Amazon S3 vs Google Compute Engine

• One of the main attractions of S3 is the quality of it's basic services, including security, stored data integrity, and data availability from almost anywhere via almost any system. The snapshot service is one of the best services offered through a cloud, and has always been a required feature for any SAN device I potentially purchase.
• S3 has a strong partnership with EMC, which has allowed S3 to offer a wide variety of services and features that would normally require the customer to purchase an EC device, which opens up high-level storage to smaller companies at an affordable rate.
• S3 has a major lead over other cloud providers due to the S3 service, and the wide range of capabilities. Instead of being a simple "drive" it can natively operate as a web server, hosting a wide array of static content, which reduces server load and costs. This is a major advantage, especially for someone operating within the free tier, where every little bit of processing power is an important resource.
• The final selling point of S3 for myself, was the ability to connect into a wide variety of services, both local Amazon services, such as CloudFront CDN, and remote non-Amazon services such as WordPress backup solutions, which ends up keeping all of my data across the organization at one easy to access, and secure location.

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• GCE is an excellent tool for quick deployment of on demand servers.
• GCE offers the ability to snapshot servers, create host clusters, and auto-scale based on demand.
• GCE is the most cost effective virtual hosting environment we've used. They give up front pricing which is a major plus for us.

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• Security configuration can be a little confusing and sometimes requires making completely new accounts.

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• Web console is a bit slow

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• Regarding the websites, it has been a great ROI we have them all in one location which makes it easy to get too and fast in case of a failure and we need to quickly rebuild the site.
• Using it for our BLOB's on our escrow side of the house the ROI is based on being able to have it in a secure location which is easy to get too and fast when the application needs to access it to build a file.

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• We don't need to hire server admins or infrastructure engineers and instead our web engineers are more than capable of maintaining all of our services.
• Fast-boot VMs and top-tier SLA mean that GCE keeps up with our fast release cycle.
• We use instance templates to quickly launch dedicated services for our clients. They are often amazed at our less than a 24-hour turnaround.

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