I'm responding to your comment "GCE seems to have better I/O and AWS seems to have higher frequency CPUs" - this isn't true. You can get faster I/O, networking

I'm responding to your comment "GCE seems to have better I/O and AWS seems to have higher frequency CPUs" - this isn't true. You can get faster I/O, networking and CPU with EC2 if you select the correct instance/storage and are willing to pay for it.