AWS vs Google Cloud: Flexibility vs operational simplicity

I wanted to revisit a theory I first wrote about in my 15 April 2015 e-mail newsletter — how the approach of Amazon Web Services is different from Google Cloud Platform — and add that to my theory on how containers are core to Google’s Cloud Platform strategy.

The core theory

On the surface, AWS and GCP are very similar, but their approach to product design is actually quite different:

• Amazon Web Services: Flexibility. They provide a huge range of sophisticated…