I understand and also worry a little about the long-term roadmap for App Engine as a significant Google offering. AWS has a much larger community and with the addition of persistent storage and sorting of Query results, Amazon is rapidly shoring up their deficiencies. That said, the two services target different audiences since you still have to do a lot of infrastructure management to get something like App Engine on top of AWS. (Or you can pay RightScale or others to do it.)
Also, App Engine is significantly younger than AWS. Forum traffic and articles on Amazon EC2 was light at the beginning as well. IMHO, I think a lot of programmers are waiting for pay-as-you-go and possibly https. Beta AWS services start with pricing and charging at launch. EC2/SimpleDB programmers will be more self-selected than Google App Engine developers because you have to know the full stack (from OS on AMI on up). I can also see a lot of small development shops going the App Engine route because (1) free resources up to a certain point and (2) little infrastructure issues. I've been impressed with the Google App Engine team but also wonder how much support they can draw from Google. Jeff Bezos attends AWS events and provides a clear signal that they view AWS as a core offering. I think Yahoo management will do the same if Yahoo launches their version of App Engine. Having stars like GvR on the App Engine team sends a signal as well, but it's different than having top executives talk up the service. On Aug 27, 3:09 pm, javaDinosaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am starting to have doubts about continuing to develop my > applications for GAE. My concerns are not technical although I have a > some anxieties about transaction data propagation performance. > > My concerns center around Google’s commitment to the App Engine > project. Compared to Amazon’s Web Service forums this place feels like > a technical backwater. Developers hosting on Amazon AWS post > interesting questions and get deep-dive replies promptly from Amazon > staff. Amazon is releasing new Cloud development services monthly yet > all we get is minor patches. > > Here on the GAE forum elementary questions about how GAE ticks go > unanswered for months. Basic roadmap type info such as will we get SSL > or scheduled tasks is missing. > > I just feel that the GAE Team is not building up any development > stream in what should be the last 4 month run up to the year-end > release. Communication with the developer community here is abysmal > compared to the investment in developer relations made by companies > such as Microsoft, Redhat or Amazon. > > What’s happened to the early buzz Google? Has the top bass pinched > half the team to firefight problems on another project? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
