I am currently looking into developing a large application either on App Engine or virtual machines like Amazon EC2. I am wondering how well does the App Engine scale in comparison to Amazon?
The application I have in mind needs to be storing over 20GB of indexed data of small real-time records (usually 10-100kB), be able to retrieve that information quickly and be able to scale up to a large amount of traffic. Here is an example of a service similar to what we are aiming to develop - https://blockchain.info/ . Since the project is still in early development, there is no preference for one platform over the other - we are still hiring developers, so we can hire ones that can develop for App Engine or Amazon. I am more concerned about the long-term advantages and disadvantages of choosing one option over the other. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
