Amazon Web Services vs Google Cloud: reliability compared

Based purely on the incidents the providers themselves published on their official status pages over the last 90 days. Over that period, Google Cloud shows the better uptime.

90d uptime
Incidents (90d)
0
Last
5 months ago
90 days agotoday

Google Cloud

Operational
90d uptime
100.00 %
Incidents (90d)
1
Last
4 days ago
90 days agotoday

How to read this

Amazon Web Services currently reports “Operational”, Google Cloud reports “Operational”. A provider that publishes a lot of incidents is not necessarily less reliable — it is often the sign of an honest, granular status page. The number that matters is total downtime, shown above.

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