🆚 Amazon Web Services vs. Google Cloud

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Amazon Web Services is twice as popular as Google Cloud.
🌎 Amazon Web Services is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Google Cloud is more popular in Italy, the British Virgin Islands, and Gibraltar.

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud

Type

Cloud service

About

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that delivers on-demand IT resources and services over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

It comprises over 200 products, including compute services like EC2 and Lambda, scalable object, block, and file storage, managed relational and NoSQL databases, global networking and content delivery, machine learning and analytics tools, identity and security services,.

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that runs on the same global infrastructure used to power its own products.

It includes infrastructure and platform services such as Compute Engine virtual machines, App Engine platform hosting, Google Kubernetes Engine, serverless compute with Cloud Functions and Cloud Run, object and block storage, scalable relational and NoSQL databases, and CDN.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com

cloud.google.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️12 Months Free: 750H of EC2 compute + 5GB of S3 storage + 50 GB Elastic Container Registry + 750H of Elastic Load Balancing per month;
Always Free: 1M of AWS Lambda requests + 25 GB of Amazon DynamoDB storage

Free tier ✔️1 micro VM instance with 30 GB disk + 1 GB of outbound data transfer + 2M Cloud Run requests + 5 GB of Cloud Storage per month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Amazon Web Services technology is 2.4 times more popular than Google Cloud.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon Web Services is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Google Cloud is more popular in Italy, the British Virgin Islands, and Gibraltar.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Australia

Germany

Brazil

Canada

Italy

Netherlands

India

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.

🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Gibraltar in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Trinidad and Tobago in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Oman in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon Web Services is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Google Cloud is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, travel, and sports sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Health

Marketing/Merchandising

General News