AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud

I have used GCP and AWS so far... I favor AWS slightly over GCP.

GCP

Pros:

• Cost
• Browser SSH for quick debugging (cloud shell)
• Instant resizing of disks, memory for the compute instances
• Cloud Pub/Sub is great
• Firebase is useful for prototyping

Cons:

• Support. They need to improve this and be more customer focused.
• Reliability - There have been a few incidents where their network was down. But they have been quite stable since.

AWS

Pros:

• Reliability - The best among the major cloud provider
• Support - They understand customer pain points very well. Even their free tier support is helpful.
• Documentation - Comprehensive and generally up to date
• They have never killed any existing service. Even deprecated ones are still around though customers are discouraged from using them.

Cons:

• Cost - AWS is generally more expensive than GCP
• Calculating costs - Sometimes I feel we need a PhD in Cloud Economics to calculate AWS bill especially with Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudwatch.
• Too many services with weird names or acronyms. Keeping track of them can become cumbersome.

If you're a Windows shop: Azure > AWS > GCP.
If you want to get started learning in order to get a job: AWS > Azure > GCP. There's just more jobs and documentation on AWS than the others, though Azure is catching up quickly.
My personal favorite is Azure, the UI and support has been way better to manage than AWS. GCP UI is overcomplicated.

AWS > Azure > GCP

I've just published an app on AWS with cloudfront distribution. What I can say is, even though many claim it's very complicated, it's surprisingly well documented. I registered a domain, uploaded files for a static site on S3, and setup a cloudfront https distribution in a day.

I use both AWS and GCP.

On GCP I use:

• Cloud Speech-To-Text. I don’t see any competitor that gets it more accurately than Google.
• Firebase Realtime Database. I don’t see anything that’s more simple to use.
• Cloud Run. I don’t see anything like this on AWS. Tried Fargate before but the last time I tried, for a large container, it times out booting up. I don’t see any real competitor for Cloud Run yet.

On AWS I use:

• Cloud9. I like it that I can choose from a whole catalog of EC2 instance types and pay just for the EC2 price. Cloud9 auto-shutdowns the EC2 instance when unused, so an $80/mo machine ended up costing me just $20/mo. I also use Cloud9 to develop projects running on GCP. I tried Google Cloud Shell but for me it’s not a good substitute.
• Lambda. The last time I benchmarked it (by invoking simultaneously thousands compute-intensive functions) I found Lambda to be the most stable.

AWS — Does everything, super complex because super complete, state of the art

GCP — Slightly simpler, full of Google-specific quirks

Azure — Ow gawd will I ever manage to create an account? How many errors 500 can a mainstream cloud provider get per second? Does anything work in there?

A GCP fanboy right here. Their Kubernetes as a service (GKE) is #1. I think GCP is super under rated if you look at the cost and the services that you get. Also their dashboard is pretty straightforward compared to AWS and Azure where I can never navigate properly.

👏 Let's 👏 go 👏 multi 👏 cloud 👏.

Hi all!

I would say AWS > GCP

Favorite thing from AWS: Lambda, S3 + Cloudfront. There you can get a web app up and running in less than a day.
Favorite thing from GCP: Shell console and Kubernetes :)

I hate from AWS: Pricing... ugh
I hate from GCP: The UI is kind of complicated, it's like they are stashing a lot of stuff in little space.

I have never used Azure, even though I'm open to <3

azure is by far the best one i've used so far*

*i've only used azure. :D

we use azure devops at work for source control with git and last week i decided to give the extra bits a whirl, so now i'm busy reading up on pipelines and deployment and so on (having tons of fun with their learning paths). also, i committed to doing a showcase this friday about using azure pipelines to build and deploy a docker container when a PR succeeds...

I have used Azure to deploy web apps.

I have used AWS to create a VM.

• Azure has user friendly UX, its easy to understand.

• I heard that AWS is costly than Azure.

• Recently in Microsoft Build 2020, they announced new AI supercomputer .

• AWS to Azure services comparison is handy to compare as required.

I can't stress this enough: the differences are not always dispositive!

I am often dealing with someone who has already chosen a cloud, has data in that cloud or an enterprise agreement. Data/cloud "gravity" has set in.

On the merits in isolation?

AWS: market share
Azure: Corp IT
GCP: Predefined workflows (e.g. Firebase family, BQ warehouse)

I use Digital Ocean for my small projects & I even recommend it to my clients.

Certified with both GCP and AWS

GCP UX > AWS UX

At least, I love cloud shell and cloud9 doesn't cut it.

That said, I have a slight preference for AWS because of the community

I used AWS years ago and it was ok.
I've been using Azure for many years now and it's fantastic.
I've been using GCP and in particular Firebase for a couple of years now and it's incredible.

What I remember as a huge pain with Azure and wouldn't want to go through it again is their active directory and the integration with a web app. A REALLY BIG PAIN.

Firebase (on GCP) makes your users login very simple and this is what I use today if I have the chance.

Cheers!