> I was given a little tour of Google Cloud by a friend who uses it and at least during that quick overview GC seemed a bit easier to use than AWS this sounds

> I was given a little tour of Google Cloud by a friend who uses it and at least during that quick overview GC seemed a bit easier to use than AWS this sounds a bit far-fetched to me depending upon the expertise of your friend on both the platforms, he might be more experienced on GCP but not so much on AWS. Anyways my point is devops, in general, is platform agnostic, unless you are going all in on a single provider you can even mix and match few things. As mentioned by many devops gurus, Docker is the absolute must when it comes to things like microservices and devops stuff. I would suggest you compare the two platforms as per your convenience(pricing, brand association etc) then go ahead and deploy your app (monolithic or bundle of microservices) as Docker containers first. Do not worry about scaling at the beginning. Once you get some comfort level on managing your Docker containers you have to move towards automation culture that is the deployments can be done with an automated build pipeline for that naturally as a next step you must use Docker swarm. This process would expose you to the world of devops and microservices/serverless architectures etc. Then you can as a replacement to Docker swarm can try and play with Apache Mesos or kubernetes.