Tacking onto another comment, companies aren't just leaving GCP for AWS - the NSA recently left Microsoft to award Amazon a $10 billion contract [1]. Mindshare

Tacking onto another comment, companies aren't just leaving GCP for AWS - the NSA recently left Microsoft to award Amazon a $10 billion contract [1]. Mindshare is definitely key, but there's also the fact that AWS has been around longer and has a more robust services offering. And as the first mover, AWS has been able to set the market standard for pricing. That's a double-edged sword though, and many businesses are dramatically overpaying for AWS services [2]. On a related note, I built Usage.AI [3] to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances on AWS to cut costs. [1] https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-re-awarded-nsa-cloud-contract-152924596.html https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-re-awarded-nsa-... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/19/cloud-costs-may-bankrupt-you-heres-how-to-fight-back/?sh=6bb306072ed0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/19/cl... [3] https://usage.ai https://usage.ai