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). 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.
