On Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:30:06 AM UTC-5, pdknsk wrote: > > Google Compute Engine added a new f1-micro instance which is only > $0.019/h but has 600MB RAM. In comparison, B1 backends with 128MB RAM > are $0.08/h currently. So for 4x the price you get 1/5 RAM.
To add in an anecdotal data point: The Compute Engine's f1-micro instances are FAST! Soon after Compute Engine went into general availability, I created and sshed into a f1-micro instance then ran a few tests (apt-get packages, download some files, etc). I was pleasantly surprised by how fast and responsive the machine was. It's much better than Amazon AWS' micro instance, which can only do bursty processing and just feels very anemic. It might be interesting - if anyone has an app that does a lot of backend work - to move that work onto a Compute Engine machine, and then open up additional backends if load spikes. On Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:26:19 AM UTC-5, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > Interesting that the datastore is now available from GCE. I suspect some > of the other services are on their way too. This may eventually become > much more like Gala vs Golden Delicious. > > If the GCE<->Datastore connection is fast, it makes migrating off of GAE > quite a lot easier. > When I was configuring my Compute Engine machine, I saw options to integrate into Task Queue and BigQuery. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see further services opened up such as the Search API. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL My Go side project: http://invalidmail.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
