On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:37, phraktle <phrak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'll see you on Thursday! > On first glance, the new pricing definitely makes AppEngine significantly > less competitive - and it's quite a disappointing jump from the prior > pricing. For one app we run, the charges will go up from the current > $0.30/day to $11/day - and that's with the 50% discount, so it'll actually > be around $20/day. That's almost two orders of magnitude more expensive than > previously! > Being priced by actual CPU usage (rather than instance hours which include > idle time) was a great advantage of AppEngine. The policy for idle time is > largely controlled by GAE (as, in my opinion, it should be), however this > mechanism is not efficient right now. For ~300 instance hours, we have > clocked only 6.5 hours of actual CPU usage. If this ratio would go from 2% > to closer to 50%, I'd be happy with the new pricing. I think the current > scaling mechanism is broken - we see instances with the same uptime (eg. 4 > hours), but an order of magnitude different numbers of requests served (120 > vs 1200). The fact that the scaling mechanism is not efficient was > previously not a concern for us (it was a concern for Google).
I completely agree with this. Previously, it was of no concern to me how the instances were allocated as long as my trafic was served. Completely not the case now. > Now the pricing model is directly comparable to AWS, and it's not even > favorable anymore. The more flexible architecture of AWS provides more > choices for achieving high efficiency with less instances - we have full > control over usage and scaling. We have migrated some apps from GAE to AWS > previously due to Datastore write latencies, and with the new pricing > there's one less "pro" for GAE. > Regards, > Viktor > > -- > 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/-/Swo6OTdoi8MJ. > 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.
