Richard, I haven't used Amazon SNS but from what I understand it not quite the same. Beacon Push is specifically for browser based real-time apps, using HTML5 WebSockets (and falling back on flash I believe) to push real-time JSON messages to connected users browsers. Amazon SNS seems to be more of a general backend service for powering cross platform notifications, not specifically for a browser as the client.
Like PubNub, channels in beacon push are just specified by a string and can be generated on the fly. On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Richard Arrano wrote: > Thanks Martin, that looks like a great alternative. Do you know > anything about Amazon's SNS? Is it applicable as a Channel replacement > or am I misunderstanding it? Either way, looks like a good way to > replace the now extremely expensive Channel API. Google appears to be > pricing themselves out of the cloud computing business. And I agree > with the views of a poster in another thread who mentioned that > working with App Engine and their changing models is like trying to > hit a moving target. Developers can't and won't spend all their time > reworking their applications to avoid incurring huge charges when > Google changes pricing around. > > Thanks, > Richard > > On Aug 31, 7:51 pm, Martin Ceperley <mar...@ceperley.com> wrote: >> Richard, a good alternative to the Channel API is Beacon Push >> (http://beaconpush.com/) we have been using it and it's dead simple and >> works flawlessly. It supports broadcast messaging (with channel API does not >> out of the box) as well as per-user messaging. Also extremely affordable, 3 >> million messages for $3.29. >> >> -Martin >> >> On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Richard Arrano wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> I'll be leaving if some of the prices aren't tweaked, particularly the >>> channels. I was banking on being able to use a large amount of >>> channels, likely in the thousands per day. I did a double take when I >>> realized the new price was per hundred rather than per thousand, >>> particularly when channels expire after two hours and need to be re- >>> created. Does anyone have a good alternative to the Channel API using >>> Amazon's solutions? >> >>> -Richard >> >>> On Aug 31, 6:05 pm, "Raymond C." <windz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I am not asking who is not happy with the new pricing (virtually most of >>>> GAE >>>> users). >> >>>> I am just asking who is FORCED to leave GAE because you cannot afford to >>>> keep running on GAE under the new pricing model. Please (if possible) >>>> state >>>> the monthly price change as well. >> >>>> And what options you are considering? >> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> athttp://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 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. > -- 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.
