For a medium traffic website, I can only one amazon EC2 instance: "Large Instance 7.5 GB, 4 ECUs, 850 GB of local instance storage, 64- bit platform, $0.34 per hour" or "High-Memory Extra Large Instance, 17.1 GB, 6.5 ECUs, 420 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, $0.50 per hour" with self-installed memory cache and without using load balancer at all.
For the same computing power, I need at least 4 gae backends, which will cost more than 4 times money than ec2. And the storage price is less than half of gae. On Sep 2, 4:41 pm, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sep 3, 4:41 am, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > 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.
