Not fair. Amazon: IaaS Google: PaaS Amazon is philosophy is being 'close to the metal' to allow Enterprise customer to migrate 'regular apps' into a 'regular

Not fair. Amazon: IaaS Google: PaaS Amazon is philosophy is being 'close to the metal' to allow Enterprise customer to migrate 'regular apps' into a 'regular environment' in the cloud. Most of Google's offerings are (at least were) novel, but proprietary ways of doing specific things. Amazon is not a laggard: they have provided a number of interesting and useful 'helper' things to facilitate IaaS - as well as a number of 'pure cloud' type things. Amazon is very, very customer focused. Their products come from customer demands. Google often 'cool things they've done internally' and exposes them, hoping that they might have some use-case in the rest of the world. Google and Amazon are equally interested in profit.