Hi Sean, You still need to have billing enabled in order to use blobstore. Once App Engine goes out of preview both free and paid apps will be able to use blobstore. We'll be going out of preview before the end of the year but don't have a specific date to announce just yet.
Thanks! Greg On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Sean Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the Blobstore API still require billing to be enabled to be used? > Based on the quota docs, it does: > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Blobstore > > But there is no mention of it on the Blobstore pages: > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html > > Also, I saw mention that the Blobstore will be free (up to 5G) under the > new billing model. When will this take effect? > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/VCYbRH4WWBI/mQKSo1tRzfEJ > > I'm currently working on a new Google Apps / App Engine site for a > customer, and needed to notify them whether they needed to enable billing > (it's low traffic, and thus hadn't planned on it up to this point). > > Thanks, > Sean > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/CrxFAAHjoFkJ. > 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?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en.
