The Basics

Amazon Web Services
Website aws.amazon.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2006
Data Center Locations 31
Example Customers Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Google Cloud
Website cloud.google.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2008
Data Center Locations 40
Example Customers PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

Cost Comparison

How do Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration Amazon Web Services Google Cloud
VM Small $7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro) $20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium $119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge) $90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large $248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge) $179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage $8.00 / mo 100 GB $4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $24.63 / mo 1 TB $24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer $29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium) $93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small) $35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions $36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration $47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $92.16 $111.60

Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud offer:

Service Amazon Web Services Google Cloud
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

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Our data for Amazon Web Services was last updated on Feb. 29, 2024, and for Google Cloud on Feb. 10, 2024.