Google App Engine
Today Google released their new App Engine. This is seen as a direct competetor of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service started applications for accounts for developers tonight at 9:30. Some of the features of the service are:
- Comes with a SDK! - start developing even if you dont have an account yet!
- Develop applications in Python - now you know why Google is hiring so many devs with python exp ;)
- Free 500 MB of data and upto 5 million page views a month!
- Integration with other google services so authentication etc need not be developed if not so important(instead use google’s account or sth.)
But there are a few limitations too…
- A limit of 1000 results per query(do we need more then that anyway?)
- Only three applications in the preview period.
- Just python is supported for now
- Only 10000 accounts to be given initially! (Yes I got one already :)
It can certainly be called as a competitor to AWS but is yet to get all the features and take a full form… More updates on techcrunch
I look forward to do somehting with it soon… after 14th that is :)
Tags: AppEngine, cloud computing, Google
April 10th, 2008 at 4:49 am
seems like someones been busy but you still managed to get the early invite. Im on the wait list. The App Engine sounds good news but it comes with its restrictions, their choice of language, their choice of database and their platform and frameworks. But could be a good first step to a scalable web app.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I agree… There are certainly too many constraints right now to actually use the service for a enterprise setup. It ain’t very secure either. But I assume, google is going to provide more as with time.