The 2018 Cloud Report, which investigates the performance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), reveals that AWS substantially outperforms GCP across several criteria, including throughput, CPU, network, I/O performance, and cost, with AWS providing 40% greater throughput in a TPC-C benchmark test. This report, built on extensive testing involving simulated customer workloads and micro-benchmarks, highlights AWS's superior capabilities in network throughput and latency, as well as write and read performance under various configurations. Despite the high-performing results of AWS, the report acknowledges that it did not include Microsoft Azure due to resource limitations, but plans to incorporate it in future analyses. The findings suggest AWS provides better performance at a lower cost, though the report maintains a cloud-neutral stance and plans to continue evaluating multiple cloud providers as the infrastructure landscape evolves.