Some of GCP's unique compelling features include live VM migration that makes it less relevant when a host has to reboot, the new life that has recently been put into Google App Engine (both flexible environment and the second generation standard environment runtimes), the global load balancer with a single IP and no pre-warming, and Cloud Spanner.

In terms of feature coverage breadth I started my previous comment by agreeing that AWS was ahead, and I still reaffirm that. But if you randomly select a feature that they both have to a level which purports to meet a given customer requirement, the GCP offering will frequently have advantages over the AWS equivalent.

Examples besides GKE: BigQuery is better regarded than Amazon Redshift, with less maintenance hassle. And EC2 instance, disk, and network performance is way more variable than GCE which generally delivers what it promises.

One bit of praise for AWS: when Amazon does document something, the doc is easier to find and understand, and one is less likely to find something out of date in a way that doesn't work. But GCP is more likely to have documented the thing in the first place, especially in the case of system-imposed limits.

To be clear, I want there to be three or four competitive and widely used cloud options. I just think GCP is now often the best of the major players in the cases where its scope meets customer needs.