Discussion on: 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.