Side by side

Amazon EC2 vs Google Cloud Build

Amazon EC2

7.6#1 in infrastructure as a service (iaas) softwareFree plan

Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI

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Google Cloud Build

6.0#17 in container build tools$0.01 usage-based

WebAPILinux

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What both publish

Fact	Amazon EC2	Google Cloud Build
Purpose	Amazon EC2 provides resizable, secure compute capacity as virtual servers in the cloud.	Cloud Build is a serverless CI/CD platform for building, testing, and deploying software on Google Cloud infrastructure.

Amazon EC2 plans

AWS Free Tier credits for EC2Free
Free TierFree
Reserved Instances—
Savings Plans—
Spot Instances—
On-Demand Instances—

Google Cloud Build plans

Cloud Build pay-as-you-go (default pool, e2-standard-2)$0.01 a month

Pick Amazon EC2 if…

EC2 suits teams needing configurable cloud compute for the listed application, enterprise, or specialist workloads. Its instance choice, scaling options, and storage integrations may also fit deployments with changing capacity needs.

Pick Google Cloud Build if…

You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.

Charts they share

Container Build Tools