AWS vs Google Cloud Platform Cloud Comparison

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Verdict

Service breadth
AWS
AWS offers 235 services across 14 categories, vs 143 across 14.
Price posture
Insufficient data
Not enough directly comparable priced services (2) for a fair price verdict.
Compliance
Tied
Both providers hold 13 tracked certifications.
Global reach
AWS
AWS operates 15 regions across 6 continents, vs 10.
Health index
AWS
AWS scores 97/100 (grade A) on our health index, vs 83/100 (B).

Choose AWS if you need the widest catalog of services, or global region coverage is critical, or operational track record is your priority.

Choose Google Cloud Platform if you need one of its 99 services without an equivalent on the other side.

Pricing figures on this page: all verified since 192d ago (oldest displayed price).

Quick Comparison

MetricAWSGoogle Cloud Platform
Founded 2006 2008
Headquarters Seattle, USA Mountain View, USA
Market Share 29% 12%
Active Services 235 143
Regions 15 10
Latest Revenue $100B $35B

Services by Category

37
AI/ML
13
13
Analytics
11
29
Compute
18
13
Database
8
22
Developer Tools
14
9
IoT
1
29
Management
22
12
Media
4
11
Messaging
4
9
Migration
4
15
Networking
12
7
Other
8
22
Security
13
7
Storage
11
AWS Google Cloud Platform

Equivalent Services (38)

Service TypeAWSGoogle Cloud Platform
Virtual Machines Amazon EC2 from $0.0052/hour Compute Engine from $0.00838/hour
Managed Kubernetes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) from $0.0015/hour Google Kubernetes Engine from $50.00/1M GB/hours
Container Instances AWS Fargate Cloud Run from $2.50/1M GiB-seconds
Container Registry Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Artifact Registry
Batch Processing AWS Batch Batch
App Platform (PaaS) AWS Elastic Beanstalk App Engine
Spot/Preemptible VMs Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Spot VMs
VMware Cloud VMware Cloud on AWS VMware Engine
Object Storage Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) from $0.0025/1M Objects Cloud Storage from $0.0012/GB/month
Block Storage Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Persistent Disk
File Storage Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) from $0.008/GB/month Filestore
Archive Storage Amazon S3 Glacier Cloud Storage for Firebase
Backup Service AWS Backup Backup and DR Service
Managed PostgreSQL Amazon Aurora from $0.0730/hour AlloyDB for PostgreSQL from $0.0005/GB/month
In-Memory Cache Amazon ElastiCache from $0.0034/1M Elasti Cache Processing Units Memorystore from $0.0140/GB/hour
Database Migration AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Database Migration Service
Speech-to-Text Amazon Transcribe from $13.00/1M Seconds Speech-to-Text
Text-to-Speech Amazon Polly from $4.00/1M Characters Text-to-Speech
Translation Amazon Translate from $15.00/1M Characters Translation AI
Computer Vision Amazon Rekognition from $10.00/1M Users-Mos Vision AI
DNS Service Amazon Route 53 from $0.2000/1M Queries Cloud DNS from $0.2000/zone/month
Virtual Private Network Amazon VPC Virtual Private Cloud
Source Code Repository AWS CodeCommit Cloud Source Repositories
Monitoring & Observability Amazon CloudWatch from $0.0100/1M Samples Scanneds Cloud Monitoring
Cost Management AWS Cost Explorer Cost Management
Transit Gateway / Hub AWS Transit Gateway Network Connectivity Center
PrivateLink / Private Endpoints AWS PrivateLink Private Service Connect
SIEM / Threat Detection Amazon GuardDuty Security Command Center
Serverless Functions AWS Lambda from $0.0309/1M GB-seconds Cloud Functions from $0.2310/1M 100ms
Managed Relational Database Amazon RDS from $0.0170/hour Cloud SQL from $0.0105/hour
NoSQL Document Database Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatability) from $0.0900/vCPU/hour Firestore from $0.0120/100K
Key-Value / Wide Column Store Amazon DynamoDB from $0.1000/1M Change Data Capture Units Bigtable
CDN / Content Delivery Amazon CloudFront from $0.6000/1M requests Cloud CDN from $0.0075/10K
Data Warehouse Amazon Redshift from $70.00/1M seconds BigQuery from $0.0100/200 MB
Stream Processing Amazon Kinesis from $0.0140/1M Put Requests Dataflow from $54.00/1M GB/hours
Business Intelligence Amazon QuickSight from $0.2500/GB/month Looker
Security Compliance Dashboard AWS Audit Manager Assured Workloads
Application Discovery AWS Application Discovery Service Migration Center

Unique Services

Only in AWS (173)

  • AWS Amplify
  • AWS App Mesh
  • AWS App Studio
  • AWS App2Container
  • AWS AppFabric
  • AWS AppSync
  • AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
  • AWS Artifact
  • AWS Budgets
  • AWS Certificate Manager
  • AWS Clean Rooms
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
  • AWS Cloud Map
  • AWS Cloud WAN
  • AWS Cloud9
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS CloudHSM
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS CodeDeploy
  • AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • + 153 more

Only in Google Cloud Platform (99)

  • API Gateway
  • Active Assist
  • Agent Platform
  • Agent Search
  • Anti Money Laundering AI
  • Apigee API Management
  • AppSheet
  • AppSheet Automation
  • Application Integration
  • Application Migration
  • Bare Metal
  • Blockchain Node Engine
  • Blockchain RPC
  • Carbon Footprint
  • Chrome Enterprise
  • Chrome Enterprise Premium
  • Cloud APIs
  • Cloud Build
  • Cloud Code
  • Cloud Connectivity
  • + 79 more

Compliance Certifications

Both (13)

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 ISO 27017 ISO 27018 HIPAA PCI DSS FedRAMP GDPR CSA STAR C5 SOC 1 Type II ISO 9001 SOC 3

SLA Guarantees

Service TypeAWSGoogle Cloud Platform
compute 99.99% 99.99%
database 99.99% 99.95%
networking 99.99% 99.99%
storage 99.99% 99.95%

Regions by Continent

ContinentAWSGoogle Cloud Platform
Africa 1 0
Asia 4 3
Europe 3 2
North America 5 3
Oceania 1 1
South America 1 1
Total 15 10

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