300 however you like. You can scale up more in that 60 days than you can within the AWS free tier. To me, personally, this strikes me as more valuable if I'm trying to sketch out a new product — I'd rather not try to figure out how to fit inside the AWS free tier resource envelope and instead understand how my costs are scaling with the resources I'm using while not being on the hook for those costs (up to the $300 size of the credit, obviously) for the first couple months. Especially to absorb things like shaking out automation -- go ahead, spin up a GKE cluster, scale it out to 5x the size you currently need, run some quick load tests, and then scale it back down 30 minutes later (and only pay for that 30 minutes). (affiliation: I'm an engineer on Compute Engine)