I know its rather cliché but they really are apples to oranges. The GAE instance gives you more than a single VPS instance.
Most notably is the Free APIs. In effect you have free access to many things that probably cost you elsewhere. And they dont use the resources of your instance. eg on EC2 you pay extra for a Memcache instance (elasticache). GAE Instances have in effect a free Elastic Load Balancer (continuing the EC2 comparison) in front of your app. They have Cloudfront bundled in too (the edge-cache). The image manipulation API, is similar to running another gearman instance coordinating dedicated software for resizing iamges (again offloading your instance) And for the most part you still need a sysadmin to coordinate EC2. Its the old paas vs iaas argument. On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Tapir <tapir....@gmail.com> wrote: > Following I list the prices of main cloud hosting companies. > > Hi, googlers, I just want to ask you a simple question: what is the > reason you think you should charge pretty much with pretty less > resource provided? > > ============================================================================== > > App Engine backend price: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > B1 128MB 600MHz $0.08 per hour > B2 256MB 1.2GHz $0.16 per hour > B4 512MB 2.4GHz $0.32 per hour > B8 1024MB 4.8GHz $0.64 per hour > > On-demand Frontend Instances 24 Instance Hours $0.08 / hour > Reserved Frontend Instances $0.05 / hour > > ============================================================================== > > EC2 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Micro Instance: 613 MB, up to 2 ECUs (for short periodic bursts), > $0.02 per hour > Small Instance: 1.7 GB, 1 ECU, 160 GB of local instance storage, 32- > bit platform, $0.085 per hour > Large Instance 7.5 GB, 4 ECUs, 850 GB of local instance storage, 64- > bit platform, $0.34 per hour > Extra Large Instance 15 GB, 8 ECUs, 1690 GB of local instance storage, > 64-bit platform, $0.68 per hour > High-Memory Extra Large Instance, 17.1 GB, 6.5 ECUs, 420 GB of local > instance storage, 64-bit platform, $0.50 per hour > High-CPU Medium Instance 1.7 GB,, 5 ECUs, 350 GB of local instance > storage, 32-bit platform, $0.17 per hour > > (comment: one ECU provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 > GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.) > > ============================================================================== > > Azure > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Extra Small 768 MB 1.0 GHz 20 GB Instance Storage $0.05 > Small 1.75 GB 1.6 GHz 225 GB Instance Storage $0.12 > Medium 3.5 GB 2 x 1.6 GHz 490 GB Instance Storage $0.24 > Large 7 GB 4 x 1.6 GHz 1,000 GB Instance Storage High $0.48 > Extra Large 14 GB 8 x 1.6 GHz 2,040 GB Instance Storage $0.96 > > ============================================================================== > > Rackspace > ----------------------------------------------------------- > 256MB RAM 10GB Disk $0.015/hr. > 512MB RAM 20GB Disk $0.03/hr. > 1,024MB RAM 40GB Disk $0.06/hr. > 2,048MB RAM 80GB Disk $0.12/hr. > 4,096MB RAM 160GB Disk $0.24/hr. > 8,192MB RAM 320GB Disk $0.48/hr. > 15,872MB RAM 620GB Disk $0.96/hr. > > (CPU configures are not unknown) > > -- > 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.
