The short and sweet of my user story as a hobbyist fullstack developer and wannabe data analyst is AWS has standalone services for your apps that either don&#x27;t exist on GCP or are better than what GCP offers.<p>I&#x27;m talking about pay-as-you-go compute functions with Lambda (I&#x27;m aware that GC Functions are on the way, Lambda has been out for more than a year already), managed Postgres with RDS, and managed task queues with SQS. But GCP&#x27;s console UX is killer compared to AWS, and using BigQuery feels too good to be true compared to how difficult it is to accomplish the same thing with Hadoop&#x2F;Spark.