Talk about much ado about nothing.
If Google's limits are, somehow, a problem for you.. go get yourself some EC2 servers, or co-locate or.. a hundred other possible things.
If Google's limits are, somehow, a problem for you.. go get yourself some EC2 servers, or co-locate or.. a hundred other possible things.
Amazon (, promise of): We add resources faster than you can use them, kthxbye.
Google apps: Hit the once-in-a-lifetime really, really big one, and we'll be serving up 503's to your customers instead of writing invoices to you. Oh, and if it's sustained we might need you to spend critical time re-deploying to a different architecture.
Provided that you stay within the "free" quota, an AppEngine app can be developed/deployed for free.
One is more "hobbyist" than the other. S3/EC2 is used all over the place by professionals, whereas AppEngine has yet to to really achieve that same kind of ubiquity (in terms of developer mindshare).
Along these lines, it strikes me as odd how people that would want to run open-source software on their own computers are completely content with running closed web applications where they have no freedom and no control at all. It may be the same reason people are willing to pay for bottled tap-water: convenience - it seems to trump other factors (including ethics and morality) by far.
"Azure here I come."
(...I believe qualifies as one of "a hundred other possible things.")