I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor.
$GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features.
I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net) if they don't have any infrastructure setup or provisioned already. While AWS offers a wider array of integrated services (they do have a large lead time), GCP has learned from all the mistakes of other providers. They started off with a superior project based structure, then per-minute billing, then sustained-use discounts, then Container Engine (GKE), then the Firebase acquisition (genius), now Functions and SQL Postgres support.
$GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features.
I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net) if they don't have any infrastructure setup or provisioned already. While AWS offers a wider array of integrated services (they do have a large lead time), GCP has learned from all the mistakes of other providers. They started off with a superior project based structure, then per-minute billing, then sustained-use discounts, then Container Engine (GKE), then the Firebase acquisition (genius), now Functions and SQL Postgres support.