GCP vs AWS for Small-to-Medium Project Deployments: A Practical Comparison
Background Over the past five years at Kwality Consulting Solutions, I’ve deployed projects on AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean. Most of our clients are NGOs, SMEs, and government-adjacent organisations — budget-conscious, but with real uptime requirements. This isn’t a comprehensive benchmark; it’s a practitioner’s notes from real deployments. When I Reach for GCP First 1. Data-Heavy Workloads BigQuery is still in a class of its own for analytical queries over large datasets. For the data visualization work I did with Concern Worldwide and Save the Children, being able to query millions of rows in seconds without managing infrastructure was a genuine game-changer. ...