Comparison between AWS and Google Cloud Platform

Comparison between AWS and Google Cloud Platform
 

Points Considered	AWS	GCP	Winner
Geographical presence	Almost present in all continents. 9-regions 42-edge locations	GCE(Google Compute Engine) is present only in US and Europe.	AWS
Regions and availability zones	9-regions 25 AZs	2-regions 4 AZs	AWS
VM types and families	23-instance types classified in 6 families	It has 12 machine types classfied into 5 families	AWS
Vritual Compute Units	Roughly equivalent to 1.2GHz 2007 Xeon/Opteron processor	Same as AWS	Both
Choice of OS	Supports Linux, CentOS, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012	Supports CentOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. No support for Microsoft Windows Server.	AWS
Purchasing Options	Can be bought on-demand, reserved and spot purchasing plans	Only supports on-demand.	AWS
Billing Model	Instance by hour and partial hours are rounded of to an hour	GCE machines are charged a minimum of 10 minutes. After that instances are charged in 1 minute increments, rounded up to the nearest minute.	GCE
Persistance Storage	Amazon supports PIOPS(Provisioned Input Output Operations per Second) for EBS(Elastic Block Storage). Each EBS volume can be attached to only one instance at a time.	It Supports persistent desks support upto 10 TB. Disks can be mounted read-write by one instance or read-only by many instance.	GCE
VM import and export	Amazon EC2 supports importing and exporting of MS Vms created as VMDK, VHD and RAW formats. Linux is not Supproted	It only supports importing the VM Running popular Linux distributions. It doesn't support Microsoft Windows.	AWS in case of windows GCE in case of Linux
Services Avaialable	Wider range of services available with quality.	Services are less as compare to AWS	AWS
Load Balancing	AWS Load Balancer needs pre-warning	GCE Load Balancer doesn't need any pre-warning	GCE
Ease of Use	A bit of time consuming as per user experience.	Cleaner Interface and management console	CGE