I know that 20 cents a day is peanuts, but an increase from $ 0.2 to $ 8 a day for my app is just too high.
My app consists of bursts of messages in the queue that I want to be processed as fast as possible. I could just set the rate to 100/s and never look back at it. Now I need to disable my queue concurrency to avoid many instances running. Like others in this thread, I thought the new billing wouldn't be as bad as expected. I'm now trying java multi-threading again (hoping this issue is magically fixed: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4834) and see if that helps (I still see 5 instances running now). I use Java and moved from EC2 to App Engine so I wouldn't have to worry about peaks and adding more servers (that was before Elastic Load Balancing and Autoscaling was introduced). Also, I didn't want to bother with OS updates but want to focus on what I'm good at (development). I'm willing to pay more for that ease of mind. For me the strong point of App Engine is the ease of deploying/upgrading my apps. EC2 provides better flexibility for controlling scaling, cdn, messaging and even a scalable simpledb, but at a much higher operational cost for me. It's easier as a developer when the App Engine team has already decided for me on which platform, database, memcache, queue, ... to use. The learning curve was sometimes steep (transactions for entities with different parents) but I'll try to remember this as a good way of learning to create scalable sites. The strong point of app engine (I didn't have to care about the number of servers which makes it a real cloud solution) has gone with the new pricing. EC2 micro instances are just $ 0.02 and give me 613 MB. I already refactored my site for App Engine so each server can die at any moment, so why wouldn't I go to EC2 (simpledb, elasticache) now? One of my clients asked me to create a (big) site on App Engine based on my advocacy, I will probably need to rethink that decision. Sorry for the hard work of the App Engine team, but I'm really disappointed here. (and apologies for the not so short answer) -- 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.
