It's not as user friendly, but if you actually understand the complexities of VPC networking AWS allows a lot more flexibility with routing and (potentially) ne

It's not as user friendly, but if you actually understand the complexities of VPC networking AWS allows a lot more flexibility with routing and (potentially) network level security than GCE. In general networking/ops guys love AWS because they can set it up exactly how they want, while developers who just want something working out of the box love GCE. AWS really requires a management layer like Terraform in order to be maintainable though. Trying to manage all the routing and connections by hand for more than a single VPC is hellish. Some GCE services are just not up to par yet as well. Their CloudSQL service for instance is a pretty horrible mess right now, while RDS is rock solid (I do cloud architecture and consulting so I have a pretty wide swath of clients on both services to compare with).