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ticku | karma -2 | avg karma -2.0 · 2016-04-17 18:49:12

Are they even comparable? AWS offers full virtual machines. I was under the impression that GCE offers a more high level platform where you run your code in their proprietery environment?

If I am not mistaken, using GCE means you are locked in and cannot migrate away easily. That's why I never looked into it closely. I don't want to be at the mercy of a provider.

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pki | karma 442 | avg karma 2.58 · 2016-04-17 18:51:33+00:00

GCE ~= EC2

GAE ~= Elastic Beanstalk

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jspaetzel | karma 389 | avg karma 2.51 · 2016-04-17 21:16:55

Might as well toss the azure comparble ones in here while we're at it.

Azure Virtual Machines ~= Google Compute Engine ~= Amazon EC2

Azure Websites/App Service ~= Google App Engine ~= Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

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grogenaut | karma 5132 | avg karma 1.99 · 2016-04-18 05:29:18

I would say more correctly GAE ~= Lambda

bpicolo | karma 6988 | avg karma 2.56 · 2016-04-17 18:52:07

GCE is just VMs

xrstf | karma 1000 | avg karma 5.88 · 2016-04-17 18:52:12+00:00

Google Compute Engine offers virtual machines, Google App Engine is the special app platform where you have no control over the individual instances that your app runs on.

davidcgl | karma 1162 | avg karma 19.69 · 2016-04-17 19:04:29+00:00

My guess is OP meant to say AWS vs GCP (Google Cloud Platform) instead of GCE (Google Compute Engine).

dmourati | karma 1032 | avg karma 1.89 · 2016-04-17 19:09:10+00:00

That's my read as well. Google has a bit of a hurdle to overcome in explaining their acronyms. AWS has a 10-year head start.