Andromeda is one of the many reasons Quizlet observed this:
"We tested snapshotting with 400 GB SSD drives given 300 GB of random data. On AWS, we observed snapshot times around 8 hours, while on GCP the same operation takes about 6 minutes."
https://quizlet.com/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-probably-gcp/I work at Google.