GCP vs AWS 2022 Comparison

What is GCP

Google Cloud Platform is a suite of public cloud computing services. GCP offers over 50 services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings in the categories of computing, storage, networking, AI/Machine Learning platforms, big data, and the internet of things (IoT), cloud management, security, and developer tools. GCP offers application development and integration services such as Firebase.

What is AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud platform offered by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN), has become a colossal component of the e-commerce giant's business portfolio. AWS is a platform that provides flexible, trustworthy, scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective cloud computing solutions.

AWS offers: 1. Free tier – inexpensive, burst performance (t3 family) 2.. Compute-optimized (c5 family) 3. GPU instances (p3 family) 4. FPGA instances (f1 family) 5. Memory-optimized (x1, r5 family) 6. Storage optimized (i3, d2, h1 family)

GCP offers: 1. Free tier – inexpensive, burst performance (f1/g1 family) 2. Standard, shared core (n1-standard family) 3. High memory (n1-highmem family) 4. High CPU (n1-highCPU family)