I'm hearing a lot of talk from my contacts about AWS just simply denying and hiding any outages until they're undeniably proven - so perhaps the issue is just the fact that GCP is too honest?
I have encountered one instance of "AWS just simply denying and hiding any outages until they're undeniably proven" so far this year, so I suspect it does happen. But overall, I do feel like I've had less unexpected behavior or service interruptions on AWS.
Although this is sort of like talking about which telco carrier is best, I suspect many have had a bad experience, and there are some who have never noticed a problem with whichever service they're using.
Fewer spurious niche "affects only you" problems per customer, times far more customers, may still equal a greater total number of spurious niche problems, though.
For an awkward analogy, it's like being friends with a con artist. They might have conned you once, or maybe even never. But they might also have 1000 other friends that they've conned zero or one times. It may add up to a lot more conning than the average person gets up to!
AWS - 99.9987
GCP - 99.9982
Azure - 99.9792
Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-may-cloud-computing-...
There's a huge anti-Google groupthink here and negative news about Microsoft seems to be pretty muted.
Somehow it seems that Google has managed to disappoint a lot of people.
Yeah, and those people aren't wrong - it's not like Google didn't do their own share of messups.
Still, the upplaying of Googles' faults and downplaying of other companies faults (even when they're the same!) has not been the best outlook of this community lately.
Disclaimer AWS engineer.