The new pricing announcement has put instance performance into the spotlight, and GAE comes out looking very bad compared to other cloud solutions*. My question is how can Google justify roughly equivalent pricing for a product that is 15-30 times less powerful? I'm happy to pay a margin for GAE's scalability and platform management, but I'd suggest that margin should be more like 50%, than 1500% to 3000%.
*An EC2 instance running Drupal can handle 45-60 requests a second. Because it's single-threaded, a GAE instance running Django can only handle 2-3 requests a second. I recommend that Google figures out how to do concurrent requests per instance before adopting an instance-hour pricing model, or else discounts the floated instance-hour price by at least 90%. Cheers Greg. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
