It would be really cool if they provide a free trial account as Amazon though.
Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
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Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#22Expensive, and good luck getting client trust back after what they did with App Engine.
What's wrong with GAE? Honest question, I was considering deploying my next project there
Nothing, but there was a steep price increase when App Engine went "out of beta". This upset some people. Especially because there is a lock-in effect if you build on top of App Engine's proprietary APIs.
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#23Expensive, and good luck getting client trust back after what they did with App Engine.
What's wrong with GAE? Honest question, I was considering deploying my next project there
Snapchat runs on GAE so it must not be too bad.
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#24For those planning "wow, I can use the google datacenters, to scale to such level", first check this part:
https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/resource-quotas
Just in case.
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with GAE? Honest question, I was considering deploying my next project there
Nothing, but there was a steep price increase when App Engine went "out of beta". This upset some people. Especially because there is a lock-in effect if you build on top of App Engine's proprietary APIs.
> there is a lock-in effect if you build on top of App Engine's proprietary APIs.
No. There hasn't been for quite some time.
http://www.appscale.com/ provides hosting services on top of an open-source codebase you can (with some effort) deploy on your own.
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#26I am not going to move from EC2 with this prices and with this features and community.
I hope they are going to make it more appealing soon :)
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#27Expensive, and good luck getting client trust back after what they did with App Engine.
What's wrong with GAE? Honest question, I was considering deploying my next project there
Take a look at the issues page for many of the top requests[1] as well as the included libraries for Python.[2] There are requests for python3 support, but also for pandas, scipy, etc.
GCE should be more flexible since it is providing infrastructure rather than the platform. However, depending on your project getting an entire platform from Google first could save you effort.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list?cursor=...
[2] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/li...
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#28For those planning "wow, I can use the google datacenters, to scale to such level", first check this part: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/resource-quotas Just in case.
In particular, see the form at the bottom to request more resources:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vb2MkAr9JcHrp6myQ3oTxCyBv2c...
Re: Google Cloud Compute Engine goes live
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like Amazon.com and AWS, Google.com doesn't share the same infrastructure as GCE. So while the employee experience and expertise may carry over, the infrastructure doesn't. EC2 had serious outages even though Amazon.com stayed up and running. And GCE only offers 3 data centers compared to the 13 that they have for their core. I'm not even sure the 3 they offer intersect with the 13. It's a new line of business, and e…
Google.com doesn't share the same infrastructure as GCE. This is not true
Can confirm; I'm a developer on the Cloud SQL team, which is in the same Product Area as GCE. When it says "Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure" it means it. The VMs run in the same data centers on the same hardware as other Google projects.