> I think the scaling issue here is understated. Compared to traditional > scaling strategies that organizations use to perform, GAE provides > alot of transparency. The premise of GAE is to put focus on > development of applications. Thus, GAE is more developer focused. EC2 > is a more general solution. Furthermore, I imagine instantiating more > VMs is a form of network administration that doesn't exist in GAE ...
I wouldn't assume this yet, as I'm sure you'll have to perform some sort of verification/configuration to 'scale up' with GAE also. Google likely wont just let your app spike though all the funds in your bank account - you'll have to login to some kind of console to configure how much resources you want to pay for. EC2 has the same thing basically - you just go to a web page and control how many instances are running. > unless your application is so advanced that it comes with logic to > efficiently instantiate and shutdown VMs on its own. There are already free utilities that do this with EC2 it seems. > > On Nov 4, 11:20 am, sal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > EC2 also has a lot other usage than hosting a web site. You can use it > > > for scientific computing, video transcoding, data mining and etc. > > > I agree - you have a little more freedom / computing power / resources > > than you do with GAE, and its pretty cheap. A quick lookthrough on > > Amazon's site shows EC2's lowend costing $0.10 per hour (ten cents an > > hour) to use. And you can shut it down/start it up whenever you want > > so you don't incur much cost while 'playing around' in the beginning. > > > I did like being able to 'dive in' to GAE just using my Google login > > and start playing around - but EC2 seems more practical for real world > > use yet. There needs to be more to make GAE something viable... or > > maybe Google's not really aiming to compete on the 'high end' cloud > > computing arena, more just to give a place for people to create Google > > Gadgets? (In that case it should be named 'Google Gadget Engine'!!) > > But I don't think that's the case, I must be missing something =) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
