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Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs Google Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is more reliable than Google Cloud, scoring 61.8 vs 56.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported 7 incidents and Google Cloud reported 4, with effective uptime of 99.43% and 98.90% respectively. Google Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (10h 56m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 61.8 | 56.4 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #3 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.43% | 98.90% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 7 | 4 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 11h 44m | 10h 56m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud differ
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported 75% more incidents than Google Cloud over the last 90 days (7 vs 4).
- Google Cloud had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Google Cloud fixes problems faster: 10h 56m on average, against 11h 44m for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s longest outage on record lasted 3d (Mar 2, 2026); Google Cloud's lasted 3d (Jun 5, 2026).
90-day uptime
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Affected: apigateway, us-west-2
- Degraded performanceOct 4, 2026 · resolved in 2h 42m
Affected: internetconnectivity, eu-south-2
- Degraded performanceSep 21, 2026 · resolved in 58m
Affected: ec2, us-east-1
- Degraded performanceSep 3, 2026 · resolved in 2h 18m
Affected: multipleservices, us-west-2
- Degraded performanceAug 21, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Affected: connect, ap-northeast-1
- Degraded performanceAug 19, 2026 · resolved in 3h 32m
Affected: ec2, eu-west-2
Recent Google Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1d 5h
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) customers experienced elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.official update ↗
Affected: Google Cloud Storage
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.61% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime
- DigitalOcean · #6 · 98.04% uptime