Google App Engine opens up for Google I/O, pricing announced

Post by andreyf » Wed, May 28, 2008, 3:20 PM UTC

greendestiny wrote: post #6

ardit33 wrote: post #4

yawn.... ok. I can't think of serious startups using their services. Maybe if I am doing something quick, a small app, while having a full time job. etc... At least with amazon, you have controll of the servers, and can install whatever you want. With Goggle App Engine your are tied to it to the hip. And Google has been getting eviler lately. For some reason I wouldn't trust my source code with them, while I would tr…

Amazon really wants your business. They want to make a fortune in the compute supply business. This seems like another Google offering that they don't take particularly seriously - that they can offer for free at some level of service because of the enormous river of advertising cash - but you know its not much of blip on their business radar. Mostly these services aid recruitment and keep up Google's profile but I d…

Post by briansmith » Wed, May 28, 2008, 3:47 PM UTC

delano wrote: post #9

DocSavage wrote: post #2

The pay-as-you-go won't be enabled until sometime around the end of the year. The quoted CPU pricing "$0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour" is similar to Amazon EC2 small instance pricing ($0.10/hr), but it's probably not a straight comparison. AppEngine seems to charge by the sip, as might be expected from a compute utility, while web apps will probably require a minimum of 24x7 usage of an EC2 instance. So AppEngine sho…

EC2 charges only for the time you use, rounded to the next hour. A small instance running for 6.1 hours costs $0.70 + bandwidth. http://www.amazon.com/FAQ-EC2-AWS/b?ie=UTF8&node=2015910...