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The big difference is AWS doesn't provide a GSLB (global server load balancing) service outside of Cloudfront. GCP on the other hand provides L7 GSLB.

You still need to create VPCs in each region and manage those but broadly speaking building a multi-region architecture with GCP is a lot better. Hell multi-zone is also easier in GCP because there are more regional primitives available.



Would https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/ be what you’re talking about?


I haven't actually used this but this looks very similar to Google GSLB actually, in which case that is great news.


I think the bigger difference is that layer-2 really doesn’t exist in GCP or Azure but it sort-of does in AWS.

This is why virtual nets can span geographic or AZ boundaries in non-AWS clouds; they always basically do layer-3 routing even for “local subnet” traffic.


AWS also let's you DNS load balance on top of regional load balancers (there is some DNS traffic management with health check integration)


Yes, R53 can help you build your own GSLB by using DNS health checks and georouting but it's not the full picture.




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