In recent years, AWS has become the de facto standard cloud provider. As we’ll see in this article, it may be worth jumping off the bandwagon and taking a serious look at the Google Cloud. — Last updated on August 20, 2018. Having used both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for several projects, here I’ll highlight the differences between the two solutions as they relate to pricing, cloud products, instance configurations, and free trials.