> Anybody who has actually dealt with any of this stuff in production knows that Amazon is the industry leader for a reason and that Google is way, way back in

> Anybody who has actually dealt with any of this stuff in production knows that Amazon is the industry leader for a reason and that Google is way, way back in third place. Though I haven't worked with either cloud extensively (I mainly play with them for pet projects), I think that's an overly strong and awfully generalized assertion. There are a number of other, less Google-press-release, experiences around that show a preference for Google. Instead of saying "anybody knows", could you offer some actual reasons you believe AWS to be superior? That would be much more constructive and appreciated. I'll start by saying that I find AWS' control panel infuriating to use but complete in functionality while Google's is much nicer to use but often lacks features, annoyingly forcing you to use their command line tools. I also find Google's built in quotas to be too low to actually do much with it and I hate that I had to "apply" for an increase. On the other hand, I like Google's billing much more than AWS; their sustained use discounts are easy to figure out and don't require an upfront commitment, which as an individual I'm not likely to want to pay for.