On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > As an amateur economist, look at the price signaling from Azure, > Linode, Slicehost, Rackspace, Prgmr, and now Appengine. They all > charge by RAM and wall-clock time, not CPU time. EC2 (the eldest) > seems to be the only exception, and even their CPU time pricing is > fairly rudimentary (discrete levels).
For the most part, you can't compare the other providers with App Engine because they are providing a generic service for which the unit of granularity is by necessity the virtual machine. App Engine's restricted service allowed it to provide extremely granular accounting. The world can't run on App Engine alone, but if you conform to it's model your app can be scheduled efficiently on the world's most advanced hosting infrastructure, at profit for Google, today. For the bits you can compare with the other providers such as commodity bulk storage and compute (backends), App Engine compares pretty badly. -- 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.
