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Google App Engine is a platform for building and hosting Web applications on Google's infrastructure. The service was launched in beta in April 2008, and offers users access to free acounts with certain technical limits on the apps they build: 500 GB persistent storage, and enough CPU for approximately 5 million pageviews per month. Google App Engine is designed to automatically scale computing resources to meet the demand of your Web application, however, in its preview release errors will occur if your load exceeds your quota.
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Pros
- Turns up-front fixed server costs into lesser variable costs
- Pay-only for what you use
- Deploy servers using software - save tons of time
Cons
- Can be more expensive on the small scale
- A learning curve to grasping the cloud computing concept
- Only two 32-bit server options - high-CPU not that powerful
Google App Engine
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Pros
- competing against Amazon leads to better costs for end users
- allows businesses to focus on their online services and content without worrying about hardware or software
- easy way to cut overhead costs, and scale without need for much notice
Cons
- end user cost will not be significantly lower, control will be restricted
- vapourwear - most exciting features are those most likely to be stripped by the end product
Google App Engine
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Microsoft Windows Azure
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December 22, 2008
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- Powered by the same computing power as Google's own apps
- Free service up to 5 million pageviews
- Zero startup costs to developing a web app (albeit if you have skills)
- Automatically scalable Web hosting solution
Cons
- Errors will be output if you exceed usage quotas
- Limited to Python for your development language and "Datastore" / "GQL" for your Database interactions
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- Powered by the same computing power as Google's own apps
- Free service up to 5 million pageviews
- Zero startup costs to developing a web app (albeit if you have skills)
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- Limited to Python or Java and Google's proprietary database interface
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