AWS vs Google Cloud

Round by round

1. Round 1The cheapest H100AWS wins
   AWS8/10

   $6.88

   p5.48xlarge $55.04/hr for 8x H100 = $6.88 per GPU-hour, on-demand, US East

   • worked out from $41.528 an hour for a p5.48xlarge with eight H100s, US regions

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $11.06

   worked out from $88.49 an hour for an a3-highgpu-8g with eight H100s

   • $11.06, against $5.19

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   AWS wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

2. Round 2The cheapest A100AWS wins
   AWS8/10

   $2.74

   worked out from $21.958 an hour for a p4d.24xlarge with eight A100s

   Source: instances.vantage.sh ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $3.67

   worked out from $29.38708 an hour for an a2-highgpu-8g with eight A100s

   • $3.67, against $2.74

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   AWS wins this round on independent review-site data, not on its own claims.

3. Round 3What it costs to get your data outAWS wins
   AWS8/10

   First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB

   data transfer out to the internet

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $0.12 per GiB to start

   premium-tier internet egress to North America after the first GiB

   • $0.12 per GiB to start, against First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   AWS wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

4. Round 4How many places it runsGoogle Cloud wins
   AWS5/10

   39

   Geographic Regions

   • 34 regions, against 43 regions

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Google Cloud8/10

   43 regions

   global regions

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Google Cloud wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

5. Round 5How precisely you are billedTie
   AWS7/10

   Per-second, 60-second minimum

   on-demand instances are billed by the hour or second

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Google Cloud7/10

   Per-second after the first minute

   vCPUs, GPUs and memory are charged a one-minute minimum, then per second

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Nothing to separate them here.

6. Round 6The cheapest L4Google Cloud wins
   AWS5/10

   $0.80/hr (g6.xlarge)

   EC2 on-demand, US East (N. Virginia), Linux

   • $0.80/hr (g6.xlarge), against $0.71/hr (g2-standard-4)

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Google Cloud8/10

   $0.71/hr (g2-standard-4)

   Compute Engine on-demand (US); Cloud Run for serverless

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Google Cloud wins this round on what the published sources say.

7. Round 7What storage costs per monthAWS wins
   AWS8/10

   $0.08/GB-mo (EBS gp3)

   EC2 on-demand, US East (N. Virginia), Linux

   Source: aws.amazon.com ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD)

   Compute Engine on-demand (US); Cloud Run for serverless

   • $0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD), against $0.08/GB-mo (EBS gp3)

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   AWS wins this round on what the published sources say.

8. Round 8Whether GPUs can run serverlessGoogle Cloud wins
   AWS5/10

   No GPUs in Serverless Inference

   EC2 on-demand, US East (N. Virginia), Linux

   • No GPUs in Serverless Inference, against Yes (Cloud Run L4 GPUs)

   Source: docs.aws.amazon.com ↗

   Google Cloud8/10

   Yes (Cloud Run L4 GPUs)

   Compute Engine on-demand (US); Cloud Run for serverless

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Google Cloud wins this round on what the published sources say.

Side by side

AWS

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Google Cloud

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Overall score

6.3

Best

6.0

Price

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The cheapest H100

6.3

5.0

The cheapest A100

6.1

5.0

What it costs to get your data out

6.1

5.3

How many places it runs

6.2

7.0

Head-to-head findings

The cheapest H100

$6.88

$11.06

The cheapest A100

$2.74

$3.67

What it costs to get your data out

First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB

$0.12 per GiB to start

How many places it runs

39

43 regions

How cheap you can start

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What customers say on Trustpilot

1.3 out of 5

1.4 out of 5

How precisely you are billed

Per-second, 60-second minimum

Per-second after the first minute

What storage costs per month

$0.08/GB-mo (EBS gp3)

$0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD)

Record

Head-to-head record

3–4

0–7

Head-to-heads won

43 %

0 %

Rounds won

37 %

24 %

Pros

• AWS Regions
• worked out from $41.528 an hour for a p5.48xlarge with eight H100s, US regions
• worked out from $47.76 an hour for a p5e.48xlarge with eight H200s

Cons

• $5.19, against $1.99
• $2.74, against $1.19
• $5.97, against $3.59
• First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB, against No egress fees

• $11.06, against $1.99
• $3.67, against $1.19
• $0.12 per GiB to start, against No egress fees
• 1.4 out of 5, against 3.8 out of 5

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