Spotifier here.  Frankly, price is not the biggest factor in a decision like this.  If we were going for the <i>lowest cost</i> cloud option, it probably wouldn&#x27;t be either AWS or Google - there are other providers who are hungrier for business that would be willing to do deep cuts at our scale.<p>The way we think about this is that there are basically two classes of cloud services: commodities and differentiated services.  Commodities are storage&#x2F;network&#x2F;compute, and the big players are going to compete on price and quality on these for the foreseeable future (as with most commodities).<p>The differentiated services stuff is a bit more interesting.  Different players have different strengths and weaknesses here - AWS has way, way better capabilities when it comes to administration and access control and identity management, for example (which is actually pretty important when trying to do this in a large org).  The places were Google is strong (data platform) are the places that are most important for us as a business.<p>Compelling: dataproc+gcs, bigquery, pubsub, dataflow
Made it safe: high-enough quality, cheap enough.<p>What more would you like to know?