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Last discussed Sep 29, 2026

Google's cloud computing services and infrastructure platform

How Google Cloud compares

4 creators weighed in
Azure Direct rival
Microsoft's cloud computing platform

Google Cloud is growing faster than Azure, with Peter noting it outpaced Azure on both revenue growth and speed.

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Aaron Katz

"We go to market with AWS. We go to market with Google Cloud. We go to market with Azure."

One of three major hyperscalers ClickHouse works with alongside AWS and Azure

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Rory O'Driscoll

"Google Cloud, the smallest, grew 82%."

Compared to AWS and Microsoft Azure in the cloud inference growth story

TBPN

"GCP is growing faster than AWS and Azure."

Growing faster than AWS and Azure

Peter Diamandis

"Google Cloud hit 20 billion revenue with 63% growth, outpacing both AWS and Azure."

Outpacing both AWS and Azure

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"GCP and Firestore for the hosting"

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Jordi Hays
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vs: Used as a parallel to Meta Enterprise Platform's potential revenue composition

"All the growth in Google Cloud Platform is selling TPUs — it was a little bit more nuanced than that, but there's a bunch of ways to wrap up revenue into an enterprise platform."

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Ben Thompson
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Used for: Apple using Google Cloud for AI inference vs: Mentioned alongside Nvidia chips as Apple's current AI infrastructure

"There's a reason they're using Google Cloud and Nvidia chips, but you can certainly imagine a future where that's the case and they're in physical goods."

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vs: Listed alongside AWS, Rackspace, and DigitalOcean as examples of cloud providers

"They were just desperate for you to fire up something new on AWS or Google Cloud or whatever it happens to be, Rackspace, all these great cloud providers, DigitalOcean, etc."

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Rory O'Driscoll
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vs: Compared to AWS and Microsoft Azure in the cloud inference growth story

"Google Cloud, the smallest, grew 82%."

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"Is this an AWS Google Cloud?"

John Coogan
mentioned

"Google Cloud revenue surged 82% year-over-year to nearly 24.8 billion."

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"Google Cloud accelerated to 82% growth, which is insane. Its cloud business brought in 24.8 billion and its search business generated 63 billion."

"Meta Platforms is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business to sell access to AI computing power and models competing with industry lead..."

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Harry Stebbings
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"Google accelerates cloud to 82% year-on-year growth, but posts its first ever negative free cash flow."

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Jonathan Ross
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Used for: Spinning up servers for personal AI hobby projects vs: Mentioned alongside AWS as interchangeable cloud options for hobby projects

"I'll spin up a server in GCP or AWS and I'll just start building stuff."

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Paul Erlanger
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vs: Mentioned alongside AWS as cloud providers to potentially replace with bare m...

"Maybe someone who's already set up bare metal servers so we don't have to pay so much money to AWS or Google Cloud."

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Jason Lemkin
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Praised: Historically succeeded by being cheapest option vs: AWS was first, Microsoft second, Google Cloud third in cloud market

"GCP, old Google Cloud blew up because it was cheapest. A generation ago, Google Cloud struggled in the beginning, and then it was just cheapest and simple, and so people would move certain workloads a generation ago to Google Cloud."

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Matthew Prince
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vs: Traditional container approach that requires more CPU resources than Cloudfla...

"Each of those agents was running in a container, a traditional container like something you get at a AWS or a Google Cloud, the amount of just CPU resources that would be needed to run just those agents is about 50% of the total CPU capacity."

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Thomas Laffont
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vs: Used as revenue milestone that OpenAI and Anthropic surpassed

"Now even bigger than Google Cloud and Azure."

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TBPN
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Praised: Strong growth performance

"Google Cloud is doing great, you know. Growth"

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"GCP is growing faster than AWS and Azure."

"Google Cloud hit 20 billion up 63%. Now it is smaller than Amazon and that's why AWS is people are hunting for high 20 growth rates maybe begins wi..."

Liam Ottley
critical

"A full day of collecting API keys, setting up a Google Cloud, all of that rubbish, enabling different APIs in the Google Cloud, then you've got to build a skill so the workspace knows how to use it — on and on and on. And in this case, it's litera..."

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