This could come under ease of deployment, but I think a big advantage is "Abstracts away infrastructure".
If I wanted to make a web application normally, I would need to concern myself with patches for the OS and services, as well as availability. With PAAS, the provider deals with all of that, I only need to think about the application I am writing. J. ps.. Amazons current 'excitement' shows how the cloud can fall out of the sky and become more of a fog. On Apr 24, 3:32 am, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 07:31, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > > GAE is only cheap if you are small. You know Google is Marking up the > > service. If you are big enough all the peaks and valleys of traffic even > > out. > > Depends on your traffic patterns. I've seen a lot of apps who's > trafic peaks are very large and valleys very deep. At least on App > Engine you're not paying for massive amounts of idle capacity in off > hours -- it is more like always operating at capacity but knowing > (well, hoping) there will be more resources if needed. As for > cost-effectiveness, for some apps it is great and for others less so. > As usual, it all depends... > > > > > Cloud Solutions aren’t really trying to market to the types of users > > who even notice there is a free quota. > > > So no, I don’t think it is missing. > > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niklas Rosencrantz > > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 2:50 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [google-appengine] Advantages of GAE > > > Hi when reading the web2py manual I found they listed the advantages GAE > > has. These are mentioned like > > > Ease of deployment. > > Scalability. > > BigTable. > > > However I think that one large advantage is missing from this list namely > > the cost-effectiveness. Since we only pay for what we use otherwise > > expansive applications can get very cheap if they don't use a lot of > > bandwidth. > > > Do you agree? What do you think? > > > Cheers, > > Nick Rosencrantz > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en.
