My biggest complaint with Heroku is that they don't have a database offering between $15/month and $200/month.
This addition to app engine makes them more appealing than heroku at this point.
This addition to app engine makes them more appealing than heroku at this point.
The reservation fee for a small instance is $227.50 annually (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/) but you still pay an hourly rate to run it, albeit a lower rate than for a non-reserved instance. Running a small reserved instance for a year costs $227.50 + ($0.03 x 24 x 365) => $490.3/year or $40.86/month. (This is in the US East region.)
Pricing will be revealed later. But even if it ends up being a 'mess' like app engine's pricing situation, it should be much easier to move onto another platform.
Yeah. We know how well that went with GAE.