Anecdotally I tend to agree with the author. But this really isn't a great way of comparing cloud services. The fundamental problem with cloud reliability is t

Anecdotally I tend to agree with the author. But this really isn't a great way of comparing cloud services. The fundamental problem with cloud reliability is that it depends on a lot of stuff that's out of your control, that you have no visibility into. I have had services running happily on AWS with no errors, and the next month without changing anything they fail all the time. Why? Well, we look into it and it turns out AWS changed something behind the scenes. There's a different underlying hardware behind the instance, or some resource started being in high demand because of some other customers. So, I completely believe that at the time of this test, this particular API was performing a lot better on AWS than on GCP. But I wouldn't count on it still performing this way a month later. Cloud services aren't like a piece of dedicated hardware where you test it one month, and then the next month it behaves roughly the same. They are changing a lot of stuff that you can't see.