Couldn't agree more. When I chose GAE as my cloud platform I chose it because it was the only solution on the market that offered the CPU hours billing - you pay only for what you use. THIS was the killer feature that made it stand out and what made made me advocate GAE for years on different forums.
However, as of today if I started a new project to be hosted in the cloud this is not the case: Google is adopting the same virtual machine model than Amazon and Azure and the price is much easier to compare as the only additional thing you're providing is automatic spinning and killing of instances and a java / python environment. I think it's much harder to justify the 4x cost difference for an instance with the 1/4th of memory, basically bringing it to a 16 times more expensive pricing vs Amazon. I'm not sure how this is priced by the market, perhaps running a web app with 50K visitors and 1M hits a day with occasional spikes isn't your target market - if this was the pricing two years ago when I built my app I would surely not have chosen GAE. However I probably don't know your target market as well as the GAE team and there probably is a mass who's happy to pay the 16x price difference more for these extra services. -- 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/-/VnrVjK7iKfIJ. 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.
