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AWS vs Google Cloud: Full Comparison

Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform are the two most powerful cloud providers on the market. AWS leads in service breadth (200+ products) and market share, while GCP leads in AI/ML capabilities, data analytics, and Kubernetes-native features. This comparison covers pricing, key services, regional availability, and which platform suits which workloads.

Overall Score

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Amazon Web Services

Trailing

Wins 3/10 categories

Google Cloud

Leading

★ Recommended

Wins 5/10 categories

Our Verdict

AWS wins on service breadth and ecosystem maturity. GCP wins on AI/ML, BigQuery analytics, and Kubernetes (GKE is the reference K8s implementation). For most general workloads: AWS. For data science and ML: GCP.

Pros & Cons

AWS

Amazon Web Services

Wins at

Market Share
Services Count
Ecosystem/Integrations

Loses at

AI/ML Platform
Managed Kubernetes
Data Warehouse
GCP

Google Cloud

Wins at

AI/ML Platform
Managed Kubernetes
Data Warehouse
Global Regions

Loses at

Market Share
Services Count
Ecosystem/Integrations

Full Feature Comparison

Feature
AWS
GCP
Winner
Market Share
#1 globally (33%)
#3 globally (11%)
AWS
Services Count
200+ services
150+ services
AWS
AI/ML Platform
SageMaker
Vertex AI (better)
GCP
Managed Kubernetes
EKS
GKE (reference impl.)
GCP
Data Warehouse
Redshift
BigQuery (serverless)
GCP
Global Regions
33 regions
40 regions
GCP
Free Tier
12 months + always free
$300 trial + always free
Pricing Complexity
Complex
Simpler
GCP
Ecosystem/Integrations
Largest ecosystem
Growing
AWS
Support Quality
Excellent (paid tiers)
Excellent (paid tiers)

Which Should You Choose?

Choose AWS if…

Choose AWS if: you need the widest service selection, your team already knows AWS, you're building on established stacks (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS), or you need the largest partner/tooling ecosystem.

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Choose GCP if…

Choose GCP if: your primary workload is ML/AI, you use BigQuery for analytics, you want managed Kubernetes with GKE, or you prefer simpler pricing for compute.

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AWS

Amazon Web Services

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Full platform access

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$15/account
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Dedicated compute

8 vCPU Account

$35/account
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Dedicated compute

32 vCPU Account

$80/account
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GCP

Google Cloud

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$300credit

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$300 GCP Credit

$45/account
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$400 GCP Credit

$55/account
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$1,000 GCP Credit

$199/account
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