I agree with most Nick said, especially on (2) and (3) Hi Greg,
Regarding your points made on "*(3) How can you justify your instance price when compared with Amazon EC2?*": We have been given up a lot on the power and flexibility for using GAE (e.g. 30 second limit, no socket support, no external SMTP for free email, no custom binary lib, no non-blocking runtime with python, etc etc). Given Google has full control on how the platform behaves (so on how our apps behave) and added so many limitations, I expect GAE to be cheaper than IAAS like AWS. Unfortunately its the other way around (also note that AWS is pretty expensive among all the IAAS out there). Of course you can charge for whatever you like, but I can hardly think anyone would be picking GAE in the future with such an uncompetitive pricing and added limitations, on such a unique environment that takes you months or years to adapt which you can take it nowhere else. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/xoYnQvOvUpgJ. 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.
