One other interesting thought is that people often justify the higher price with the stability of GAE and that Google takes care of running your system and you dont have to carry a pager. The flaw with this justification is, that if my app would cost $50'000 a month on AppEngine and $20'000 somewhere else, I would run it somewhere else! For the extra $30'000 i would save, i could hire 2 really great Site Reliability Engineers that take care of running the system and make the experience for my developers just as good as GAE's. Many people have made systems scale outside of AppEngine, which is for an experienced engineer as hard as adopting to GAEs limitations. So I'm wondering who Google targets at the moment with AppEngine. For people that really think big, GAE might not be the choice anymore. And Amazon is really taking the market these days.
I truly hope that one day GAE is so competitive that it takes the market as much as EC2 is taking it now. From my point of view, the pricing changes were a huge set back (maybe it was a success for Google's Business side), but I'm positive that sometime in the future GAE will become more competitive again. Cheers, A big GAE-Lover On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Leandro Rezende <[email protected]>wrote: > run as u can =P > > > 2012/1/5 Shane Elbo <[email protected]> > >> I've just started to learn about GAE. Should I go for this strategy >> instead of full rely on GAE? >> >> -- >> 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/-/f0eK3bnZZJYJ. >> >> 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.
