No, I don&#x27;t work at Google. I work for Monsanto. Here is my take on AWS vs Google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;10O1YeNpPjylHLugEz8GInMg3W9DeKy5fHkWxA5T9E8c&#x2F;edit#slide=id.p" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;10O1YeNpPjylHLugEz8GI...</a><p>Performance benchmark summary: (&quot;1X&quot; is AWS)<p>Compute:<p>VMs Price: 30% less<p>Boot time: ¼ X<p>Network between VMs:
Same region: 4X
Across regions: 10X<p>BigQuery vs Redshift : ½ -20X<p>Big Data (Hadoop and Spark): 3X<p>Disks:
Read throughput: 1X
Write throughput: 4X (Ephemeral); 2X (Persistent)<p>Local SSDs:
Read throughput: 8X
Writes throughput: 4X<p>Storage (S3):
Throughput: 2X
Latency: 3X (initial); ½ X (for subsequent reads)