Inefficient AWS Block Storage Management

“AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report Developer experience on GCP is vastly superior to AWS.<p>- Pricing on GCP is much easier, no need to purchase reserved instances, figure out all the details and buried AWS billing rules. Run your GCP instances and automatically get discounts. AWS reserved instances requires knowing your instance types, knowing that you can purchase the smallest type of an instance class and combine, knowing that you can only purchase 20 reserved instances per zone&#x2F;per region in an account. So many gotchas.<p>- GCP projects by default span all regions. It is much easier if you run multiple regions, all services can communicate with all regions. Multi-region in AWS is sort of a nightmare, setting up VPC peering, can&#x27;t reference security groups across regions, etc..<p>- Custom machine types. With GCE, you simply select the number of cores you need and memory. No trying to decipher the crazy amount of AWS instance types T2, T3, M5, M5a, R5, R5a, C5, C5n, I3...<p>- Instance attached block storage is easier to grok and in my experience is much faster than EBS. The bigger the disk on GCE, the more IOPS. No provisioned IOPS madness.”