I'm biased, naturally, but here's my piece: They're both great, young platforms, and successful businesses have been built on both Google App Engine as well as Amazon EC2. Amazon's lower level access appeals to some, whereas Google App Engine's abstractions appeal to the folks in this group.
Have you actually used EC2 before? If not, new accounts can sign up for a free "micro" instance. You'll want to check this out before you make any decisions. Since you're already looking at EC2, why not look at VPS solutions? I personally prefer a provider such as Slicehost or Linode to EC2 for anything I can't currently do on Google App Engine. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:59 PM, JY <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to ask fellow GAE users whether you think GAE is good choice to > build real business on? > I have used GAE for some personal projects, and right now help a > friend on a tiny start up (but with big dream). The project is related > to social network - I am thinking of two options: > 1, GAE > The benefits are obvious. However, it is also locking you in....you > don't have much control over it. If you are unhappy later, you will > have to redo the persistence layer and migrate data etc. > 2, EC2 > You have much more control, and if the start-up gets funding, it is > easy to migrate to dedicated hosting or even its own data center. The > down side is developer (me, and only me) will have to spend quite some > time to take care of the infrastructure (although I like this kind of > work...) > > I think my biggest concern of GAE is over the quality of service, and > the data-store - if I go EC2, I probably will use a NoSQL solution > like MogoDb, or Cassandra. The development efforts might be similar - > all products are sort of young, hot, and limited. > > Thanks. > > JY > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
