Great point. I think it's a matter of different philosophies, and both are great for customers!

- AWS gives you specific usage allotments per-month for specific services.

- Google gives you $300 cash for 2 months to use however you please. just don't mine bitcoins or generate email spam :)

- Some folks did the math on AWS free tier to total $247.20 [0]. That is, if you 100% utilize all the allotments.

- Google BigQuery, Firebase, and AppEngine also have perpetual free tiers.

[0] http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/tip/How-much-are-...

(work on Google Cloud)

Thank you for the clarification. :)

Talking of EC2, AWS free tier only allows t2.micro instances (1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM). Might not serve any use to many.

It seems like Google Cloud free trial in several countries (at least in LV,LT,EE) is only available to businesses.

I wanted to give the free trial a go, but wasn't able to register because it did not let me choose account type as "individual".