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Amazon Web Services vs Google Cloud

Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud offer 10 of the 12 services in the site's service map. This page lines them up one service at a time, says where one has no equivalent and why, and shows what the example workloads cost on each at public on-demand list prices.

Service by service

Each row is one job in the example workloads. The service shown is the closest equivalent the map has chosen for that cloud; where there is none, the row says so and gives the reason. Equivalence is chosen carefully: services are compared only when they bill in comparable ways.

JobAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud
IoT device gatewayAWS IoT CoreNot offered
Google retired Cloud IoT Core on 16 Aug 2023. The usual path now is a partner MQTT broker in front of Pub/Sub.
Event streamingAmazon Kinesis Data Streams (on-demand)Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Stream processingAmazon Managed Service for Apache FlinkGoogle Cloud Dataflow (streaming)
Time-series databaseAmazon Timestream for InfluxDBGoogle Cloud Bigtable
Object storageAmazon S3 StandardGoogle Cloud Storage (Standard, regional)
General-purpose VMAmazon EC2 (M6i)Google Compute Engine (N2)
Edge runtimeAWS IoT GreengrassNot offered
Google has no managed IoT edge runtime since IoT Core was retired. Google Distributed Cloud is a hardware offering for larger sites.
Managed PostgreSQLAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL (M6i, gp3)Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL (Enterprise)
HTTP load balancerApplication Load BalancerCloud Load Balancing (global external Application Load Balancer)
Internet data transferAWS data transfer outGoogle Cloud network egress (Premium Tier)
SQL on the data lakeAmazon AthenaBigQuery (on-demand, external tables on Cloud Storage)
Batch data transformAWS Glue ETL jobsGoogle Cloud Dataflow (batch)

Where they differ

  • Both offer a service for 10 of 12 jobs.
  • Amazon Web Services offers AWS IoT Core for "IoT device gateway"; Google Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Google retired Cloud IoT Core on 16 Aug 2023. The usual path now is a partner MQTT broker in front of Pub/Sub.
  • Amazon Web Services offers AWS IoT Greengrass for "Edge runtime"; Google Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Google has no managed IoT edge runtime since IoT Core was retired. Google Distributed Cloud is a hardware offering for larger sites.

Example workload totals

Monthly totals for the site's example factories, from the same calculation as the estimator, at Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud on-demand list prices in USD, as of 2 Nov 2026. A total is marked incomplete when a cloud lacks a service or a price for the workload; an incomplete total is partial, is not comparable, and is never called the lower one.

ExampleRegionAmazon Web ServicesGoogle CloudLower complete total
Small factory: 100 devicesIndia (Mumbai / Pune)$547$771 (incomplete)Not comparable
Small factory: 100 devicesUS East (Virginia / S. Carolina)$482$671 (incomplete)Not comparable
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devicesIndia (Mumbai / Pune)$1,024$918 (incomplete)Not comparable
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devicesUS East (Virginia / S. Carolina)$925$800 (incomplete)Not comparable
Multi-site: 10,000 devicesIndia (Mumbai / Pune)$5,431$2,375 (incomplete)Not comparable
Multi-site: 10,000 devicesUS East (Virginia / S. Carolina)$4,991$2,091 (incomplete)Not comparable

Regions compared

  • India (Mumbai / Pune): Amazon Web Services ap-south-1, Google Cloud asia-south1.
  • US East (Virginia / S. Carolina): Amazon Web Services us-east-1, Google Cloud us-east1.

Price catalog

Amazon Web Services has 3,007 SKUs in the price catalog. Google Cloud is not in the catalog yet. Learn more on the Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud pages, or estimate your own workload.

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