Amazon does something like this for its excess capacity: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/
...but it's just for excess capacity. I wouldn't want this kind of behavior for my core usage because it would make my bill highly unpredictable. And it does not incentivize Google to add more resources to the cluster. Jeff On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM, gk <goran.kar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Pricing should be as follows: > > Calculate a price of resources using the demand / availability of > those resources in the cloud: > > - if Google has more of resource X than users demand, the price for > that resource would go down and free quota up. > - if users demand more of resource X than Google has, the price for > that resource would go up and free quota down. > > > Pricing model: > > GAE users would act as buyers and resources in the cloud as suppliers. > > - Suppliers (resources producers in the cloud) set the price of the > resource above the current market price. > - Supplier decreases the price until resource is sold - but a supplier > nevers sells under the price of (production cost + Google profit > margin). > - Google continously "buys" certain amounts of the resource and > declares it to be a "shared good" - that is the free quota for each > App Engine. > > Users act as buyers and buy using a model of their own choice. > > - Some would never buy any resource - but want to use free quota. > - Some would spend $ in a month / week / day / hour / minute / second > on a specific resource. > - Some would spend $ in a month / week / day / hour / minute / second > on any resource. > - Some would spend $ in a month / week / day / hour / minute / second > on all resources. > - Some would buy whenever the price is under $ > - Some would buy certain amounts in a given time period. > - Some would always buy the resource. > > In this way the GAE users can buy according to their need (production > cost, if any + profit margin, if any). > > Is this not the logical solution for the "pricing problem"? > > Mix this with a "Market for App Engine Apps" and BOOM :-) > > -- > 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 google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
