Users who need a highly predictable bill could pre-allocate X
resources for $ ("special deal" like $9 / month). It tells the
supplier: produce this much at a given future date for the now agreed
price. Supplier profits from planing stability, buyer profits from
price and supply stability.Incentive for Google is profit ;-) If Google allows price inflation on scarce resources users will buy less. If they add resources they can sell more and profit more. Price stability should not be a big problem due to the distributive nature of the cloud. On Sep 10, 8:44 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Amazon does something like this for its excess capacity: > > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/ > > ...but it's just for excess capacity. I wouldn't want this kind of > behavior for my core usage because it would make my bill highly > unpredictable. And it does not incentivize Google to add more > resources to the cluster. > > Jeff > > > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM, gk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pricing should be as follows: > > > Calculate a price of resources using the demand / availability of > > those resources in the cloud: > > > - if Google has more of resource X than users demand, the price for > > that resource would go down and free quota up. > > - if users demand more of resource X than Google has, the price for > > that resource would go up and free quota down. > > > Pricing model: > > > GAE users would act as buyers and resources in the cloud as suppliers. > > > - Suppliers (resources producers in the cloud) set the price of the > > resource above the current market price. > > - Supplier decreases the price until resource is sold - but a supplier > > nevers sells under the price of (production cost + Google profit > > margin). > > - Google continously "buys" certain amounts of the resource and > > declares it to be a "shared good" - that is the free quota for each > > App Engine. > > > Users act as buyers and buy using a model of their own choice. > > > - Some would never buy any resource - but want to use free quota. > > - Some would spend $ in a month / week / day / hour / minute / second > > on a specific resource. > > - Some would spend $ in a month / week / day / hour / minute / second > > on any resource. > > - Some would spend $ in a month / week / day / hour / minute / second > > on all resources. > > - Some would buy whenever the price is under $ > > - Some would buy certain amounts in a given time period. > > - Some would always buy the resource. > > > In this way the GAE users can buy according to their need (production > > cost, if any + profit margin, if any). > > > Is this not the logical solution for the "pricing problem"? > > > Mix this with a "Market for App Engine Apps" and BOOM :-) > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine for Java" 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" 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-java?hl=en.
