On 12th June 2025, Google Cloud experienced an outage that took down for several hours over 70 services, including GCP APIs, Gmail, Google Calendar, CloudFlare and Spotify. The outage stemmed from an Identity and Access Management glitch and snowballed into a full-blown incident lasting over three hours globally. This was a serious reputational damage for Google Cloud and caused massive productivity and revenue losses from large and small companies hosted on Google Cloud.
If you’re on GCP, this outage is a glaring reminder: your business-critical systems need to rely on a resilient cloud provider. Let’s explore why you should seriously consider migrating from GCP to AWS.
Three Reasons to Migrate to AWS
Below I want to give three reasons to consider migrating from GCP to AWS, which might make you reflect on whether AWS is the better choice.
1. Reliability and Resilience
GCP’s IAM failure shows that even core control plane services can go wrong with ripple effects across dozens of dependent services. AWS, by contrast, has engineered its infrastructure with regional isolation, multiple independent control planes, and redundancy baked in across all major services. This design also lends itself to greater static stability, where critical services remain operational under fixed, predictable conditions without requiring dynamic intervention or scaling responses.
Sure, AWS isn’t immune to issues either - but they tend to be more localised, shorter in duration, and with faster communications and escalation. For leaders focused on minimising operational risk, that control plane resilience is invaluable.
2. Innovation
One big advantage of AWS is staying ahead of the curve. AWS pioneered technologies like Lambda and Spot Instances ahead of its cloud competitors and continues to launch next-gen tools faster and more broadly than GCP.
If your teams rely on things like serverless computing, event-driven architectures, AI/ML, or push-button compliance frameworks, AWS delivers faster. Migrating to AWS means you’re well-positioned to tap into emerging capabilities before your competitors do.
3. AWS Funding Programs
AWS offers funding programs specifically designed to ease the migration process for businesses moving workloads from GCP (as well as other cloud providers). These programs can significantly reduce the financial burden of a migration and allow to free resources that can be used for innovation and growth. As an AWS Migration and Modernization Competency Partner, The Scale Factory can help you access AWS funding programs to support your migration initiatives. AWS can cover the costs of our involvement, even if you choose to lead the migration process yourself.
Conclusion
The GCP outage in June 2025 is a vivid reminder that your cloud provider is a critical business partner, not just another vendor. Migrating from GCP to AWS is a strategic move that you should consider. While I’ve not taken into account any technical comparison between the two cloud providers based on their services (which would have required several blog posts), I hope I’ve provided you with a compelling case for making the switch based on the AWS’s reliability and resilience, their leadership on cloud computing, and programs to fund your migration from GCP to AWS.
Our team knows how to manage the risks around moving data to the cloud. We also know how risky it can be if you don’t have a cloud copy of your critical data. Book a free chat to find out how we can help.
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