The greatest advantages of AppEngine are the ease of set-up, the scalability, and the fact that your application is available throughout the infrastructure that Google has built worldwide the moment you publish. If you need a python-based environment and are OK with the limitations of AE--proprietary non-relational datastore, some python libraries not available--it's a great way to get started. There's no cost while you're building your app, and if it's not a resource hog, you might even get to run it in production mode for free for some time.
But if you need finer-grain control over your environment, and you'd prefer the type of cloud system that allows you to spawn virtualized servers, then you may want to look into one of the other services. Amazon EC2 is a good one, and I've heard good things about SliceHost. Instead of a limited application environment, those services allow you to configure a virtual server which functionally is the same as a physical server, but which is running on a "cloud layer" in those companies' infrastructure. Personally, after years of administrating linux boxes, I'm thrilled to move what I can to systems like AppEngine. It's not the right solution for everything, though; neither are any of them. Your question about which is the best one is kind of like if you were going to build something and you asked, "What's the best tool? A hammer or a saw?" Depending on the job, you might need just one, just the other, or both. --BIC On Feb 24, 1:07 am, SANMI <ssa...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have an application and I would want to introduce it in Cloud Computing. > We have read a lot of things about Cloud Computing and theirs advantages. I > don't know if GAE is just a hosting which supports python environment or if > I could get all the advantages of Cloud Computing with GAE. > > I'm reading all the information of the differents actors of Cloud Computing > and I must choose one and introduce my application into. Anybody knows the > best application?? (Microsoft Azure, Intalio, Amazon...) > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---