On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Stephen Deasey <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
...except that Google seems to be abandoning that model and taking a more IaaS-oriented pricing structure :-( > 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. ...except that unless you are using Java (threaded) you can't be scheduled efficiently at all, and it appears that GAE has been running at a loss all this time :-( > For the bits you can compare with the other providers such as > commodity bulk storage and compute (backends), App Engine compares > pretty badly. Agreed. Jeff -- 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.
