Even though $9/month is pretty insignificant to many of us because 1. It is a fixed cost 2. It is small
We still should not gloss over it. Like Stephen said, this is really just a tax for the privilege of using blob-store and other billing-enabled services. Having said that, I reckon that this is Google's attempt to streamline their business package (which they are doing away with) by saying that anyone that needs higher level services will pay a per-app or per-account cost. In that light, it becomes more palatable (as it simplifies the offering), and I for one am okay with that. I think the bigger concern is the per-instance cost. This is especially troubling for 1. folks that depend on the always-on features in java. 2. folks in Python or the new GO runtime that don't as yet have concurrent request support. More instances will be spun dynamically with a consequential cost to them which is expected to be significant). Hopefully, the new scheduler will iron out a lot of these unknowns so we're back to being happy app-engine users. Right now, it seems we're the only ones in the whole Google Ecosystem that's unhappy with some of the recent announcements. Actually, scratch that - I'm very happy for 2 things: - GO language runtime support (the geek in me is just thrilled) - Moving away from Preview status (I was always concerned about the life of GAE beyond the promised 3 years support post EOL. This removes my fears). -- 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.
