I banked on everything costing 50-100% more. (1.5-2x) that’s what “Beta” kind of means. I currently trust that Google won’t price themselves out of the market, and GAE will be on par with EC2/AWS or Rackspace Cloud. But I expect that with GAE there will be less hands on knowledge of the operating environment needed so at same pricing I can win on administration costs.
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* How many instances will I need to service N requests per second?
* Will that number change significantly because of things out of my
control like running on a hot server?
* What datastore operations will cost how much?
I'm not surprised by a price increase - hell, I'm surprised it took
this long to materialize. I don't love the new structure though, it
seems harder than ever to figure out what my application is going to
cost. I would personally rather that Google kept the pay-for-cpu-ms
approach (even if it's largely a bunch of magic numbers) and just
increase the price to whatever is "sustainable".
I *am* a little worried about Google pricing themselves out of the
(read: my) market. Presumably they want to capture as much revenue as
possible from the folks with high monetization-per-request traffic
like Best Buy and WebFiling, but there is no longer a separate "App
Engine for Business" offering to segment the market. If GAE is priced
efficiently (in a purely economic sense), it could very well be too
high to accomodate those of us squeaking by with freemium or
advertising-based businesses. This is somewhat ironic since one of
the things that makes GAE great is that it scales out to "fad facebook
app of the week" traffic so easily.
I fear that there isn't enough competitive pressure on the price -
Google really could charge whatever the market will bear, and some
parts of the market will probably be willing to bear quite a lot.
Unfortunately nobody else has a PaaS product that comes even close to
measuring up. My sincere hope is that Amazon makes Elastic Beanstalk
a much better product than it currently is, not because I want to use
it, but because I want Google to feel less certain that they can
charge a premium rate. (Sorry Google, I hope we can still be friends)
Incidentally, I migrated off of GAE Backends (formerly "servers")
post-beta because the announced price is 6X (that's s-i-x) the
comparable equivalent from Amazon or Rackspace. I don't have a
strategy for migrating off GAE Frontends because there is no
comparable equivalent anywhere :-(
Jeff
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Martin Webb
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Hard to believe that they (Google) had many people (paying customers)
clamoring for changes to the existing billing model (as they seem to
suggest in the blog post) !!
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