Ask HN: Is Amazon a better “data/privacy steward” than Google?
With that said, outside of self hosting, which, IMO is the "best" option - there are opportunities for other vendors. (Best meaning you know what you're doing, hopefully, but at the cost of possibly more money and time.)
Amazon runs and competes w/ Google offerings for across the board - do you think they're better?
They are "Ad-Tech" but my opinion has been that Amazon is "marginally" a better steward for cloud because they don't close shop/projects with little notice - they have many offerings across infrastructure.
They also do not have an open-ID esque SSO that ties your identity/life into one company - something that Google/Microsoft offer though the Microsoft one pales in comparison to Google.
I think it's also fair to compare against "Microsoft" here too, but IMO MSFT's image and privacy policies have vastly improved and are more transparent.
They are also in adtech, they have a search engine - bing but I hardly see Amazon discussed in this aspect.
Microsoft and Google IMO are much more 1:1 as they offer the same LOB - Google Suite/O365, email, etc but Amazon never comes up.